The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!)

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The best revolutionaries eventually find themselves hailed in tributes and enshrined in museums.

So it’s almost inevitable that nearly 30 years after the official
birthdate of the internet, some of the net’s best-known pioneers,
radicals, and troublemakers are being inducted into the Internet Society’s Hall of Fame.

The inaugural group
includes 33 of the net’s most influential engineers, evangelists and
entrepreneurs including internet fathers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf;
internet standards guru Jon Postel; web inventor Tim Berners-Lee;
encryption pioneer Phil Zimmerman; and Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker.

And, yes, snarky late night comedy aside — former vice president Al Gore is being inducted as well.

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