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September 17, 2025, Quitman Free Press, Page 3

Doc’s Special Messages
By: Dr. R. Marie Horne MD

Quintessential Mr. Quarterman

Some South Georgians have made numerous contributions to the South Georgia area and have rendered enormous contributions to national and global society as well. One of these South Georgia notables is Mr. John S. Quarterman, a longtime South Georgia resident who has a perpetual passion for navigating activism in protection of waterways, specifically those which impact area communities, as the WWALS Watershed Coalition’s Suwannee Riverkeeper, who takes seriously and enthusiastically his stewardship over protecting the Suwannee River Basin in South Georgia and North Florida.

Quitman Free Press, 2025-09-17 –Dr. Marie Horne

Having hailed from the Bemiss Community in Lowndes County Georgia, near Valdosta, studied at Harvard, authored in 1990, the book entitled, “The Matrix, Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide,” Mr. John Quarterman became the “longest serving cartographer of the Internet, a designation “dubbed by Mappa Mundi Magazine” in 1990.

The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, 1989-10-16 –John S. Quarterman; see https://archive.org/details/matrixcomputernet00quar

Mr. Quarterman’s astonishing contributions in [I]nternet history and his “Matrix Maps” facilitation in the [I]nternet development history is notable and is the impetus for his well-deserved recognition and his 2025 Inductee status in the Internet Hall of Fame.

John S. Quarterman, 2025 Inductee, 2025-09-17 —Internet Hall of Fame

A published entry from the Internet Hall of Fame underscores just how salient Mr. John Quarterman’s impact in [I]nternet history is, and has been noted in the following I quote: “Little did he know at the time that one of his “Matrix Maps” Charts, published in 1994, caught the eye of a young Jeff Bezos who saw something in them that Quarterman had not: an immediate huge business opportunity on the World Wide Web.

Internet Resource Discovery Services By Bytes, 1994-04-01 —Matrix News

According to Bezos’s biographer, the chart is what inspired Bezos to launch Amazon, as he saw a business opportunity in the Internet’s rapid growth. It is impossible to know all the ways in which the Matrix Maps have shaped decisions by engineers, governments and investors.”

The Everything Store, 2024-08-12 — Brad Stone

Mr. John Quarterman is diversified in technological savvy, waterway activism, and in his enjoyable propagation of his family’s passion and legacy of tilling the soil on land which his grandfather purchased in 1921.

The Quintessential Mr. Quarterman has demonstrated a heroic and diversified role in generating productive societal change which has generated the betterment of humanity not only in our regional area but worldwide. The inclusion photos reflect the photographic essence of the heroic Mr. John Quarterman.

John S. Quarterman at WWALS Black Moon Paddle, Banks Lake, 2025-08-23 — Gretchen Quarterman for WWALS

I, Dr. R. Marie Horne MD and the QFP Readership applaud the exemplary lifetime efforts of Mr. John Quarterman’s to render betterment of the global society!

The left-hand picture was erroneous, so I’ve replaced it with this one.

Floridan Aquifer, Right to Clean Water, 2022-06-11 Waterkeeper Alliance Global Conference –jsq for WWALS

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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