At one point, in contravention of a great many regulations we managed, together, to buy a computer out of project funds. And after a good bit of time, we put Unix on it and got that to work.
Internet Hall of Fame 2013 (Page 4 of 5)
As I was coming over toward Brussels in the airplane, happened look down the window and there were the Straits of Dover. And the melody just came to my mind, you know, “I’m flying over the white cliffs of Dover,” the World War II melody. And it reminded me that I am not of this Internet generation.
After two weeks we were nowhere. And it drove home to me the concept of information poverty in a way that no other experience had.
In 2002, I took up another challenge. That is, how we make these computers available for people who do not speak English?
The first Internet exchange without a gateway in the middle appears to have been in College Park, beginning in about 1986, and I was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time.
Haruhisa Ishida’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech (Posthumous)
presented by Haruhisa Ishida
He was happy working with the people of computer science, and working for the Internet or computers. And this is all that I can say.
The second phase is nobody cared. That’s a really good thing. Because you can actually do engineering work without having grand ambitions or having lots of people, say at other standards organizations, suddenly get interested. They didn’t know what was hitting them.
Ida Holz’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech
presented by Ida Holz
For developing countries like ours, the Internet is a means of collaborating and access to knowledge all around the world alike.
I’m very deeply honored, surprised, and gratified. I am a member of another hall of fame, which is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and let me tell you there’s a lot more narcissism involved.
Kanchana Kanchanasut’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech
presented by Kanchana Kanchanasut
The most difficult thing was in order to get involved in this type of activity, we needed to get finance. We needed to get funding. And for us, it was very difficult because our government would not understand what we wanted to do.