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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.

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