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by gizbot 4740 days ago
It started in 2012, which we all know as the real beginning of the Internet.
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Oh that makes sense, I was thinking "really, it took until 2013 to get RMS in there?" It seems like the internet hall of fame would almost be specifically created to contain Stallman.
Of COURSE if there is to be an Internet Hall of Fame, RMS has to be in it.

But they were between a rock and a hard place last year, given that the FSF was itself founded by RMS. They probably waited a year to avoid immediate whining of "RMS created an award to give to himself".

Out of curiosity, I took a look to last year's inductees, there are also a few famous name in there : Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, and others. http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/2012
Notably, in the privacy vein, Zimmermann was also inducted in 2012.
Indeed and it's a good thing they created all that GNU stuff in 2013 because obviously it didn't exist last year. :p