Kanchana Kanchanasut
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The computer scientist credited with bringing the internet to Thailand, and with obtaining the country's domain.
Securing a country-code domain sounds administrative and is closer to foundational: it is the point at which a country stops being a set of hosts inside somebody else's namespace and becomes an addressable place with its own registry, its own policy and its own dispute over who runs it. Nearly every national internet story in this catalogue has that moment in it, and it is almost always accomplished by one or two academics doing paperwork nobody else understood the importance of.
Also known as: kanchanasut, thailand internet, .th