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  JOMC 50 Internet History--People 

  http://www.unc.edu/depts/jomc/academics/dri/pioneers2d.html

  Rob Glaser is the founder and CEO of RealNetworks , the leader in Internet streaming technology for video and audio. He worked for Microsoft for ten years before leaving to found RealNetworks. The first ... RealPlayer (an application that allows users to hear and see audio/video files) was released in 1995, and the company registered its 50 millionth user in January 1999. Glaser is also member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. Al Gore , on January 14, 1994, became the first U.S. vice president to hold a live interactive news conference on an international computer network. Gore has become the point man in the Clinton administration's effort to build a national information highway much as his father, former Senator Albert Gore, was a principal architect of the interstate highway system a generation or more earlier. The White House has taken a technological leap under Gore, who as a senator was known for his eagerness   [More...] [Less...]

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