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scientists This page looks at individual biographies and memoirs of the scientists/engineers who built the internet and the web. (There's more extensive coverage on the 'history' page) Vinton Cerf's memoir for the Smithsonian oral history program is online. He also wrote a brief memoir in 1993.  Snapshots of Licklider, Baran and other fathers of the Net are online as part of Hafner's disappointingly thin 'Wizards' site. Robert Kahn, former DARPA/ARPANET guru and knowbot inventor, has a staid bio on the Corporation for National Research Initiatives site.  Jon Postel, another progenitor of the Internet, is commemorated on the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) site.    next page  (prophets)