From Academia to Internet: Pioneers of EARN, NSFNET and RIPE The RIPE Labs Podcast

In this episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, three Internet pioneers talk about how they helped grow the Internet out of its early infancy, back when its purpose - and much of the excitement around its development - lay in the promise of connecting researchers from around the world.
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Show notes:00:03:22 - Daniel Karrenberg about the EUnet, the first pan-European Internet Service Provider (ISP)
00:11:18 - Dennis Jennings about his first encounter with networking and the birth EARN
00:17:40 - Daniele Bovio on the first international routing tables received via EARN and BITNET
00:22:48 - Daniel Karrenberg on Email gateways, email being the one application that worked across all networks
00:27:06 - The first transatlantic interconnection Daniel operated
00:29:18 - Dennis shares how he built NSFNET
00:32:05 - Dennis on why he decided to use TCP/IP protocol on NSFNET
00:35:39 - Daniel about the birth of RIPE and the need to coordinate IP addresses
00:41:02 - Dennis on designing the national general-purpose network of networks beyond supercomputers and its business model
00:48:29 - Daniele on EBONE, a pan-European Internet backbone
00:56:48 - Daniele on his work at America Online (AOL) and leasing transatlantic capacity
01:12:09 - EARN Panel at SEE 12
01:12:26 - the RIPE Community today
01:14:00 - Dennis Jennings shares top 3 important moments in the Internet history that he has personally overseen
01:21:00 - Daniele Bovio shares top 3 important moments in the Internet history that he has personally overseen

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