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The Internet Hall of Fame is an honorary
lifetime achievement award Lifetime achievement awards are awarded by various organizations, to recognize contributions over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions. Such awards, and organizations presenting them, include: A * A.C. ...
administered by the
Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...
(ISOC) in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the
Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
.About page
Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012


Overview

The Internet Hall of Fame was established in 2012, on the 20th anniversary of ISOC. Its stated purpose is to "publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet". Nominations may be made by anyone through an applications process. The Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board is responsible for the final selection of inductees. The advisory board is made up of professionals in the
Internet industry An online service provider (OSP) can, for example, be an Internet service provider, an email provider, a news provider (press), an entertainment provider (music, movies), a search engine, an e-commerce site, an online banking site, a health site, ...
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History

In 2012, there were 33 inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame, announced on April 23, 2012, at the Internet Society's Global INET conference in
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. There were 32 inductees in 2013. They were announced on June 26, 2013, and the induction ceremony was held on August 3, 2013, in Berlin, Germany. The ceremony was originally to be held in
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, but the venue was changed due to the ongoing government protests in Turkey. The class of 2014 inducted 24 people. They were announced at an event in
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. There were no inductees in 2015 or 2016, while the ISOC worked to create an Advisory Board to provide leadership on the program's direction. This Advisory Board would be responsible for the selection of the inductees going forward. On September 18, 2017, the
Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...
gathered to honor the fourth class of Internet Hall of Fame Inductees at
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, where nearly 50 years ago, the first electronic message was sent over the Internet's predecessor, the
ARPANET The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical fou ...
. On September 27, 2019, 11 new members were inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in a ceremony in San Jose, Costa Rica. The inductees included Larry Irving, the first African-American to be inducted. In February 2021, the Internet Hall of Fame announced that nominations were open for 2021 inductees until April 23, 2021, which was later extended to May 7, 2021.


Inductees

From 2012 to 2017, inductees were considered in three categories: * Pioneers: "Individuals who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet." * Global Connectors: "Individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet." * Innovators: "Individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach." An asterisk (*) indicates a posthumous recipient. In 2019, inductees were not assigned categories.


Pioneers

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Paul Baran Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the dom ...
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Vint Cerf Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of " the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include ...
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Donald Davies Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he conceived of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communic ...
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Elizabeth J. Feinler Elizabeth Jocelyn "Jake" Feinler (born March 2, 1931) is an American information scientist. From 1972 until 1989 she was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the SRI International, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). ...
* Charles Herzfeld* * Robert Kahn * Peter Kirstein* *
Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theory ...
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John Klensin John C. Klensin is a political scientist and computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues. Career His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist at MIT, including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinat ...
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Louis Pouzin Louis Pouzin (April 20, 1931 in Chantenay-Saint-Imbert, Nièvre, France) is a French computer scientist. He designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES. This network was the first actual implementation of the pure datagram model, ...
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David Farber David J. Farber (born April 17, 1934) is a professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking. He is currently the Distinguished Professor and Co-Director of Cyber Civilization Res ...
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Howard Frank Sir Howard George Frank, 1st Baronet, (10 November 1871 – 10 January 1932) was an English estate agent and public servant. He was a co-founder of Knight Frank. Frank was born in Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the son of Frederick Frank. H ...
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Kanchana Kanchanasut Kanchana Kanchanasut (กาญจนา กาญจนาสุต) is a Thai computer science professor at the Asian Institute of Technology who became the first Thai person to use email. She hosted the first server in Thailand connected to ...
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Bob Metcalfe Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946) is an engineer and entrepreneur from the United States who helped pioneer the Internet starting in 1970. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the e ...
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Jun Murai is a Japanese professor and administrator known as "the father of Internet in Japan" and "Internet Samurai". He is a professor at Keio University. Murai is the founder of JUNET and founder of the WIDE Project. Murai graduated from Keio Univer ...
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Nii Quaynor Nii Narku Quaynor is a Ghanaian scientist and engineer who has played an important role in the introduction and development of the Internet throughout Africa. Biography Quaynor graduated in engineering science from Dartmouth College in 1972, an ...
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Glenn Ricart Glenn Ricart is a computer scientist. He was influential in the development of the Internet (ARPANET) going back to 1969 and early implementation of the TCP/IP protocol. Since then he has been active in technology and business as well as donat ...
* Robert Taylor * Stephen Wolff *
Werner Zorn Werner Zorn (born 24 September 1942, in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main) is a German computer scientist and Internet pioneer. From 2001 to 2007, he was a professor of communication systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam ...
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Douglas Engelbart Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...
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Susan Estrada Susan Estrada is in the Internet Hall of Fame for founding CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, in 1988. Through her leadership and collaboration with PSINet and UUnet, Estrada helped form the interconnection enabling the first comm ...
* Frank Heart* * Dennis Jennings * Rolf Nordhagen* *
Radia Perlman Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her inventi ...


