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ISOC Live posted: "On April 30 2020, at 5pm EDT (21:00 UTC) Internet elders will gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1995 decommissioning of the NSFNET backbone, following the passage of Al Gore's High Performance Computing Act of 1991. This was the moment that the I" </span>
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<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/iid25" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ineternetindependenceday-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>April 30 2020</strong>, at <strong>5pm EDT</strong> (21:00 UTC) Internet elders will gather to mark the 25th anniversary of the 1995 decommissioning of the <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network" target="_blank">NSFNET backbone</a></strong>, following the passage of <strong>Al Gore</strong>'s <strong><a style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act_of_1991" target="_blank">High Performance Computing Act of 1991</a></strong>. This was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise.</p>
<p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">A select group of the elders including </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Jeff Jarvis</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (American journalist); </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Esther Dyson</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (first CEO of ICANN); </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">James Lewis</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (SVP CSIS); </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Tom Evslin</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (founder ITXC); </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Andrew Odlyzko</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (former Bell Labs and Prof U MN), </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Gary Shapiro</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, President, Consumer Technology Association, and </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Scott McNealy</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> (co-founder Sun Microsystems) will discuss how the Internet has developed since the </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://isoc.live/7746/">last such celebration</a></strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, 5 years ago. The event will be hosted by </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Daniel Berninger</strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> of VCXC, and webcast via a partnership with the </span><strong style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://isoc-dc.org/">Internet Society Washington DC Chapter</a> </strong><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">(ISOC-DC) </span></p>
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