Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn (TCP/IP), Paul Baran (packet switching), Tim Berners-Lee (WWW), Marc Andreesen (Netscape), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Douglas Engelbart (hypertext), Aaron Swartz (RSS, Creative Commons), Richard Stallman (GNU, free software movement), Van Jacobson (TCP/IP congestion control), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Mitchell Baker (Mozilla), Linus Torvalds (Linux)...
...but you’re missing the point of my comment, which is simply to acknowledge and honor (my late dear friend) Peter.
Ah, I missed Linus Torvalds and you might have missed Bob Metcalfe (Ethernet) and Jon Postel (RFC work).
My point was not do criticize the achievements of the work of any of those people.
1. I was not actively aware that this hall exists
2. I am mostly critical to such awards in general. I have noted that several companies receiving the "Export company of the year" here in this country (doesn't matter which one) have went bust a couple of years later. I received the "hacker of the year" award at my workplace some years ago. It was supposed to hang with all previous awards in the cafeteria. I did not like that and "forgot" it at home. I quit the company a year later anyway.
Edit: Forgot that I worked for the "software product of the year" twice in my life. One needed heavy, painful architectural rework 3 years later. The other was Series 60. People old enough know how that went, killed a global market leader.
I won't attack Mitchell, with whom I worked closely from 1999-2014. The issue is who in general gets credit for tech. Often it is not the key engineer but the front person. I'll stop here.
...but you’re missing the point of my comment, which is simply to acknowledge and honor (my late dear friend) Peter.