Role Author Name Ed Krol | Subject The Internet Genre Technology | |
Born August 21, 1951 (age 73) USA ( 1951-08-21 ) Notable works Hitchhiker's Guide to the InternetWhole Internet User's Guide and Catalog Books Whole Internet User's Gu, Cal 98 Whole Internet, The Whole Internet for Windows, The Whole Internet: The Next, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet | ||
Alma mater University of Illinois | ||
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Ed Krol was the network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet and The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog.
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Background
Krol was born August 21, 1951, and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and spent his entire career there.
Career
In 1985, he began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Indeed, "Ed Krol was the network manager for the NCSA when the contract was received to establish the NSFNet, and led the team in the network development". During this time, he published (through funding by the National Science Foundation), the 1987 popular user's guide Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet. In 1989, he became the assistant director for Network Information Services, Computing and Communications Service Office, University of Illinois.
In 1992, he published the popular user's guide to the Internet, The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, which was noted by the New York Public Library as one of its Books of the Century in 1995.
In 2002 Krol retired from the University of Illinois after 29 years service.