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This article is a tribute to Jonathan B. Postel, a computer scientist best known for his role in creating the Internet and operating the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). He has left a monumental legacy for all Internauts to contemplate. He was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board and served continuously from its founding to the present. He loved the outdoors. He used to enjoy backpacking in the high Sierras around Yosemite, California. He inspired loyalty and steadfast devotion among his friends and colleagues. For author, he personified the words "selfless service." It seems almost impossible to avoid feeling an enormous sense of loss, as if a yawning gap in their networked universe had opened up and swallowed their friend. He leaves a legacy of edited documents that tell a collective Internet story, including not only the technical but also the poetic and whimsical as well. He completed the incorporation of a successor to his service as IANA and leaves a lasting legacy of service to the community in that role. His memory is rich and vibrant and will not fade from their collective consciousness

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The Internet has revolutionized computers and communications world like nothing before. The telegraph, telephone, radio and computer have all set the stage for the Internet's unprecedented integration of capability. The Internet is at once a worldwide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location. The Internet also represents one of the most successful examples of sustained investment and commitment to research and development in the information infrastructure. Beginning with early research in packet switching, the government, industry, and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying the Internet, the exciting new technology. The Internet today is a widespread information infrastructure, the initial prototype of what is often called the National Information Infrastructure. Its history is complex and involves many aspects like, technological, organizational and community.