Tagged with Inductee Profiles & Insights
Why Craig Newmark Sits at the Top and Bottom of Craigslist
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Craig Newmark calls his recent induction into the Internet Hall of Fame for building Craigslist a “clerical error.” If it were (and it most definitely is not), there would be a certain symmetry to it. Errors, or happy accidents, have a way of finding the eccentric technologist. Newmark’s eponymous...
MoreFather of Australian Internet Warns of Address Crunch
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Geoff Huston, the gadfly who got Australia online, warns that address shortage could strangle the Internet. Geoff Huston was born the year television arrived in Australia. But his parents wouldn’t let him watch....
MoreNancy Hafkin Brought Internet to Africa, Now She’s Tackling Tech Gender Divide
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Before Nancy Hafkin came along, Internet in Africa hardly existed. From the late 1980s until 2000, Hafkin worked for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the branch of the United Nations focused on economic development in all countries in Africa. While working in Ethiopia,...
MoreAsian Internet Traces Roots To Kilnam Chon
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Kilnam Chon brought the internet to Asia. And you’d have to say the move was successful. In South Korea — where Chon led a research team that installed the first two nodes on Asia’s first internet protocol network — broadband connections are used in over...
MoreBefore Google and GoDaddy, There Was Elizabeth Feinler
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Before GoDaddy and Network Solutions and VeriSign, there was Elizabeth Feinler and the NIC. From 1972 to 1989, Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler ran the Network Information Center at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California — the place that oversaw the use of internet addresses before the...
MoreBerners-Lee: World Finally Realizes Web Belongs to No One
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the reason you’re reading this story in a web browser, complete with hypertext and an internet address that looks like this: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/sir-tim-...
MoreVan Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown in 1980s
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All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985. The internet wasn’t yet called the internet. It was called the ARPAnet, and it had only recently been upgraded to the TCP/IP protocol that still underpins the internet today. Jacobson was teaching...
MoreMeet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet
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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. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the U.S. Department of Defense–...
MoreUnrepentant Hippie and World Networker Randy Bush Enters Net’s Hall of Fame
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The network doesn’t spread itself. Humans have to do it. And Randy Bush, a longtime network engineer, has been spreading the internet around the world since the 1980s on his free time, something he considers to be an extension of the radical and progressive politics of his parents and grandparents...
MoreMozilla's Mitchell Baker on Being the Alternative to Microsoft, Google and Apple
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Fourteen years ago, as a lawyer for Netscape, Mitchell Baker created the open source license that made Netscape’s code free. It was a fateful event for both Baker and the web: Baker ended up leading a small skunkworks project called Mozilla that was eventually spun out into a standalone foundation...
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