Firsts Quote by Jon Postel

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

— Greil Marcus

When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and…

— Pavel Durov

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic…

— Joshua Lederberg

Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge - I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a…

— Joe Lonsdale

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join…

— Lewis Schiff

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

— Paula Broadwell

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

— Vivek Wadhwa

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

— Dana Snyder

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

— Al Gore

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

— Josh Rosen

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

When I first met Hef, I was a co-ed at UCLA.

— Barbi Benton