The Internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society (ISOC) in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the

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Overview

The Internet Hall of Fame was established in 2012, on the 20th anniversary of ISOC. Its stated purpose is to "publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet". Nominations may be made by anyone through an applications process. The Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board is responsible for the final selection of inductees. The advisory board is made up of professionals in the Internet industry.

History

In 2012, there were 33 inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame, announced on April 23, 2012, at the Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland. There were 32 inductees in 2013. They were announced on June 26, 2013, and the induction ceremony was held on August 3, 2013, in Berlin, Germany. The ceremony was originally to be held in

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, but the venue was changed due to the ongoing government protests in Turkey. The class of 2014 inducted 24 people. They were announced at an event in

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. There were no inductees in 2015 or 2016, while the ISOC worked to create an Advisory Board to provide leadership on the program's direction. This Advisory Board would be responsible for the selection of the inductees going forward. On September 18, 2017, the Internet Society gathered to honor the fourth class of Internet Hall of Fame Inductees at

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, where nearly 50 years before, the first electronic message was sent over the Internet's predecessor, the

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. On September 27, 2019, 11 new members were inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in a ceremony in San Jose, Costa Rica. The inductees included Larry Irving, the first African-American to be inducted. In February 2021, the Internet Hall of Fame announced that nominations were open for 2021 inductees until April 23, 2021, which was later extended to May 7, 2021.

Inductees

From 2012 to 2017, inductees were considered in three categories: * Pioneers: "Individuals who were instrumental in the early design and development of the Internet." * Global Connectors: "Individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet." * Innovators: "Individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach." An asterisk (*) indicates a posthumous recipient. Since 2019, inductees are not assigned categories.

Pioneers

2012 * Paul Baran^* * Vint Cerf * Danny Cohen * Steve Crocker * Donald Davies^* * Elizabeth J. Feinler * Charles Herzfeld^* * Robert Kahn * Peter Kirstein * Leonard Kleinrock * John Klensin * Jon Postel^* * Louis Pouzin * Lawrence Roberts 2013 * David Clark * David Farber * Howard Frank * Kanchana Kanchanasut * J.C.R. Licklider^* * Bob Metcalfe * Jun Murai * Kees Neggers * Nii Quaynor * Glenn Ricart * Robert Taylor * Stephen Wolff * Werner Zorn 2014 * Douglas Engelbart^* * Susan Estrada * Frank Heart^* * Dennis Jennings * Rolf Nordhagen^* * Radia Perlman

Global connectors

2012 * Randy Bush * Kilnam Chon *

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* Nancy Hafkin * Geoff Huston * Brewster Kahle * Daniel Karrenberg * Toru Takahashi * Tan Tin Wee 2013 * Karen Banks * Gihan Dias * Anriette Esterhuysen * Steve Goldstein *

Teus Hagen Teus Hagen (* 6 October 1945 in Wijnjeterp)Helmut Neumann: Das Lexikon der Internetpioniere. Flintbek, 2001. is a Dutch Internet pioneer. Biography Hagen started his career at the Computer Laboratory of the Mathematical Centre. Later, he initia ...

* Ida Holz * Qiheng Hu * Haruhisa Ishida^* * Barry Leiner^* * George Sadowsky 2014 * Dai Davies * Demi Getschko * Masaki Hirabaru^* * Erik Huizer * Steve Huter * Abhaya Induruwa * Dorcas Muthoni * Mahabir Pun * Srinivasan Ramani * Michael Roberts * Ben Segal * Douglas Van Houweling 2017 * Nabil Bukhalid * Ira Fuchs * Shigeki Goto * Mike Jensen * Ermanno Pietrosemoli * Tadao Takahashi * Florencio Utreras * Jianping Wu

Innovators

2012 * Mitchell Baker * Tim Berners-Lee * Robert Cailliau * Van Jacobson * Lawrence Landweber * Paul Mockapetris * Craig Newmark * Raymond Tomlinson *

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* Philip Zimmermann 2013 * Marc Andreessen * John Perry Barlow * François Flückiger * Stephen Kent * Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder * Henning Schulzrinne * Richard Stallman * Aaron Swartz^* * Jimmy Wales 2014 * Eric Allman * Eric Bina * Karlheinz Brandenburg * John Cioffi * Hualin Qian * Paul Vixie 2017 * Jaap Akkerhuis * Yvonne Marie Andrés * Alan Emtage * Ed Krol * Tracy LaQuey Parker * Craig Partridge

Inductees since 2019

2019 * Adiel Akplogan * Kimberly Claffy * Douglas Comer * Elise Gerich * Larry Irving * Daniel C. Lynch * Jean Armour Polly * José Soriano * Michael Stanton * Klaas Wierenga * Suguru Yamaguchi^* 2021 * Carlos Afonso * Rob Blokzijl^* * Hans-Werner Braun * Frode Greisen * Jan Gruntorad * Saul Hahn * Kim Hubbard * Rafael (Lito) Ibarra * Xing Li *

Yngvar G. Lundh Yngvar Gundro Lundh (19 March 1932 – 15 August 2020) was a Norwegian engineer and technology pioneer. He was known for bringing Internet to Norway as the second country after USA, and for developing one of Norway's first computing devices. In ...

^* * Dan Kaminsky^* * DaeYoung Kim * Kenneth J. Klingenstein * Alejandro Pisanty * Yakov Rekhter * Philip Smith * Pål Spilling^* * Liane Tarouco * Virginia Travers * George Varghese * Lixia Zhang 2023 * Abhay Bhushan * Laura Breeden * Ivan Moura Campos * Steve Cisler * Peter Eckersley^* * Hartmut Richard Glaser * Simon S. Lam * William L. Schrader * Guy de Téramond Peralta

Advisory board

2012 * Lishan Adam * Joi Ito * Mark Mahaney * Chris Anderson * Mike Jensen * Alejandro Pisanty * Alex Corenthin * Aleks Krotoski * Lee Rainie * William H. Dutton * Loïc Le Meur 2013 and 2014 * Lishan Adam * Raúl Echeberría * C.L. Liu * Hessa Al Jaber * Hartmut Glaser * Alejandro Pisanty * Grace Chng * Katie Hafner * Oliver Popov * Alex Corenthin * Mike Jensen * Lee Rainie * William H. Dutton * Aleks Krotoski * Andreu Veà Baró 2017 * Randy Bush * Steven Huter * Srinivasan Ramani * Kilnam Chon * Abhaya Induruwa * Glenn Ricart * Gihan Dias * Dennis Jennings * Lawrence Roberts * Anriette Esterhuysen * John Klensin * George Sadowsky * Susan Estrada * Lawrence Landweber * Douglas Van Houweling * Demi Getschko * Paul Mockapetris * Paul Vixie * Nancy Hafkin * Radia Perlman

References

External links

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Q&As with the living inductees
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