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Digital and Networked Media Pioneers

Figures who invented or pioneered the technologies and practices of internet-era media: podcasting, blogging and syndication, and early social networking. Belongs here: technologists and early practitioners who built the tools and platforms of digital and networked media. Does not belong here: figures whose pioneering work predates networked digital media, or executives who later built large streaming or platform companies without originating the underlying technology, grouped under industrialists, publishers and executives.

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1969 1
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of the Internet, ARPANET section
Quote, Wikipedia: History of the Internet, ARPANET section
The first ARPANET link was established between the Network Measurement Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science led by Leonard Kleinrock, and the NLS system at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) led by Douglas Engelbart in Menlo Park, California at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969.
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