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Krol was born August 21, 1951, and raised in Chicago, Illinois.
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He is also the author of The Hitchhiker"s Guide to the Internet and The Whole Internet User"s Guide and Catalog. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois and spent his entire career there. In 1985, he began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Indeed, "Editor Krol was the network manager for the NCSA when the contract was received to establish the NSFNet, and led the team in the network development".
During this time, he published (through funding by the National Science Foundation), the 1987 popular user"s guide In 1989, he became the assistant director for Network Information Services, Computing and Communications Service Office, University of Illinois. In 1992, he published the popular user"s guide to the Internet, The Whole Internet User"s Guide and Catalog, which was noted by the New York Public Library as one of its Books of the Century in 1995.
In 2002 Krol retired from the University of Illinois after 29 years service.
