Internet Hall of Fame Pioneers

As someone who appreciates the impact of the on society, I am always interested in those who helped make it happen. The Internet Hall of Fame inducts in some of those who have made major contributions.

They have three categories – pioneers, global connectors and innovators. For those interested here are the pioneers:

  • Paul Baran – helped invent packet switching
  • – co-designer of TCP/IP protocols that the Internet runs on
  • Danny Cohen –  first application of packet switching to real-time applications
  • Steve Crocker – developed the protocols for the ARPANET
  • Donald Davies – one of the inventors of packet switching computer networking
  • Elizabeth Feinler –  pioneered and managed the ARPANET, and the Defense Data Network (DDN), network information centers
  • Charles Herzfeld – director of the Advanced Projects Agency (ARPA) in the 1960s, oversaw the decision for the creation of ARPANET
  • Robert Kahn – co-designer of TCP/IP protocols that the Internet runs on
  • Peter Kirstein – started the first European ARPANET node with transatlantic IP connectivity
  • Leonard Kleinrock – pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks
  • John Klensin – involved in the early procedural and definitional work for DNS administration and -level domain definitions
  • Jon Postel – contributed to TCP/IP, SMTP and DNS development. RFC Editor. Created and was IANA. Internet Society founder.
  • Louis Pouzin – designed the CYCLADES computer network and its datagram packet switching network, from which TCP/IP was derived
  • Lawrence Roberts – designed and managed the first packet network, the ARPANET

Their work collectively has changed the world dramatically.

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