Global connectors

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Al Gore Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore was the Democratic Part ...
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Nancy Hafkin Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1 ...
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Geoff Huston Geoffrey Angier Huston (born November 8, 1957) is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a point guard for the New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers. Collegiat ...
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Daniel Karrenberg Daniel Karrenberg (born 1959, in Düsseldorf) is a German computer scientist and Internet pioneer who lives in the Netherlands. Biography From 1981 to 1987, Karrenberg was a scientific assistant and network administrator at TU Dortmund. In 1982 ...
* Toru Takahashi * Tan Tin Wee 2013 *
Karen Banks Karen Banks is a British computer networking pioneer who was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 as a "Global Connector". Life In the 1990s she maintained GnFido, a pioneering gateway run by non-profit ISP GreenNet, which used store ...
* Gihan Dias * Anriette Esterhuysen * Steve Goldstein *
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George Sadowsky George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. He is known through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of t ...
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Demi Getschko Demi Getschko (born 4 May 1953) is a Brazilian computer scientist who is considered one of the pioneers of the Internet in Brazil. He currently is the CEO of NIC.br. Early life Son of Bulgarian immigrants Emil Gestchko and pharmacist Erifili Di ...
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Abhaya Induruwa Abhaya Induruwa ( si, අභය ඉඳුරුව) is the inaugural Professor V K Samaranayake Endowed Professor of Computing, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Having served as the Director of Cyber Innovation Hub he rece ...
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Dorcas Muthoni Dorcas Muthoni (born 1979, Nyeri) is a Kenyan entrepreneur, computer scientist and founder of OPENWORLD LTD, a software consulting company she started at the age of 24. Through her work as an entrepreneur and computer scientist, Muthoni seeks to ...
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Mahabir Pun Mahabir Pun ( ne, महावीर पुन, ) is a Nepali researcher, teacher, social entrepreneur and an activist known for his work in applying wireless technologies to develop remote areas of the Himalayas, also known as the Nepal Wireles ...
* Srinivasan Ramani * Michael Roberts * Ben Segal *
Douglas Van Houweling Doug Van Houweling is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is best known for his contributions to the development and deployment of the Internet. For these accomplishments, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fa ...
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Nabil Bukhalid Nabil Bukhalid was a Lebanese computer scientist and founder of the Lebanese Academic and Research Network. He is a Internet Hall of Fame Inductee and he was one of the key figures responsible for introducing the Internet to Lebanon and establis ...
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Ira Fuchs Ira H. Fuchs (born December 1948) is an internationally known authority on technology innovation in higher education and is a co-founder of BITNET, an important precursor of the Internet. He wainductedinto the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. Si ...
* Shigeki Goto * Mike Jensen * Ermanno Pietrosemoli * Tadao Takahashi * Florencio Utreras *
Jianping Wu Wu Jianping (; born 4 October 1953), also known as Jian-Ping Wu, is a Chinese computer scientist. He is Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He is also Chairman of the China Education and Research Netwo ...


