Internet

Jon Postel

Internet pioneer who managed IANA and edited the RFC series

1943 – 1998

Tim Berners-Lee

Inventor of the World Wide Web

Born 1955

Robert Taylor

Research manager who launched the ARPANET and led Xerox PARC’s computer lab

1932 – 2017

Larry Roberts

ARPA programme manager who designed and led the ARPANET

1937 – 2018

Vint Cerf

Co-designer of TCP/IP and one of the “fathers of the internet”

Born 1943

Steve Case

Co-founder of AOL who brought millions of Americans online

Born 1958

Ray Tomlinson

Programmer who sent the first networked email and chose the @ sign

1941 – 2016

Leonard Kleinrock

UCLA scientist whose lab sent the first message over the ARPANET

Born 1934

Steve Crocker

Internet pioneer who wrote the first Request for Comments

Born 1944

Paul Baran

RAND engineer who devised packet switching for networks that survive attack

1926 – 2011

Mary Meeker

“Queen of the Internet” known for her Internet Trends reports

J. C. R. Licklider

Psychologist who imagined the “Intergalactic Computer Network” and funded the research behind the internet

1915 – 1990

Donald Davies

British scientist who coined “packet switching” and built an early packet network

1924 – 2000

Bob Kahn

Co-inventor of TCP/IP and architect of the internet’s design

Born 1938