10 people of the world Hall of fame of the Internet, which you may have never heard Bashny.Net

The so-called "Hall of fame of the Internet" is functioning, as you can imagine from its name is an homage to the people from ancient times to the present day, who in one way or another to make a significant contribution to the development of the Internet.

Of course, here are the well known personalities – such as Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux, or Tim Berners-Lee, the father of modern Networking. But apart from them there are many people whose names are not famous and revered (and deservedly so) only in the technical community. Who is Donald Davis? And who is D. S. R. Licklider? And why they (and many others) is so important that their names are in the hall of fame?

Charles Hertzfeld was the Director of DARPA in the 1960s and is most remembered as the man accepted the decision about creation of the ARPANET – an early ancestor of the Internet





In 1971, Raymond Tomlinson was first used in the ARPANET email system





Donald Davis is one of the key inventors of packet switching system, the fundamental technology behind the development of the modern Internet





In 1991, Philip Zimmerman created PGP is a method of digital encryption that has proved so powerful that the U.S. government has taken in relation to him a criminal investigation for alleged "export of cryptographic software without a license"





Brewster Cale – in a sense, the Internet craftsman became famous for his religious stance against freedom of access to knowledge, and at the base of the Internet Archive in 1996, which now contains the directories 10 petabytes of web pages





Mitchell Baker Chairman, Mozilla Foundation, who held the position of Executive Director MozillaCorporation in the days when Firefox started to gain serious advantage over Internet Explorer from Microsoft





Tim Berners-Lee called the Creator of the world wide Web, but it largely downplays the role of Robert Cayo who was a co-author and companion Berners-Lee, and developed the logo and one of the first web browsers the OS dramas





Jon Postel – one of the geniuses who decided many difficult problems that could face the Internet, even before we found out about them. His work is devoted to communication standards, has played a major role in how the Internet works in our days





Robnett Joseph Carl Licklider, or simply "Face", was another key person from DARPA, one of the first predicted system similar to the modern Internet that can connect people and computers around the world. It is often called johnny "Apple seed" in the world of computers





Elizabeth Feinler (which is often called just "Jake"), was the Director of the Center "Network Information Systems" from 1972 to 1989, where she could watch as the ARPANET slowly evolyutsioniruet in the first primitive Internet





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