I was along for the ride on most of this. Except for Linus Torvolds, I met and/or worked with the people mentioned ( I have a few stories about Richard Stallman ). I often tell the story about delivering a talk at a conference on some technology I funded and worked on called RAID ( G. Gibson, et al at Berkely in 1989 while I worked at NASA ). Sitting the the front row was Dennis Ritchie. Me, lecturing Dennis Ritchie about Unix File Systems. I also wrote IMP code while taking a course on the Arpanet in 1977. My first minicomputer was a PDP-11 running Unix from Bell Labs in 1975 ( as an undergraduate in college ).
Number of people were left out, Bill Joy and Sam Leffler who created the Berkely networking stack using TCP, Mike Muuss at the Army BRL who in 1980 started requiring supercomputers to run Unix... John Postel, the inventor of DNS, they way we map a domain name like democraticunderground.com to an IP address. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, the inventors of the Arpanet / Internet. And, yes, Al Gore who, as a Senator, authored the law that allowed commercial use of the Internet. I sat in a few meetings with AL Gore when he was Vice President when EOSDIS was designed, the program by NASA for the central collection and distribution of Climate Change data.
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