[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Sue Thomas]

Thanks Jeremy
Very helpful, especially the Postel list, and the Wikipedia link - had
no idea that was there!
Much appreciated
Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: jeremy hunsinger [mailto:jhuns at vt.edu] 
Sent: 05 March 2011 12:38
To: Sue Thomas
Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not*
from North America

The list of Postel award winners:

http://www.isoc.org/awards/postel/awards.shtml


and of course:

Dr. Jun-ichiro "Itojun" Hagino

Linus Torvalds

Julian Assange

Tim Berners-Lee

Robert Calliau  (most people here:
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/People.html)

Faruouk Kamoun

Alan Amtage

i could probably go on with research.

there is also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_personalities_by_country
which is a different kind of internet fame