People who changed the
INTERNET
The world has become
tightly connected since the internet.
The web itself has
replaced the practice of reading newspaper.
Most of us now
communicate through e-mails instead of paper
and pen. We now watch
networks or movies online, it has even
become a wide business
venture, so much so we can now make
purchase and pay our
bills through the internet. The web has
also transformed
friendships through various social media.
It also provides us
the possibility to reconnect with people from
our childhood and it
can be a life changing event.
Having a great idea is
one thing. Turning that idea into a
booming company
through innovation and execution is what
that matters most.
Here, these are the people who have the
biggest impact on the
direction of the web: past, present, and future.
They changed the
internet and revolutionized the way we
lead our lives today.
Just imagine the world without internet.
You can’t because it
has become our daily life.
1 # Vint Cerf And Bob
Kahn - Father of the Internet.
The Father of Internet
Vint Cerf, together with Bob Kahn
created the TCP/IP
suite of communication protocols. a
language used by
computers to talk to each other in a
network. Vint Cerf
once said that the internet is just a mirror of
the population and
spam is a side effect of a free service.
2 # Tim Berners-Lee =
Inventor of WWW.
Tim Berners-Lee
invented the World Wide Web. He wrote
the first web client
and server and designed a way to create
links, or hypertext,
amid different pieces of online information.
He now maintains
standards for the web and continues to
refine its design as a
director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
3 # Ray Tomlinson =
Father of Email.
Programmer Ray
Tomlinson, the Father of Email made it
possible to exchange
messages between machines in
diverse locations;
between universities, across continents,
and oceans. He came up
with the “@� symbol format fo
r e-mail addresses.
Today, more than a billion people around
the world type @ sign
every day.
4 # Michael Hart = The
birth of eBooks.
Michael Hart started
the birth of eBooks and breaks down
the bars of ignorance
and illiteracy. He created the Project
Gutenberg and was
considered world’s first electronic library
that changed the way
we read. The collection includes public
domain works and
copyrighted works with express permission.
5 # Gary Thuerk = The
first Email spam.
Spamming is an old
marketing technique. Gary Thuerk, sent
his first mass
e-mailing to customers over the Arpanet for
Digital’s new
T-series of VAX systems. What he didn’t
realize at the time
was that he had sent the world’s first spam.
6 # Scott Fahlman =
The first emoticon.
Scott Fahlman is
credited with originating the first ASCII-based
smiley emoticon, which
he thought would help to distinguish
between posts that
should be taken humorously and those of a
more serious nature.
Now, everybody uses them in messenger
programs, chat rooms,
and e-mail.
7 #Marc Andreessen =
Netscape Navigator.
Marc Andreessen
revolutionized Internet navigation. He came up
with first widely used
Web browser called Mosaic which was later
commercialised as the
Netscape Navigator. Marc Andreessen is
also co-founder and
chairman of Ning and an investor in several
startups including
Digg, Plazes, and Twitter.
8. Jarkko Oikarinen =
Internet Relay Chat, IRC.
Jarkko Oikarinen
developed the first real-time online chat tool
in Finland known as
Internet Relay Chat. IRC’s fame took off in
1991. When Iraq
invaded Kuwait and radio and TV signals were
shut down, thanks to
IRC though up-to-date information was able to be distribute.
9 # Robert Tappan
Morris = First Worm Virus.
The concept of a worm
virus is unique compare to the
conventional hacking.
Instead of getting into a network
themselves, they send
a small program they have coded to
do the job. From this
concept, Robert Tappan Morris created
the Morris Worm. It is
one of the very first worm viruses to be
sent out over the
internet that inadvertently caused many
thousands of dollars
worth of damage and loss of productivity
when it was released
in the late 80s
10 # David Bohnett -
Geocities.
David Bohnett founded
GeoCities in 1994, together with John Rezner.
It grew to become the
largest community on the Internet.
He pioneered and
championed the concept of providing free
home pages to everyone
on the web. The company shut down
the service on October
27, 2009.
11 # Ward Cunningham -
The first Wiki.
American programmer
Ward Cunningham developed the first
wiki as a way to let
people collaborate, create and edit online
pages together.
Cunningham named the wiki after the Hawaiian word
12 # Sabeer Bhatia -
Hotmail.
Sabeer Bhatia founded
Hotmail in which the uppercase
letters spelling out
HTML-the language used to write the
base of a webpage. He
got in the news when he sold the
free e-mailing service
, Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million.
He was awarded the
Entrepreneur of the Yearâ by
Draper Fisher
Jurvertson in 1998 and was noted by
TIME as one of the People
to Watch in international
business in 2002. His
most exciting acquisition of 2009
was Jaxtyr which he
believes is set to overtake Skype in terms of free global calling.
13 #Matt Drudge - The
Drudge Report.
Matt Drudge started
the news aggregation website The Drudge
Report. It gained
popularity when he was the first outlet to break
the news that later
became the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
14# Larry Page And
Sergey Brin - Google.
Larry Page and Sergey
Brin changed the way we search and
use the Internet. They
worked as a seamless team at the top
of the search giant.
Their company grew rapidly every year since
it began. Page and
Brin started with their own funds, but
the site quickly
outgrew their own existing resources.
They later obtain
private investments through Stanford.
Larry Page, Sergey
Brin and their company Google, continue to
favor engineering over
business.
15# Bill Gates -
Microsoft.
Bill Gates founded the
software company called Micro-Soft
a combination of microcomputer
software. Later on, Bill Gates
developed a new GUI
(Graphical User Interface) for a disk operating
system. He called this
new style Windows. He has all but accomplished
his famous mission
statement, to put â computer on every desk and
in every home at least
in developed countries.
16# Steve Jobs -
Apple.
Steve Jobs innovative
idea of a personal computer led him into
revolutionizing the
computer hardware and software industry.
The Apple founder
changed the way we work, play and communicate.
He made simple and
uncluttered web design stylish. The story
of Apple and Steve
Jobs is about determination, creative genius,
pursuit of innovation
with passion and purpose.
18 # Brad Fitzpatrick
- LiveJournal.
Brad Fitzpatrick
created LiveJournal, one of the earliest blogging
platforms. He is seen
on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz.
He is also the author
of a variety of free software projects such as
memcached, used on
LiveJournal, Facebook and YouTube.
LiveJournal continues
today as an online community where
people can share
updates on their lives via diaries and blogs.
Members connect by
creating a friends list that links to their pals recent entries.
19 # Shawn Fanning =
Napster.
Shawn Fanning
developed Napster, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program
designed to let music
fans find and trade music. Users put whatever
files they were
willing to share with others into special directories
on their hard drives.
The service had more than 25 million users
at its peak in 2001,
and was shut down after a series of high-profile
lawsuits, not before
helping to spark the digital music revolution
now dominated by
Apple. Napster has since been rebranded and acquired by Roxio.
Peter Thiel is one of
many Web luminaries associated with PayPal.
PayPal had enabled
people to transfer money to each other instantly.
PayPal began giving a
small group of developers access to its code,
allowing them to work
with its super-sophisticated transaction framework.
SENT BY MJ
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