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According to CNN.com: Internet pioneer Jon Postel dies at 55 Jon Postel, the computer pioneer who wielded enormous influence over technical details of the Internet, died of complications from heart surgery in Los Angeles on Saturday. Postel was considered by the White House as a crucial player in the future of the global computer network. Although he was scarcely known outside computer circles, Postel served as director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which matched unique numerical addresses for computers on the Internet with its millions of web addresses. William S. Duncanson [email protected] The driving force behind the NC is the belief that the companies who brought us things like Unix, relational databases, and Windows can make an appliance that is inexpensive and easy to use if they choose to do that. -- Scott Adams
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