Great list, can't help but feel they're inducting too many for just a single year though. Going to run out of genuine entries sharpish if they keep on that road.
Internet's first 'Hall of Fame' REVEALED
The Internet Society has announced its inaugural Internet Hall of Fame featuring web stars who've helped literally make the internet. Publication of the list, which will become an annual event, has seen the likes of TCP/IP daddy Vint Cerf inducted alongside Van Jacobson who helped make TCP/IP scale and prevent the web’s …
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Thursday 26th April 2012 06:46 GMT MacroRodent
The power of Shambolic
> Seeing the shambolic way the WWW turned out I would have expected scientists to devise a more logical and structured organisation.
The very lack of rigid structure made WWW a success. Done "right," it would either never have left the labs, or we would have several small proprietary networks, costing $$$ to use. In the 1980's hypertext was a hot topic, the next big thing, but it was always envisioned to be controlled centrally with links traced properly both ways, and of course with proper access control and accounting so that the vendors and authors would get paid. Sir Tim dispensed with all that, creating something that could grow organically in a decentralized fashion. The result was a jungle, but an interesting and fertile one.
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Wednesday 25th April 2012 11:38 GMT Charles E
Internet's First "Hall Of Shame" REVEALED
This is NOT the collection of web stars who've helped literally make the internet. Such a venerable institution has existed since the early 1990s, and apparently has now vanished from the web. It is worthy of preservation, but the only copy I could find is on the Internet Wayback Machine. So I submit to you, the "Kook Of The Month" gallery:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060719233552/http://www.lart.com/auk/whiners.html
Internet nut cases like Archimedes Plutonium, Doctress Neutopia, Terri Tickle, and RIchard Bullis did more to shape the modern Internet than Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, or Linus Torvalds ever did.
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Wednesday 25th April 2012 16:48 GMT W.O.Frobozz
Re: Internet's First "Hall Of Shame" REVEALED
Let me be the first to say "USENET != Internet" (I haven't done that in years!). But you are correct nonetheless. There's an entire universe on USENET that should be recognized. Heh, Doctress Neutopia...now that's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. And let's not forget poor professor Alexander Abian (RIP) on his futile quest to prove that "TIME HAS MASS!!!1!!"
But truly...the bastards Cantor & Siegel should get the nod for starting the torrential plague we know as "spam." And the so-called "Knights of Freedom," the pro-spam idiots that followed C&S, are the spiritual fathers of the botnet creators.
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Wednesday 25th April 2012 20:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Robert Metcalfe for Ethernet
I feel strangely obliged to fill in names of each level of the stack, but since some commentard will point out that my understanding of layer 5 is shakier, I respectfully submit instead:
Radia Perlman for making Ethernet work in real networks.
W. Richard Stevens, the Yoda to 90% of us here
Messrs. Joy, McKusick and the others for a reliable TCP/IP stack on a real OS. (Remember when cdrom.com was the biggest site on the internet...on someone's crappy old P133?)
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Wednesday 25th April 2012 21:47 GMT Wile E. Veteran
Obviously put together by PR people
Otherwise, thew would not have included Al Gore and would have included Dennis Richie and Richard Stallman.
Like him or hate him, the majority of what people think of as "Linux" is really from the GNU project which Stallman started.
Arguably, the early internet was mostly Unix systems (not look-alikes such as Linux) and there would be no Unix (hence no Linux) without dmr.
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Thursday 26th April 2012 03:22 GMT Wombling_Free
Boring list - mostly men, mostly academia.
What about Jennifer Ringley?
Who? You may ask... remember JenniCAM? 1996? She really was a pioneer for what is now commonplace on the Internet, whether you think such a thing is 'dirty' or not.
How about Gene Ray, aka Otis E. Ray aka TIMECUBE.COM - peddling woo-woo-crackpot-hokum since 1997, and to this day hasn't worked out his blather is not only hilarious but unreadable. Quote" Belly-Button Is Signature" - I can't make it 30pt text though.
How about Paris Hilton? As a major topic on the Internet, surely she deserves... exposure!