Internet Hall of Fame inducts first members

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04-24-2012, 02:29 AM #1

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The Internet Hall of Fame has officially been created and it has started out with a bang. Some of the more notable name include Vint Cerf ("founder of the internet"), Tim Berners-Lee("inventor of the web"), Mitchell Baker("CEO of Mozilla"), and Brewster Kahle("internet entrepreneur"). Marking the first of its kind, the Internet Hall of Fame ceremony was hosted by Internet Society to introduce more than thiry inductee's

The inductee's are all well profossed studious people who have had success in all different parts of their proffesion. SOme of their success includes:

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11 Ph.D.s, 11 published authors, one Academy Award winner, and one Nobel Prize Winner

This being the very first ceremony, the Internet Society recognized these 30 individuals for being the founding fathers of the Internet. It also included those who expand the Web into making it what it is today. This prestigious award ceremony was hosted in Geneva, which lies within beautiful Switzerland.

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04-24-2012, 02:49 AM #2

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Originally posted by HOUstoner

who ever made the first porn website is a hall of famer in my eyes

what about the guy who invented the first search engine to find those porn sites :p