Piet Beertema

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Piet Beertema
Born (1943-10-22) 22 October 1943 (age 81)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
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Piet Beertema, internetpioneer and founder of the .nl ccTLD, October 2024

Piet Beertema (born 22 October 1943 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch Internet pioneer. [1] On November 17, 1988, at 2:28 PM, he linked the Netherlands as one of the first two countries (shortly after France's INRIA) [2] [3] [4] to NSFNET, a precursor to the Internet. Beertema was then working as an administrator at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam. [5]

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His first job was in 1965 at the Dutch National Aerospace Laboratory, where he first came into contact with a computer (an Elliott 803-B). In 1966 he joined the SMC (Stichting Mathematisch Centrum), now called the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, where he worked until his retirement.

On April 1, 1984, Beertema created and posted to the Kremvax Usenet site posing as Konstantin Chernenko. Beertema's message greeted fellow users of Usenet on behalf of the Soviet Union and stated that one aim of them joining was to better present the views of the Soviet regime, alleging that the American administration were seeking war and world domination. The name Kremvax would subsequently be used by Vadim Antonov in 1991, when he became the first Moscovite to join usenet. [6]

On April 25, 1986, Beertema recorded the first country code top level domain .nl and solely managed it for ten years. [7] In 1996 he co-founded the Foundation for Internet Domain Registration Netherlands  [ nl ] that would take over the management of the .nl domain, after doing this himself for almost 10 years.

On June 9, 1999, he received a royal decoration, Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. On September 16, 2004, he officially retired.

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  1. ↑ van Ringelestijn, Tonie (2008-11-17). "20 jaar internet in Nederland en Europa". WebWereld (in Dutch). IDG Nederland. Retrieved 2011-01-24. Op 17 november 1988, om half drie 's middags, ontving systeembeheerder Piet Beertema van het CWI in Amsterdam het historische e-mailtje waarin stond dat het CWI, als eerste instelling buiten Amerika, was verbonden met NSFnet.
  2. ↑ "The path to digital literacy and network culture in France (1980s to 1990s)". The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. Taylor & Francis. 2017. pp. 84–89. ISBN   978-1317607656.
  3. ↑ [Et Dieu crea l'Internet, Christian Huitema, ISBN   2-212-08855-8, 1995, page 10]
  4. ↑ Andrianarisoa, Menjanirina (2 March 2012). "A brief history of the internet".
  5. ↑ "CWI History: details". CWI. Retrieved 2020-02-09.
  6. ↑ Schonfeld, Zach (April 2015). "'Kremvax': The Strange Story of the Internet's First April Fools' Prank". Newsweek. Newsweek LTD. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. ↑ (in English) (Our Milestones), Official website of SIDN
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