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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.

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