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Mark Nichols

Internet Globalization & eCommerce Pioneer

[13] Exhibit 13: Ron Higgins fax on Digital Island letterhead identifying Allan Leinwand as CTO (July 8, 1996)
[15] Exhibit 15: WIRED
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Affordable Home Act
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Business Registration 9/6/1996
Business Registration Record for Digital Island
BusinessWeek Nov 7, 1996
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Carrier v. Einstein
Chase Capital Partners
ChatGPT Forensic Audit: Digital Island Origin Conflict (1996–1997)
China 1998
Cisco 1996
Cisco Systems Remote Data Services Agreement
Cliff Higgerson, VC 1996
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Copilot Forensic Summary: Digital Island Origins
Digital Island
Digital Island S-1
Dot-Com Bubble
E*TRADE 1998
Email Referencing Merchant Transport
Employment Agreement 8/5/1996
Employment Agreement, Mark Nichols
Evidence Press Release Archive
Exhibit 11: Darren Hong Digital Island Hired 1996
Exhibit 14: Press CNET News.com
Exhibit: ARIN Confirms AS6553 Issued to Digital Island on Aug 29, 1996
Genesis Global Network Diagrams
Google 1998
Grok Forensic Audit: Digital Island Founding and Offering Conflict
IHOF 2025
IHOF Nomination – Andrew McCollum
IHOF Nomination – Andy Rubin
IHOF Nomination – Barbara van Schewick
IHOF Nomination – Biz Stone
IHOF Nomination – Brian Chesky
IHOF Nomination – Caterina Fake
IHOF Nomination – CERN
IHOF Nomination – Chad Hurley
IHOF Nomination – Chris Hughes
IHOF Nomination – Dan Connolly
IHOF Nomination – Daniel Ek
IHOF Nomination – Dave Cutler
IHOF Nomination – Dave Raggett
IHOF Nomination – Dustin Moskovitz
IHOF Nomination – Eduardo Saverin
IHOF Nomination – Elon Musk (Starlink & PayPal)
IHOF Nomination – Evan Williams
IHOF Nomination – Garrett Camp
IHOF Nomination – IETF Volunteers
IHOF Nomination – Jack Dorsey
IHOF Nomination – Jawed Karim
IHOF Nomination – Jeff Bezos
IHOF Nomination – Joe Gebbia
IHOF Nomination – Jonathan Abrams
IHOF Nomination – Joyce K. Reynolds
IHOF Nomination – Kevin Systrom
IHOF Nomination – Kirk Lougheed
IHOF Nomination – Larry Page
IHOF Nomination – Lars-Johan Liman
IHOF Nomination – Leonard Bosack
IHOF Nomination – Marco Börries
IHOF Nomination – Mark McCahill
IHOF Nomination – Mark Zuckerberg
IHOF Nomination – Martin Lorentzon
IHOF Nomination – Max Levchin
IHOF Nomination – Mike Krieger
IHOF Nomination – MIT
IHOF Nomination – Nathan Blecharczyk
IHOF Nomination – Nicola Pellow
IHOF Nomination – Noah Glass
IHOF Nomination – Patrik Fältström
IHOF Nomination – Pei-Yuan Wei
IHOF Nomination – Peter Löthberg
IHOF Nomination – Peter Thiel
IHOF Nomination – Pierre Omidyar
IHOF Nomination – Reid Hoffman
IHOF Nomination – Roy Fielding
IHOF Nomination – Sally Floyd
IHOF Nomination – Sandy Lerner
IHOF Nomination – Sergey Brin
IHOF Nomination – Stanford University
IHOF Nomination – Steve Chen
IHOF Nomination – Steve Jobs
IHOF Nomination – Steve Wozniak
IHOF Nomination – Stewart Butterfield
IHOF Nomination – Ted Nelson
IHOF Nomination – Tom Jennings
IHOF Nomination – UC Berkeley
IHOF Nomination – UCLA
IHOF Nomination – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
IHOF Nomination – USC
IHOF Nomination – Ward Christensen
IHOF Nomination – Ward Cunningham
IHOF Nomination – World Wide Web Consortium
IHOF Nomination – Xerox PARC
Infrastructure Activation vs End-to-End Transport Semantics: Why TCP/IP and the Web Are Not the Internet Utility
Infrastructure Procurement Shipment Invoices
Intel Foundry and Broadcom
LLM Founding and Founders of Digital Island Evidence Vault
LLM Founding and Founders of Digital Island Evidence Vault (JSON)
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MasterCard 1999
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Merrill Lynch
Microsoft-Intel-Compaq 2000
Most Transformative Event In Human History
MOU Suggestion for Intel Foundry and Apple
NVIDIA is not COKE
Press Release Announcing Cisco as First Digital Island Customer
Protocol Architects Are Not the Creators of the Internet
Ron Higgins and the Hawaii Fiber Access Misstatements
S-1
Sitemap
Smartvision 1994
Smartvision renamed to Digital Island
Stanford 1997
Stop Calling Protocol Architects “Creators of the Internet”
Sun Microsystems 1999
The 1996 Google Gemini Operational Audit: Resolving the Digital Island Timeline
The 2000ms Event Horizon
The Cost
The Historical Context of Using the Web Application on the Internet Platform
The Internet Is a Network of Networks, Not a Protocol
The Pacific Foundry Accord
Who Made the Internet

[13] Exhibit 13: Ron Higgins fax on Digital Island letterhead identifying Allan Leinwand as CTO (July 8, 1996)