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John Klensin’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by John Klensin

When many of the people in this room were beginning to lay the groundwork for the network in the 60s, I was working as a political scientist and worrying about communications patterns and how those worked.

Elizabeth Feinler’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Elizabeth Feinler

When I first started on the Internet in 1972, I joined Doug Engelbart’s group, Augmentation Research Center, and I didn’t know exactly what a network information center was but I thought we were going to be handling information in a very different way, and it was very addictive.

Nancy Hafkin’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Nancy Hafkin

About 1988, I was running a regional development information system at the United Nations economic commission for Africa in Addis Ababa. It was based on exchange of information with nodes in virtually every African country, and it was to be based on satellites for the exchange of that information. Unfortunately the satellites weren’t there.

Randy Bush’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Randy Bush

We mean well, but we also do good and we also do damage. Well-meaning Americans did something called the Leland Initiative, which broke networking in the indigenous networks in ten African countries and empowered the PTT monopolies.

Daniel Karrenberg’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Daniel Karrenberg

In 1992…I had a plan. And that plan was to set up the first regional Internet registry, and in April 1993 to be done with the Internet and move on to the next interesting thing.

Craig Newmark’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Craig Newmark

The people who really get the credit are the people who built the Internet, including a lot of people we never hear about. The credit also goes to people who help each other out every day, sometimes in large numbers, who never get any recognition at all.

Brewster Kahle’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

presented by Brewster Kahle

Back in 1980, working with the artificial intelligence guys, we had this idea we were going to make smart machines. But it needed to read good books, don’t you think?

The Conversation #46 — Mark Mykleby

presented by Aengus Anderson, Mark Mykleby, Micah Saul, Neil Prendergast

Today, in America right now, we only can think of growth in quantitative terms. And in a resource-constrained environment, how frickin’ stupid is that? You’re actually imposing your own death sentence by not being able to get over the grip of this quantitative dynamic.

Longines Chronoscope 12/07/1951 with Arthur Garfield Hays

presented by Arthur Garfield Hays, Frank Knight, Victor Riesel, William Bradford Huie

This idea of finding a communist under the bed seems me all nonsense. And the result of the whole thing is that Americans now are so timid about expressing themselves that we’ve practically given up democratic methods and free speech. … The result is that we act as one and even on controversial subjects we don’t find any debate in public life. And don’t dare.

Building Your Own Personal Truth

presented by Euan Semple

I think we are groping towards this idea of truth. And even the word truth can be defined in multiple different ways. So we are by its very nature dealing with a very slippery topic.