Tagged with Hall Of Fame Highlights
How One University’s Networking 'Mistake' Sparked the U.S. Internet
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Thirty years ago, a visionary effort by Dr. Glenn Ricart to interconnect the computer networks of all the departments at the University of Maryland, College Park, wasn’t very well received. It was the first time computer networks on a college campus had been “interconnected,” and while this may...
MoreFour Great Sources of Internet History
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In our modern, fast-paced world of e-commerce, smartphones and social media, it’s hard to imagine – or remember – life without the Internet. In reality, it took half a century of hard work and innovation to bring the Internet about, with contributions from a global network of individuals,...
MoreInductee Gihan Dias Recalls Birth, Growth of Sri Lankan Internet
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It takes a community. Especially when bringing the Internet to an entire nation. At the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Berlin, Germany, Gihan Dias recalled the introduction of the Internet to Sri Lanka, his native country, underscoring that it was a labor of love undertaken by an...
MoreHoward Frank Looks Back on His Role as an ARPAnet Designer
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In 1969, Internet Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Howard Frank co-wrote a proposal to design the network structure for the ARPAnet. He didn’t know it at the time, but this work would cement his role in Internet history. Dr. Frank spoke recently with the Internet Hall of Fame about that project, his work...
MoreVint Cerf: IoT Likely to Fuel Next Gen Internet Hall of Fame Inductees
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One thing is clear. The Internet has improved because smartphones are able to provide access from almost anywhere, and this technology is likely to fuel a new class of Internet Hall of Fame inductees at some point in the future, according to inductee and TCP/IP co-inventor...
MoreSubject: Thank You Ray
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As news of Ray Tomlinson’s untimely passing reverberates across an Internet that he helped to create, the Internet Hall of Fame wanted to take some time to share its memories of Ray and his groundbreaking contributions to the way we communicate. In 2012, when Ray was inducted into the Internet Hall...
MorePaul Vixie: Internet Privacy Is a “Moving, Multidimensional Target”
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‘Is the solution to solving Internet privacy technological, social or political?’ This is the question the Internet Hall of Fame posed to inductee Paul Vixie in a conversation that – appropriately enough – coincided with Privacy Day January 28. Dr. Vixie is no newcomer to the privacy issue. He is...
MoreUntold Internet: Anyone Can Help Establish Standards
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One of the most interesting historical features of the Internet is that the protocols were—and still are—free and open to anyone to build upon. Anyone with a good idea was (and is) encouraged to make suggestions for new or improved Internet protocols. One of the key ways this happens is through the...
MoreUntold Internet: The Internet-OSI Standards Wars
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The 1973 paper by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn describing TCP/IP represented the start of the ‘Internet Age.’ By 1987, key developments in the U.S. planted seeds for the global Internet: adoption of TCP/IP by the ARPANET, and two TCP/IP-based, National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded community networks....
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