In 1969, Internet Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Howard Frank co-wrote a proposal to design the network structure for the ARPAnet.
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Queen Sends Out Her First Tweet
In commenting on the Queen’s first Tweet, sent on October 24, the ABC News show, “This Week with George Stephanopolus,” asks if we know when she sent her first email.
Holodecks, Satellites and the Semantic Web: Five Innovators Foresee the Internet’s Future
The Internet is a moving target, constantly changing and evolving. As I contemplate its likely trajectory over the next 10 years, I hope whatever form it takes, it continues to exhibit the original values we established in its earliest years.
Frank Heart
Heart, working at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) in 1968, led the small group of unusually talented BBN staff that bid on and won a contract to build Interface Message Processors (routers) for an expandable, four-node network.
Using Mobile Technology to Help Folks Survive Cyclones, Tsunamis and Political Disasters
Today, as professor of computer science at the Asian Institute of Technology and director of its Internet Education and Research Lab, Internet Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Kanchana Kanchansut is concentrating on advancing mobile technology.
Ida Holz
In the early 1990s, Ida Holz helped lead the group of computing pioneers whose efforts resulted in the development of the first networks of what has become the Internet in Latin America.
Glenn Ricart
Glenn Ricart set up the first Internet Exchange point in 1988. Located in College Park, Maryland, it connected the original federal TCP/IP networks and the first U.S. commercial and non-commercial Internet networks. Later he helped extend that interconnection point to a Washington metropolitan area Ethernet called MAE-East.
Say Bonjour to the Internet’s Long-Lost French Uncle
The Internet was built on TCP/IP, networking protocols originally created by American computer scientists Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. But Cerf and Kahn were building on the work of Louis Pouzin.
How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet
Peter Kirstein is the man who put the Queen of England on the Internet in 1976.
Remembering Jon Postel — And the Day He Redirected the Internet
One January day in 1998, Jon Postel emailed eight of the 12 organizations that handled the address books for the entire internet.
IMP Network Grows
Fifteen nodes (23 hosts) comprise the IMP network.
Leonard Kleinrock, the TX-2 and the Seeds of the Internet
It was 4:00 in the morning, and Leonard Kleinrock was sitting inside MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, hunched in front of a massive computer system known as the TX-2.
