Jake Baker

male, 35 years old
American Internet personality, University of Michigan, US v. Baker, alt.sex.stories, Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz, American Internet celebrity…usenet
Jake Baker (born March 1974; given name Abraham Jacob Alkhabaz) was a student at the University of Michigan College for Literature, Science, and...
S. M. Stirling

S. M. Stirling

male, 56 years old
From Metz, Scots-Irish American, usenet, World War II, militarism, Go Tell the Spartans
Stephen Michael Stirling is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling was born in Metz, France on September 30, 1953 to an English...

John Bailey

male, 78 years old
John Pearse, Dartmouth, Devon, Camden Town, Appalachian dulcimer, piraeus, Regents Park…usenet
John Bailey (born 1931) is a Luthier who made and repaired guitars and other stringed instruments during the 1960s revival of English folk music...
Mark P. McCahill

Mark P. McCahill

male, 53 years old
usenet, University of Minnesota, CDC Cyber, Peter J. Deutsch, Archie search engine, Apple II
Mark P. McCahill (born February 7, 1956) has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s....

Gene Ward Smith

male, 62 years old
mathematician, usenet, American music theorist, Music theorist, American, Galois theory
Gene Ward Smith (born 1947) is an American mathematician, composer and music theorist. In mathematics he has worked in the areas of Galois theory...

Laurence Godfrey

male, 57 years old
usenet, cern, libel, Physics Lecturer, Dr. Laurence Godfrey, Phillip Hallam-Baker
Dr. Laurence Godfrey (born 21 November 1952, London, England) established a legal precedent for libel on Usenet, in the landmark Godfrey v. Demon...
Daniel J. Bernstein

Daniel J. Bernstein

male, 38 years old
Bellport, protected speech, computer software, Post Office Protocol, Daniel Julius Bernstein, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol…usenet
Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a...
Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti

male, 70 years old
San Diego State University faculty, University of California, San Diego alumni, Cornell University alumni, Science writer, University of California, Riverside alumni, science teacher…usenet
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and...

Wesley R. Elsberry

male, 49 years old
zoology, usenet, American, marine biology, marine biologist, Creation-evolution controversy
Dr. Wesley Royce Elsberry (born January 23, 1960) is a marine biologist with an interdisciplinary background in zoology, computer science, and...

Rick Gates

male
Internet history, University of Arizona, Interpedia, NCSA Mosaic, The Internet Hunt, Douglas P. Wilson…usenet
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...