Internet with museum honors

Almost 30 years after the official birth of the internet, the names of some of the great pioneers, reformers and contributors are being brought into the Internet Hall of Fame museum.

The honoree group included 33 of the most influential engineers on the Internet, broadcasters and entrepreneurs, including the father of the internet: Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, internet standards expert Jon Postel, the inventor. website Tim Berners-Lee; internet coding pioneer Phil Zimmerman, and Mitchell Baker of Mozilla. Former US Vice President Al Gore was also honored.

The list of people included in the museum has been announced April 23 in Geneva (Switzerland) at the annual conference of the Internet Society (ISOC). ISOC is the home of the Internet Engineering Task Force, which sets net and operational standards largely due to funding from .org domain names.

Vinton Cerf, who co-designed the TCP / IP protocol, is one of those
individuals are brought into ISOC's Hall of Fame museum.

The source of the internet is located in the university computer rooms and the US military weapons research agency DARPA, but Geneva is home to awards. The World Wide Web was born in Cern, which is only a few kilometers from the convention center, and Switzerland has been a center of international diplomacy for many years - very symbolically important for an organization born for a Civil society, engineers, companies and governments in decisions affect the existence and operation of the internet.

But when pioneers celebrated the moment of creating the world's most important communication medium, they also did not forget to mention immediate threats to their creativity. This year, the US government promoted the structural change of the internet to protect the business model of the film industry in the country, leading to the strong resistance of free internet supporters. Across the planet, authoritarian and repressive regimes deal with major disagreements by establishing filters, firewalls and tracking technology.

Geneva is also home to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an organization of the United Nations that functions to set the rules and standards of international telecommunications. Some ITU members are also demanding more control of governments on the internet. This move seems to originate from non-democratic countries that ISOC sees as a threat to the core principles of the internet.

But despite the existing dark clouds, the founders and major contributors of the internet have much to celebrate. About 2 billion people around the world have been connected to the internet, helping them communicate locally or globally, at almost no cost, as well as having access to knowledge, news and gossip stories. unimaginable level 30 years ago.

Reference: Wired