Vinton Cerf

Coinventor of TCP/IP 1974 and considered worldwide as “father of the Internet”

Dave Farber

Implemented and provided CSNet software worldwide also for Univ. KA 05/1984

Steve Goldstein

Gave NSF-support to countries all over the world to set up Internet connections, also Univ. KA 11/1989

Robert Kahn

Coinventor of TCP/IP 1974 and considered worldwide as “father of the Internet”

Daniel Karrenberg

Cofounder of RIPE 1989, the pan-european registry above the national top level domains, e.g. DE

Peter Kirstein

1st Arpanet node outside USA 1973 at UCL, UK, granted Univ. KA E-mail- access 11/83

Leonard Kleinrock

Applied queueing theory to packet network design and hosted one of the 4 initial Arpanet cornerstones nodes 1969

Lawrence H. Landweber

Paved the way for Internet with CSNet 1981 and his International Academic Networkshop (IANW) including Univ. KA 1984 – 1989

Raymond Tomlinson

Developed email 1973 as we know it today with @ as its trademark

Stephen Wolff

NSF director Networking Division, approved 11/1987 the Karlsruhe email connection with China

Werner Zorn

Created the Infrastructure to connect Germany to the Internet.