Innovators

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Mitchell Baker Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957) is the Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications ...
* Tim Berners-Lee *
Robert Cailliau Robert Cailliau (, born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer, computer scientist and author who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly wi ...
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Van Jacobson Van Jacobson (born 1950) is an American computer scientist, renowned for his work on TCP/IP network performance and scaling.
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Lawrence Landweber Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doct ...
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Paul Mockapetris Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). Education Mockapetris graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1966, rec ...
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Craig Newmark Craig Alexander Newmark (born December 6, 1952) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for companie ...
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Raymond Tomlinson Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; It was the first system able to send mail be ...
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Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android. He also ...
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Philip Zimmermann Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption ...
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John Perry Barlow John Perry Barlow (October 3, 1947February 7, 2018) was an American poet, essayist, cattle rancher, and cyberlibertarian political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a lyricist for th ...
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François Flückiger François Flückiger is a French computer scientist who worked at CERN. He was selected for induction in 2013 in the Internet Hall of Fame. Internet contributions Flückiger was in charge of the CERN external network.Olivier Marti “The “hi ...
* Stephen Kent * Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder *
Henning Schulzrinne Henning Schulzrinne is a German-American computer scientist, who led research and development of the voice over IP network protocols. Life Schulzrinne studied engineering management at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information T ...
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Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to ...
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Aaron Swartz Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. A prolific programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS, the tech ...
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Eric Allman Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, I ...
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Eric Bina Eric J. Bina (born October 1964) is an American software programmer who is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at Nat ...
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Karlheinz Brandenburg Karlheinz Brandenburg (born 20 June 1954) is a German electrical engineer and mathematician. Together with Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser (former Institutes Director of Fraunhofer IIS), Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all Fraun ...
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John Cioffi John Mathew Cioffi (born November 7, 1956) is an American electrical engineer, educator and inventor who has made contributions in telecommunication system theory, specifically in coding theory and information theory. Best known as "the father of ...
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Paul Vixie Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open ...
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Ed Krol Ed Krol (born August 21, 1951) is the former network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois ...
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Craig Partridge Dr. Craig Partridge is an American computer scientist, best known for his contributions to the technical development of the Internet. Partridge graduated in 1979 from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington D.C. He received his A.B. in history i ...


Inductees since 2019

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* Kimberly Claffy *
Douglas Comer Douglas Earl Comer is a professor of computer science at Purdue University, where he teaches courses on operating systems and computer networks. He has written numerous research papers and textbooks, and currently heads several networking resear ...
* Elise Gerich * Larry Irving *
Dan Lynch Daniel Lynch (born June 21, 1962) is a former college and professional American football offensive guard; he attended Washington State University; he was inducted to their athletic Hall of Fame in 2006. Lynch went on to a career in the venture ca ...
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Jean Armour Polly Jean Armour Polly is a librarian and the author of an early series of books on safe Internet services, ''Surfing the Internet.''. She has been an active Internet user since 1991. In 2019, she was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. She was ...
* José Soriano * Michael Stanton *
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* Suguru Yamaguchi* 2021 *
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Rob Blokzijl Robert "Rob" Blokzijl (21 October 1943 – 1 December 2015) was a Dutch physicist and computer scientist at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF), and an early internet pioneer. He was founding member and chairman of RIPE, the Rés ...
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Dan Kaminsky Daniel Kaminsky (February 7, 1979 – April 23, 2021) was an American computer security researcher. He was a co-founder and chief scientist of WhiteOps, a computer security company. He previously worked for Cisco, Avaya, and IOActive, where h ...
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Pål Spilling Pål Spilling (October 29, 1934 – January 16, 2018) was a Norwegian Internet pioneer and professor at the University of Oslo and the UNIK Graduate Center at Kjeller in Norway. He obtained his cand.real. degree in physics from the University of ...
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George Varghese George Varghese (born 1960) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining MSR's lab in Silicon Valley in 2013, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, where he led the Internet Algorithm ...
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Lixia Zhang Lixia Zhang () is the Jonathan B. Postel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.. Her expertise is in computer networks; she helped found the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed the Resource Reservation ...


