Piet Beertema (born 22 October 1943 in

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) is a Dutch

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. On November 17, 1988 at 2:28 PM, he linked the

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as the second country (shortly after France's

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) to

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, a precursor to the Internet. Beertema was then working as an administrator at the

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(CWI) in Amsterdam. His first job was in 1965 at the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory, where he first came into contact with a computer (an

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-B). In 1966 he joined the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, where he worked until his retirement. On April 1, 1984, Beertema created and posted to the

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Usenet site posing as

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. Beertema's message greeted fellow users of Usenet on behalf of the

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and stated that one aim of them joining was to better present the views of the Soviet regime, alleging that the

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administration were seeking war and world domination. The name Kremvax would subsequently be used by Vadim Antonov in 1991, when he became the first Moscovite to join usenet. On April 25, 1986 Beertema recorded the first country code

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Official website
of SIDN In 1996 he co-founded the that would take over the management of the .nl, .nl domain, after doing this himself for almost 10 years. On June 9, 1999 he received a royal decoration, Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. On September 16, 2004 he officially retired.

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Piet Beertema's Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beertema, Piet 1943 births Living people Dutch computer scientists Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Scientists from Amsterdam

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