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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’s 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.
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.
wiki as a way to let people collaborate, create and edit online
pages together. Cunningham named the wiki after the Hawaiian word for “quick.”
12 # Sabeer Bhatia - Hotmail.
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 Year” 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.
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. (wikipedia)
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.
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 “a computer on every desk and
in every home”. at least in developed countries.
16# Steve Jobs - Apple.
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.
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.
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.
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.
