The New York Times reports that he died at his St. Helena, California home on Saturday.
Lynch held two management positions at pre-internet ARPANET nodes before later starting workshops to demonstrate the power of the internet for business. From the Times, on his early workshops that became Interop, once a massive computer exhibition:
Mr. Lynch required the attendees to adhere to TCP/IP, a language spoken by computers connected to the internet that was quickly becoming the industry standard.
... Within a decade, it had become one of the world’s largest computer exhibitions, helping to create a global community of specialists capable of supporting a networking standard that made it possible for all the world’s computers to share data. One computer industry analyst called it “the plumbing exhibition for the information age.”
[The New York Times]
