Internet gets Hall of Fame, Al Gore honored

Vint Cerf, often called one of the founding fathers of the Internet, was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame on April 23, 2012.

/ Internet Hall of Fame

(CBS News) The Internet is getting a hall of fame with inaugural inductees that include the fathers of the Internet and one U.S. Vice President. 

Three award categories were created for the Internet Society's Hall of Fame: Pioneers Circle, Innovators and Global Connectors.

Pioneers include "individuals who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet." The Innovators category honors "individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach." Global Connectors are "individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet."

The Internet Society's Hall of Fame announced its first round of inductees Monday at the Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Along with innovators Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, who had vital roles in founding the Internet, Vice President Al Gore got a nod as a Global Connector. A full list of inductees is posted at the Internet Hall of Fame website.

Pioneers Circle

Recognizing individuals who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet: Paul Baran, Vint Cerf, Danny Cohen, Steve Crocker, Donald Davies, Elizabeth Feinler, Charles Herzfeld, Robert Kahn, Peter Kirstein, Leonard Kleinrock, John Klensin, Jon Postel, Louis Pouzin, and Lawrence Roberts.

Innovators

Recognizing individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach: Mitchell Baker, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, Van Jacobson, Lawrence Landweber, Paul Mockapetris, Craig Newmark, Raymond Tomlinson, Linus Torvalds, and Philip Zimmermann.

Global Connectors

Recognizing individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet: Randy Bush, Kilnam Chon, Al Gore, Nancy Hafkin, Geoff Huston, Brewster Kahle, Daniel Karrenberg, Toru Takahashi, and Tan Tin Wee.

[judyblueeyes]

Congratulatons, Mr. Gore!

[judyblueeyes]

Al Gore DID play a large part in developing the internet we all use today. I worked for the federal government when Al was VP and he had every office choose one employee to go to training to use the internet and come back and show everyone else how to use it and what it could be used for. Up to time, I hadn't HEARD of the internet. So he really did play a large part. That's what he meant when he said he 'invented' it. It was a figure of speech and his distractors turned it into something to use against him. That's how they are.

[j_mcdonald-2009]

Gore also wrote the law that funded development of the first browser and made it legal for the first time for a commercial company to use the internet.

[hypnotoad72]

Yay! Thanks to the internet, many people have lost their jobs thanks to automation and offshoring...

[longtree-2009]

what? didn't al gore, former vp, say at one time that he invented the internet or something along that line?

[tryreading]

Nope, he never said he invented the internet. Just another political lie that people believe because they are too lazy to find out the truth.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

[j_mcdonald-2009]

No, he just wrote the law that made it legal for a commercial company to use the internet. Prior to that, only the military and universities could legally send data on it.

And which also paid for development of the first browser.

[venusvegasvada]

Excellent website and a great idea to give credit across the spectrum where credit is due.

The challenge of the future is to keep the internet free. It's probably the greatest "weapon" of freedom we have ever created.

[sjc_1]

With corporate owned media, it is more difficult to get the true story. The web allows information to flow instantly, it has kept the people in touch with what is going on around the world.

[ToolMangler1]

"The challenge of the future is to keep the internet free. It's probably the greatest "weapon" of freedom we have ever created."


Unfortunately 'moneyed Interests' have been busier than a 'Cat in a cement parking lot' trying to grab the rights to everything of interest on the internet so they can charge you a fee to use it..
It is my belief that every piece of information that preexisted the Internet should be freely accessible on the Web..
New services and applications would be subject to fees or charges..