Czech Jan Gruntorád becomes first Central European Internet Hall of Famer

Jan Gruntorád, the former director of Cesnet who played a key role in connecting the Czechoslovakia to the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, has been inaugurated into the Internet Hall of Fame, news site Novinky.cz reported on Wednesday. He is not only the first Czech to enter the Internet Hall of Fame, but also the first person from Central and Eastern Europe.

The Internet Hall of Fame is a project established by the international organisation Internet Society in 2012. Its stated purpose is to "publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of visionaries, leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global Internet".