Posted on 10/18/2013 6:26:04 AM PDT by Phillyred
The Internet Society is currently taking nominations for 2014 inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame. They're searching worldwide for people in three categories: Pioneers, Innovators, and Global Connectors. The nomination form is even open to the public. So who would you nominate?
Nominees can have contributed to the development of the internet in any number of ways, whether it was through research, programming, policy or simply "promoting growth of the internet community." The Internet Hall of Fame Advisory Board will review all the online submissions and make a final decision about inductees for the Awards ceremony, which will be held in Hong Kong next year.
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Two Early Visionaries Among 2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees Yesterday, the Internet Society announced this year's inductees to the Internet Hall of Fame. You'll notice popular names like Jimmy Wales, … Read… You have until the end of this month to nominate someone, but we'd love to hear who you'd like to see inducted. The 2013 inductees included Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, internet pioneer Robert Taylor, and the late activist Aaron Swartz, among many other people. When you look at all the past inductees, who do you think is missing from the list?
And don't even think about making the old hack joke that Al Gore should be inducted because he invented the internet. He's already on the list. Mainly because he was instrumental in privatizing the internet. So yeah, Al Gore did sort of "invent" the internet. Sorry, haters.
Photo: Al Gore in 2006 via Getty Images
Is this values-free like TIME Man Of the Year?
Laz.
“With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority that if you type “Google” into Google, you can break the Internet. So please, no one try it, even for a joke. It’s not a laughing matter. You can break the Internet.”
Just thinking of Al Gore gets me stuttering. :-)
Vint Cerf for inventing it
Tim Berners-Lee for making it useful
Matt Drudge for exploiting it most efficiently (one of the top 100 websites built on one page of plain html)
Actually, my list of nominees for Internet Hell is MUCH longer!
Actually, “Looter Guy” was smart to grab beer.......period...................
Craig and his list
In the early 1990s,Schwartz created an online forum for distributors to share their experiences in Amway. Many shared stories of how they were encouraged to spend thousands of dollars on motivational tapes, books and weekend seminars.
The proceeds from these sales went to the big Amway kingpins, who raked in millions from these sales, all the while claiming that their success was attributed solely to selling Amway products.
Schwartz's website revealed the truth, eventually ruining the Amway brand to the point that compelled them to rebrand their company to Quixtar in the late 1990s. See http://www.amwaywiki.com/Schwartz,_Sidney for more information.
Jim Rob—followed by Laz
Everett B.....founder and chief administrator of TheSamba.com, the worldwide Volkswagen forum.
Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Barack Obama. Also for World Series MVP.
I second that!
Lor creator of Brunching Shuttlecock, a site that’s no longer with us but was still the funniest comedy site ever.
I’ll tell ya, my wife and I were starting to look into Amway and came across this site. Thank God for it! We were able to pull a lot of folks away before getting in too deep.
Without question, the Chief Architect of the heathcare.gov web site, whoever that may be, bearing in mind we may never know.
Lazamataz
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