Advisory board

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Joi Ito is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. Ito has ...
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Mark Mahaney Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Fin ...
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Chris Anderson Chris Anderson may refer to: Sports * Chris Anderson (baseball) (born 1992), American baseball player * Chris Anderson (cheese roller), 22-time winner of annual cheese rolling * Chris Anderson (footballer, born 1925) (1925–1986), Scottish footb ...
* Mike Jensen *
Alejandro Pisanty Alejandro is the Spanish language, Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Alexander, Aleksander (Czech language, Czech, Polish language, Polish), Alexandre (French language, French ...
* Alex Corenthin * Aleks Krotoski * Lee Rainie * William H. Dutton *
Loïc Le Meur Loïc Le Meur (born 14 July 1972) is a French entrepreneur and blogger. He served as Executive Vice President EMEA at software company Six Apart after merging French blogging company Ublog with Six Apart in July 2004. In late 2006 Le Meur became ...
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Lishan Adam Lishan may refer to: * Lishán Didán, modern Jewish Aramaic language People's Republic of China *Lishan District (立山区), Anshan, Liaoning * Mount Li (骊山), near Xi'an * Lishan, Sui County (), town in Sui County, Suizhou, Hubei * Lishan, ...
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C.L. Liu CL or cl may refer to: Arts and entertainment * CL (rapper) or Lee Chae-rin (born 1991), singer and rapper, former leader of the K-pop girl group 2NE1 * Creative Loafing, a newspaper publisher Brands and enterprises * Colgate-Palmolive's NYS ...
* Hessa Al Jaber * Hartmut Glaser *
Alejandro Pisanty Alejandro is the Spanish language, Spanish form of the name Alexander. Alejandro has multiple variations in different languages, including Alexander, Aleksander (Czech language, Czech, Polish language, Polish), Alexandre (French language, French ...
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Katie Hafner Katie Hafner (born December 5, 1957) is an American journalist and author. She is a former staff member of ''The New York Times'', and has written articles about technology, healthcare, and society, and books about the computer underground, the hi ...
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* Alex Corenthin * Mike Jensen * Lee Rainie * William H. Dutton * Aleks Krotoski *
Andreu Veà Baró Andreu Veà, Ph.D. (1969 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Girona, Spain), is an engineer, president of the Internet Society (ISOC-ES) and member of the advisory board of the Internet Hall of Fame. He has been appointed as ''Digital Champion for Spain ...
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Randy Bush Randy is a given name, popular in the United States and Canada. It is primarily a masculine name. It was originally derived from the names Randall, Randolf, Randolph, as well as Bertrand and Andrew, and may be a short form (hypocorism) of them ...
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Steven Huter Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
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Abhaya Induruwa Abhaya Induruwa ( si, අභය ඉඳුරුව) is the inaugural Professor V K Samaranayake Endowed Professor of Computing, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Having served as the Director of Cyber Innovation Hub he rece ...
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Glenn Ricart Glenn Ricart is a computer scientist. He was influential in the development of the Internet (ARPANET) going back to 1969 and early implementation of the TCP/IP protocol. Since then he has been active in technology and business as well as donat ...
* Gihan Dias * Dennis Jennings * Lawrence Roberts * Anriette Esterhuysen *
John Klensin John C. Klensin is a political scientist and computer science professional who is active in Internet-related issues. Career His career includes 30 years as a principal research scientist at MIT, including a period as INFOODS Project Coordinat ...
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George Sadowsky George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. He is known through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of t ...
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Susan Estrada Susan Estrada is in the Internet Hall of Fame for founding CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks, in 1988. Through her leadership and collaboration with PSINet and UUnet, Estrada helped form the interconnection enabling the first comm ...
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Lawrence Landweber Lawrence Hugh Landweber is John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in 1963 at Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. at Purdue University in 1967. His doct ...
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Douglas Van Houweling Doug Van Houweling is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. He is best known for his contributions to the development and deployment of the Internet. For these accomplishments, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fa ...
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Demi Getschko Demi Getschko (born 4 May 1953) is a Brazilian computer scientist who is considered one of the pioneers of the Internet in Brazil. He currently is the CEO of NIC.br. Early life Son of Bulgarian immigrants Emil Gestchko and pharmacist Erifili Di ...
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Paul Mockapetris Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). Education Mockapetris graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1966, rec ...
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Paul Vixie Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open ...
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Nancy Hafkin Nancy Jane Hafkin is a pioneer of networking and development information and electronic communications in Africa, spurring the Pan African Development Information System (PADIS) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) from 1 ...
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Radia Perlman Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her inventi ...


See also

* Internet celebrity *
Internet pioneer Instead of having a single "inventor", the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following are some Internet pioneers who contributed to its early and ongoing development. These include early theoretical foundations, specifyi ...
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IEEE Internet Award IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award established by the IEEE in June 1999. The award is sponsored by Nokia Corporation. It may be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the adv ...


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Q&As with the living inductees
from ''Wired'', 2012 {{Internet Hall of Fame Lifetime achievement awards Awards established in 2012 Science and technology halls of fame