John Gilmore

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John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.*...

Tom Truscott

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Tom Truscott is a computer scientist best known for creating Usenet with Jim Ellis, when both were graduate students at Duke University.
Sam Sloan

Sam Sloan

male, 65 years old
Samuel Howard Sloan (b. September 7, 1944), also known as M. Ismail Sloan, is an American author, chess player and former securities trader. While...

Chris Lewis

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Chris Lewis is a Canadian expert on Usenet and spam. He is perhaps best known for his work in writing and running auto-cancelers for newsgroup...
Ed Conrad

Ed Conrad

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Ed Conrad is a part-time journalist, dealer in antiques, and critic of the theories of human evolution. His notoriety stems from his vast posting...

Rich Salz

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Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of Datapower, which was recently acquired by IBM. He has made numerous contributions to recent work...

Rick Adams

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Rick Adams was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service Provider...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...

Joel Furr

male, 42 years old
Joel "Jay" K. Furr (born 1967 in Roanoke, Virginia) was a Usenet personality in the early and mid 1990s, immortalized in the newsgroups...
David Boothroyd

David Boothroyd

male, 37 years old
David Boothroyd (born November 9, 1972) is a British political researcher, author and local councillor. Boothroyd was born in Leeds. His family...