Will Doherty
(October 31, 1962 - living) U.S.A.
Activist
Founder and initial Executive Director of the Online Policy Group and an online activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF); former Director of Online Community Development at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and manager of GLAAD's Digital Media Resource Center in San Francisco.
"In 1983, I was general coordinator of Gays at MIT (GAMIT) and was working at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, an engineering lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that was very involved in setting up the infrastructure of the Internet. The Internet infrastructure would crash frequently, and I would have to reboot the computers that were critical to the Internet - computers that still required paper tape and had clunky readers. We did all sorts of leftist activism using the precursor to the Internet, which was rather ironic since much of the funding came from the Department of Defense."
From: Ellis, Alan, ed. The Harvey Milk Institute Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendeered, and Queer Internet Research, p. 45
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