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Ida Holz’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

For devel­op­ing coun­tries like ours, the Internet is a means of col­lab­o­rat­ing and access to knowl­edge all around the world alike.

George Sadowsky’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

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.

Gihan Dias’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

In 2002, I took up anoth­er chal­lenge. That is, how we make these com­put­ers avail­able for peo­ple who do not speak English?

Glenn Ricart’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

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)

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.

Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

This is a very great hon­or and I’m proud, hon­ored, but not so lit­tle sur­prised to be here. But still, even though I’m not a trou­ble­mak­er, I may well not be an evan­ge­list, but I’m a real­ly real­ly stub­born lady.

Dave Farber’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

I guess I’m sup­posed to say how his­toric things hap­pen, but what I’d like to do is actu­al­ly para­phrase a com­ment that is fair­ly tra­di­tion­al in math­e­mat­ics and was first taught to me by Dick Hamming, that I have done good things (I’m para­phras­ing) because I’ve stood on the shoul­ders of great peo­ple that pre­ced­ed me.

Barry Leiner’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech (Posthumous)

Barry had a remark­able abil­i­ty to bring togeth­er diverse peo­ple, orga­ni­za­tions, to help make deci­sions and the plans that became the Internet as we know it today.

François Flückiger’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

CERN is a place where we try and under­stand where the uni­verse comes from. And to do that we need tech­nol­o­gy. This is why we devel­oped the Web.

Richard Stallman’s Internet Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Speech

So, thir­ty years ago if you want­ed to get a new com­put­er and use it you had to sur­ren­der your free­dom by installing a user-subjugating pro­pri­etary oper­at­ing sys­tem. So I decid­ed to fix that by devel­op­ing anoth­er oper­at­ing sys­tem and make it free, and it’s called GNU, but most the time you’ll hear peo­ple erro­neous­ly call­ing it Linux.

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