[ih] Yngvar Lunch has died -- the memorial service is tomorrow

[dave walden]

Internet pioneer Yngvar Lundh has died.

With Paal Spilling, Yngvar led Norway into the Internet world. The 
following paper which Yngvar gave me in early 2019 is his and Paal's 
story of their contribution.
https://walden-family.com/spilling-lundh-InternetHistory-final-2-VC%20edits.pdf
I will leave this on my website for a while.  I don't know where it was 
published.

Following is the death announcement from his local newspaper.

What I can make out from the announcement follows:

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image of boat -- Yngvar had a sailboat

good kind Yngvar, husband, father, grandfather and uncle
something about being in own home at death

his name and day he died

in a little while it will be so quiet here
in a little while it will be over
you got to see what you wanted
you got to hear your melody

in a little while
we will be gone
we may see each other again

Bente (wife)
Lise (daughter I assume)
I guess the others are the nephew and grandson

where and when the funeral service will be -- Valle church

something about flowers for the church's mission??

see the memorial page on the (funeral home) website -- I could not find 
a memorial page for Yngvar

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You can use google translate to read the following:

https://snl.no/Yngvar_Lundh

A piece by him published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 
in 2018
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2018/02/man2018020062/13rRUytWFbd
begins with this introduction by the Annals department editor:

Yngvar Lundh was instrumental in the development of some of Norway’s 
earliest digital computers, having started his investigation of digital 
electronics in the 1950s. He continued his involvement with digital 
computers and digital communications for the next 40 years. A 10 April 
2017 article about Lundh in the Norwegian online information and 
telecommunications newspaper digi.no quotes another pioneer of Norwegian 
computing, saying, “Yngvar Lundh is the most important person in 
Norwegian IT ever.”

Yngvar was a wonderful man and greatly respected in Norway as the father 
or Norwegian digital computing.  I first met Yngvar when I worked for 
Norsk Data in 1970-71. He was with the Norwegian Defense Research 
Establishment.  I met him again in Oslo, London, etc., during the early 
Internet days.  Over the years I saw him a few more times, including in 
2017 when he invited my wife and me to visit him in his home overlooking 
the Oslo Fjord in Tornsberg where we talked about sail boats. I 
corresponded with him by email a few times a year.  I learned the news 
of Yngvar's death when I sent an email to him a few days ago about 
early-days computing at MIT and he didn't respond.  I asked friends in 
Norway if they knew if he was having health problems and the shocking 
news above came back.  I will miss him.