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Steve Crocker

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Steve Crocker · Technology & Engineering

What

Created the RFC series and helped develop early Internet protocols.

When

1944, Pasadena, California, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Steve Crocker is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Created the RFC series and helped develop early Internet protocols.

How & why

Crocker is an American Internet pioneer who created the Request for Comments (RFC) series in 1969 and helped develop the early ARPANET protocols that became the foundation of the Internet. He later chaired ICANN's board. He is Jewish, born in California.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science

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Created the RFC series and helped develop early Internet protocols.

1944

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science