Alan Emtage

Alan Emtage

male, 45 years old
McGill University alumni, mcgill university, Montreal, barbados, Yahoo!, UNIX…ftp
Alan Emtage (born November 27, 1964) conceived of and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating...

Aria

female
free software, GTK+, command line interface, Cyclic Redundancy Check, segmented downloading, Download manager…ftp
Aria is a free software download manager with a self-described similarity to ReGet or GetRight. It allows segmented downloading of files via HTTP...

Scott Yanoff

male
Inter-Network Mail Guide, file transfer protocol, email, gopher, ftp, undergraduate student
Scott Yanoff was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and and maintaining the "Yanoff List." In the early and...
David L. Mills

David L. Mills

male, 71 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Internet Engineering Task Force, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Internet pioneer, fuzzball router…ftp
David L. Mills (born June 3, 1938) was the first chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the...
Ari Lemmke

Ari Lemmke

male, 46 years old
computer programmer, Unix-like, file transfer protocol, newsgroup, ftp, server
Ari Lemmke (born December 12, 1963) is the person who gave Linux its name. Linus Torvalds had planned to have it named "Freax" (a combination of...

Rick Gates

male
Internet history, University of Arizona, Interpedia, NCSA Mosaic, The Internet Hunt, Douglas P. Wilson…ftp
Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organised the The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the...

Bill McGarry

male, 57 years old
usenet, ADA-Law, Down-Syn, misc.handicap, internet advocate, Blind News Digest…ftp
Bill McGarry (born 1952) has been a long time advocate for the use of computer networks by people with disabilities. In 1985, McGarry created the...
Ingo Molnár

Ingo Molnár

male
Linux kernel hacker, free software programmer, file transfer protocol, realtime preemption patch, worst-case execution time, buffer overflow…ftp
Ingo Molnár, currently employed by Red Hat, is a Hungarian Linux kernel hacker. He is most well-known for his O(1) scheduler in the 2.6.x kernel s...

Steve Juon

male, 35 years old
Iowa State University, file transfer protocol, Web sites, hip hop culture, web master, dot com…ftp
Steve "Flash" Juon is an American journalist and web master who writes about hip-hop music and culture. Juon is a regular contributor for URB...