33 people were just inducted as the inaugural group into the Internet Hall of Fame.
Included in the group is the current Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker.
“Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, while he was a graduate student at UCLA, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET and laid the foundation for today’s Internet.”
Included in the 33 honored today was also Vint Cerf who is widely known as the father of the internet.
“Verf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet”
Even former Vice President Al Gore was inducted into the Hall for being:
“a key proponent of sponsoring legislation that funded the expansion of and greater public access to the Internet. Instrumental in helping to create the “Information Superhighway,” Gore was one of the first government officials to recognize that the Internet’s impact could reach beyond academia to fuel educational and economic growth as well.”
Craig Newmark the founder of Craigslist.com was also inducted.
You can see a full list and read a bio about each at the InternetHallofFame.org
When .org domain fees rise 10% next year (and the year after that, and the year after that, ….), remember that your money is going to ISOC (the Internet Society, creator of this “Hall of Fame”). This is another cozy monopoly that was handed over by ICANN insiders to their friends at ISOC.
Internet Hall of . SHAME
ISOC was down to about 6 people when the .ORG cash-cow was handed to them by their ICANN (IANA) insiders.
$35,000,000 per year is now donated to ISOC by their PIR arm’s length legal shell. The .XXX Registry runs on the same back-end Afilias platform.
The annual salaries and travel perks in all of the non-profits are jaw-dropping.
Outsiders are of course NOT allowed to compete in the Registry business. (yet)
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“Our goal in making the bid is to help the world’s charitable, scientific and civic organizations take full advantage of Internet-based technologies. ISOC’s global network, industry expertise and credibility with the noncommercial community will allow .ORG to embrace its mission with a renewed vision and momentum. We will create a new .ORG Advisory Council to focus solely on .ORG issues, to be made up of leadership from the broad spectrum of the noncommercial world. We propose innovative programs and products to address serious problems that plague the domain name industry in general and the noncommercial community specifically.”
When .org domain fees rise 10% next year”””
this will make dot com more valuable
not sure how they can include torvalds and not tannenbaum. the linux kernel was not built from scratch. yet the unix kernel was. maybe thompson and ritchie should be on the list.
who made this list? some random blogger?
how they can include bill joy? or djb?
it’s one thing to write protocols.
and who can say what makes one catch on and another fade into rfc obscurity?
it’s quite another thing to implement a given protocol with a reasonable level of quality. to create something that does not break or expose people to insecurity. few can do it.
good to see pouzin and vj on the list.
long live batch jobs and the command line.
“who made this list? some random blogger?”
As with all things I* related – You can bet that list was very carefully constructed.
Stay tuned for the very carefully selected (screened) new ICANN CEO.
Also, stay tuned for the very carefully selected (screened) new gTLDs.
I* = ISOC ICANN IETF IANA IAB IRTF + all the insiders THEY endorse as .OK
“instrumental in releasing netscape’s source code”
well, good, but who exactly can even approach that code except a small group who are necessarily familiar with it?
mozilla code is a morass and literally impenetrable to the common coder. ever try building firefox from source? it is ridiculously complex. assuming you don’t work for mozilla, would you consider making your own changes? i doubt it. it’s far to easy to break.
why aren’t there more xulrunner apps? if the code is easy to work with, there should be lots.
it’s like people saying apple’s osx is open source. well, try to build osx from what’s in xcode. it’s a non-starter. there’s a lot that is omitted.
is chromium easy to build from source?
“open sourcing” of web browser code has a long way to go as far as it’s utility to the common coder and the non-technical but transparency conscious end user.
what we need is more simplified, single purpose browsers that the common geek can hack on.
break up the complexity into digestible pieces.
unix philosophy.
‘nuf said.
Seriously? People are arguing over who should or shouldn’t be in the ultimate Geek’s Club? People are resentful because they’re not being recognized as an Insider-Nerd? People are mad because the guys at ISOC are running the GeekGang? Maybe you could order some pocket-protectors with a statement of protest printed on the flap.
LOL. You guys crack me up. This is precisely why I love domaining. Thank you!
Amazing !
Congrats to the winners.
I Still own IInventedTheInternet.com.
But I was so “Inspired” by Al Gore’s Internet Genius and everyday Genius & Knowledge I used to own these as well 🙂
IInventedAlGore.com
IInventedGlobalWarming.com
IInventedMyself.com
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IInventedTheDemocraticParty.com
IInventedTheEmmys.com
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IInventedTheOscars.com
IReinventedGovernment.com