Tue
May 15 2012
10:07 am
Inaugural Internet Hall of Fame
By: bizgrrl

The Internet Society in the first Internet Hall of Fame induction recognized Internet leaders from nine different countries, including one Nobel Prize Winner, one Royal Knight and two Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, Lawrence Roberts, and Robert Kahn are some of the Internet founders included in the Internet Society Pioneers Circle.

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R. Neal's picture

And Al Gore!

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2012/05/15 - 10:54am.

And Al Gore!

Somebody's picture

Maybe this will begin to put

Submitted by Somebody on Tue, 2012/05/15 - 4:58pm.

Maybe this will begin to put to rest the old "Al Gore claims he invented the internet" canard.

Andy Axel's picture

No Bob Metcalfe?

Submitted by Andy Axel on Tue, 2012/05/15 - 8:45pm.

No Bob Metcalfe?

bizgrrl's picture

He gets a mention in the

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 2012/05/16 - 5:08am.

He gets a mention in the discussion, A Brief History of the Internet.

Widespread development of LANS, PCs and workstations in the 1980s allowed the nascent Internet to flourish. Ethernet technology, developed by Bob Metcalfe at Xerox PARC in 1973, is now probably the dominant network technology in the Internet and PCs and workstations the dominant computers.

R. Neal's picture

WhitesCreek says...

Submitted by R. Neal on Wed, 2012/05/16 - 9:47am.

Al Gore, Inductee Internet Hall of Fame (Waiting for the Republican Apology...Still Waiting...)

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