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The Magic Box and the Spanning Tree: Radia Perlman Profiled in Hidden Heroes Series
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Radia Perlman is considered by many to be one of the most critical individuals in the development of certain network protocols and algorithms that still support how the Internet we know today functions. In...
MoreBringing High-speed Internet to More Americans
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For one Internet Hall of Fame inductee, access to universal broadband is a need on par with the right to clean water. 2013 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Henning Schulzrinne co-developed the...
MoreTim Berners-Lee's Digital Identity Solutions
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The United Kingdom’s Government Digital Services (GDS) is considering turning to an Internet Hall of Fame inductee to help provide its citizens greater control over their personal data when accessing online personal services. As part of its efforts to develop a new digital identity system, GDS is...
MoreWhen Tim Berners-Lee switched on the first World Wide Web server
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Thirty years ago, the World Wide Web was in its infancy. In a retrospective piece for ...
MoreTim Berners-Lee Sells an NFT of the World Wide Web Source Code
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Apparently you can put a price on history. Tim Berners-Lee, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame’s inaugural class, recently auctioned off a copy of the original source code for the World Wide Web as a non-fungible token. After adding in auction fees, the package sold for $5.4 million, with the...
MoreJimmy Wales on Capturing Bias In the Age of AI
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According to its founder, Wikipedia is not relying on artificial intelligence to check its community-created content for bias. A 2013 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Jimmy Wales is the founder of...
MoreCOVID-19 UNVEILED WHY CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IS SO VITAL
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The digital divide may have existed before the pandemic but the COVID-19 environment has exacerbated the issue, mainly for low-income households and people of color. School shutdowns led to more Black, Hispanic, and low-income students dropping out, losing up to a year of learning. Additionally...
MoreBack When Email Was Special
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Email was one of the most vital technologies to emerge from the 1970s. Electronic mail or “network mail” as it was known at the time, was invented by ...
MoreThirty Years of Web Browsing
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Thirty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee released the WorldWideWeb browser, unleashing the power of the Internet. Part of the Internet Hall of Fame’s inaugural class,...
MoreNew Berners-Lee Startup Moves Internet Towards "The Web I Originally Wanted"
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Citing concerns about data privacy, Tim Berners-Lee is attempting to overhaul his creation. Part of the Internet Hall of Fame’s inaugural class, Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web and wrote the...
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