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The Internet has a vast history and a huge amount of resources that cover that history. In this category, the focus is on the people that made the history of the Internet what it is today.

Subcategories

• Barlow, John Perry
• Berners-Lee, Tim
• Cerf, Vinton
• Muuss, Michael John
• Postel, Jonathan

Resources in This Category

• Dunster Net

  http://www.suresh.com/
  Suresh Chanmugam provides pictures of the team which set up this computer network at Harvard, with a note of its history.

• Ellis, Jim

  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-29-ellis-usenet.htm
  USA Today's tribute to the creator of Usenet, who died from non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

• Gilmore, John

  http://www.toad.com/gnu/
  Personal site of the man who co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation and started the alt.* Usenet hierarchy. Includes his political views, thoughts on drugs, a biography and press mentions.

• Internet Pioneers

  http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/
  Profiles by Scott Griffin of ten individuals who helped make the Internet a reality.

• Kleinrock, Leonard

  http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/
  Personal site of the man who thought up the principles of packet switching. Includes a biography and a list of publications.

• Roberts, Lawrence

  http://www.packet.cc/
  The chairman and chief technology officer of Caspian Networks is recognized as one of the foremost authorities on packet switching and network. Includes biography and publications.

• Wikipedia : Cailliau, Robert

  http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cailliau
  A Belgian computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.

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