2013 Awards Ceremony

The 2013 Internet Hall of Fame inductees will be announced in Istanbul, Turkey in a ceremony at the conclusion of the Internet Society’s INET Istanbul conference on 26 June.  Global business, policy, and technology leaders will gather to examine key...

2013 ADVISORY BOARD

We want to welcome this year’s distinguished international panel of Advisory Board members. The Advisory Board plays a critical role in selecting the inductees for the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame.  The board is comprised of highly qualified experts from industry-related areas including computer scientists, software engineers, Internet developers, historians, executives, authors, researchers, analysts and journalists.

In THEIR own WORDS

Larry Landweber: At Play in the Lab of the World

The 1980s were a time of all-out enthusiasm on the part of brilliant computer-science researchers who saw amazing possibilities for changing the world. Larry Landweber brought them all together, setting off an explosion of synergy that resulted in the Internet we know today.

HISTORY in the MAKING

Our Internet Hall of Fame Timeline maps inductees’ defining moments in Internet history.

1961

Inductee Charles Herzfeld (center, in white shirt) and other military researchers visit the Kwajalein Atoll.  Processing the vast amounts of data generated by the Defense Department would help lead to the creation of ARPANET, the backbone of the Internet. 

 

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