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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
  • 1996 Engineering and Operational Emails
  • Affordable Home Act
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  • Business Registration 9/6/1996
  • Business Registration Record for Digital Island
  • BusinessWeek Nov 7, 1996
  • Career
  • 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
  • Contact
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • IHOF Nomination – Stanford University
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  • IHOF Nomination – Ted Nelson
  • IHOF Nomination – Tom Jennings
  • IHOF Nomination – UC Berkeley
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  • 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)
  • Mark Nichols – Home
  • MasterCard 1999
  • media
  • 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