All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985.
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet
Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born. The date was Oct. 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles.
Leonard Kleinrock
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet. For his enormous contribution to understanding the power of packet networks he was honored with the Charles Stark Draper Award as one of the fathers of the Internet, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Larry Roberts.
Peter Kirstein
In the early 70s, Professor Kirstein started the first European ARPANET node with transatlantic IP connectivity, and has been involved ever since with European and transatlantic collaborations on IP networking research.
Official Biography: Peter Kirstein
In the early 70s, Professor Kirstein started the first European ARPANET node with transatlantic IP connectivity, and has been involved ever since with European and transatlantic collaborations on IP networking research. Most of the collaborations have been with both industrial and academic partners. Amongst these activities are developments in multimedia, network management, directory and security […]
Official Biography: Paul Baran
Paul Baran was born on April 29, 1926 in Grodno, Poland (now USSR). He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University in 1949, and an M.S. in Engineering (Computers) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1959. In 1949, Mr. Baran joined the Eckert-Mauchley Computer Company, where he was a technician on […]
Tin Wee Tan
Dr. Tin Wee Tan, an Internet pioneer in Singapore, founded the multilingual Internet domain name system and has been instrumental in its internationalization.





