Elizabeth Feinler

Elizabeth Feinler’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Profile

in Internet Hall of Fame 2012

I’m Elizabeth Feinler, usually known as “Jake.” That’s my nickname. And I ran the contract for the Network Information Center on both the ARPANET and the Defense Data Network back in the 70s and 80s.

Elizabeth Feinler’s Internet Hall of Fame 2012 Induction Speech

in Internet Hall of Fame 2012

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.