Ed Krol
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Ed Krol is an important figure in Internet history. He was the network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet and The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
Background
Krol was raised in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and spent his entire career there.NCSA and NIS
In 1985, he began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Indeed, "Ed Krol was the network manager for the NCSA when the contract was received to establish the NSFNet, and led the team in the network development" [link]. During this time, he published (through funding by the National Science Foundation), the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (August 25, 1987) [link], "because he had so much trouble getting information and was sick of telling the same story to everyone" [link]. It was eventually published by O'Reilly, though a digital catalog related to the text was published online [link].In 1989, he became the assistant director for Network Information Services, Computing and Communications Service Office, University of Illinois. In 1992, he published the popular user's guide to the Internet, The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
Works
- The Whole Internet: The Next Generation (1999)
- The Whole Internet for Windows 95 (1995)
- ''["What is the Internet?"], with E. Hoffman (1993)
- Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog (1992)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (1987)
See also
External links
- [Biography]
- [Krol takes time for self, travel and volunteering during retirement]
- [e-text of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet] at Project Gutenberg
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