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The discovery earned him the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers' Gordon Bell Prize in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet. Since then, he has won more than 100 prizes for his work and Apple computer has used his microprocessor technology in their Power Mac G4 model.
Philip Emeagwali - A calculating move [time.com]
He was responsible in funding some projects, but he never claimed to be the father of the internet.
ready for DNA test?
But, I'll nominate Vinton Cerf to the gene pool...
A funny thing: I was thumbing through an Old Boardwatch Magazine yesterday, (the Feb. 1994 issue)... just after page 54 there's a full page ad to "Join the Internet Society" (the connection is that Cerf was an ISOC co-founder)... So what's funny?.... There's no email or any other type of internet address in the ad -- you had to tear out the form and mail it in.
1994...so, how many domains did you register?
- walkman
I got a few good ones, but I wasn't as smart as other people back then... I remember someone (Jack Rickard?), registered "internet.com" and I though, "Boy, that's stupid".
I was into place names and building "community websites" (one town, one website), and developed a set of scripts in a perl like language called TPL, (calendar, news, class ads, "graffiti wall", chat, etc..). The package ran under TSX-32/OS (a pre IIS web server)... I also built some of the first TBBS->TCP/IP gateways (before the IPAD was released for you ex-sysops).
I wonder if someone in a small, third world, non-english speaking country is feeling like it's 1994 all over again. Much smaller scale of course, but still, in 10 years they might get wired.
[edited by: lawman at 3:05 am (utc) on Nov. 7, 2007]
[edit reason] No URLs - even if they are funny ;) [/edit]
