The real “poor man’s Arpanet”? A conversation about Unix networks with Kilnam Chon, godfather of the Asian Internet
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2 octobre 2021
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UUCP Unix Usenet South-Korea Asia pioneer history oral historySujets proches
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Camille Paloque-Bergès, « The real “poor man’s Arpanet”? A conversation about Unix networks with Kilnam Chon, godfather of the Asian Internet », HAL-SHS : histoire, ID : 10.1080/24701475.2021.1982167
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Chon is an archetypal figure of Internet pioneer – and more specifically of “Global connector”, as he is acknowledged in the Internet Hall of Fame. He is a computer scientist who, thanks to an exemplary international academic trajectory and good socio-professional and political connections, got an early taste of Internet technologies. He played a leading role when South Korea joined the global race in technological innovation, and is generally considered key to the entrance of the Internet on the Asian continent. I wanted to discuss with Chon about the hypothesis that himself and his peers from South Korea and Asia got a kickstart from Unix culture and did initially follow UUCP routes, in close connection with their Internet pioneering.