Special Issue 5/1/02                                      Volume 11 No. 1
           In Memory of Michael Hauben: Discoverer of Netizens
 
[7]                    Giving Back to the World
                                       by Bill Steward
                                       seven@fox.nstn.ca

Like so many who learned from Michael's work, I only knew him on a
virtual level, through the Internet.  However, I knew a great deal
about the work he had done, and therefore felt the warmth and
admiration for him that one would feel for a good friend.  His
research and publications helped me tremendously in understanding the
context in which the Internet sits, and finding his writings on J. C.
R. Licklider and the Usenet were like discovering a wonderful window
into the history of the creation of the net.  It is appropriate that
he coined the term Netizen, for he was one of its best practitioners,
giving back to the world by leveraging the power of the net to provide
help and information to untold numbers of people across the world. He
set a great example we are well recommended to follow.  I'm sure he
already has a mailing list going in heaven.

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Reprinted from the Amateur Computerist Vol 11 No 1, May 1, 2002. 
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