majithia23 Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 Vint Cerf and Bob KahnFather 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.Tim Berners-LeeInventor 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).Ray TomlinsonFather 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 for e-mail addresses. Today, more than a billion people around the world type @ sign every day.Gary ThuerkThe 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.Scott FahlmanThe 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.Marc AndreessenNetscape Navigator. (wikipedia)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.Jarkko OikarinenInternet Relay Chat, IRC. (wikipedia)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.Robert Tappan MorrisFirst 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'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.Sabeer Bhatia Hotmail. (wikipedia)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 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.Larry Page and Sergey BrinGoogle. (wikipedia)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.Bill GatesMicrosoft. (wikipedia)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 "a computer on every desk and in every home". at least in developed countries.Steve JobsApple. (wikipedia)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.David Filo and Jerry YangYahoo. (wikipedia)David Filo and Jerry Yang started Yahoo! as a pastime and evolved into a universal brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."Shawn FanningNapster. (wikipedia)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 ThielPaypal. (wikipedia)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. Peter Thiel cofounded PayPal at age 31 and sold it to eBay four years later for $1.5 billion.Pierre Morad OmidyarEbay. (wikipedia)Pierre Omidyar set up an online marketplace that brought buyers and sellers together as never before, and pioneered the concept of quantifying the trustworthiness of an anonymous user. In building his auction empire, Omidyar counted on the power of the individual. Omidyar's greatest strength is his insight into human nature. He understood that people would buy just about anything. one man's junk is, in fact, another's treasure.Jimmy WalesWikipedia. (wikipedia)Jimmy Wales founded the world's largest encyclopaedia which carries articles that can easily be edited by anyone who can access the website. It was launched in 2001 and is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet.Niklas ZennstromSkype. (wikipedia)Niklas Zennstrom co-founded the fastest growing communications trend in history called Skype. It offered consumers worldwide a free software for making superior-quality calls using their computer and expanded its offering for Linux, MAC & PC and mobile/ handheld devices.Bram CohenBit Torrent. (wikipedia)If Napster started the first generation of file sharing , Bram Cohen changed the face of file sharing by developing BitTorrent which has a massive following of users almost instantly. It uses the Golden Rule principle: the faster you upload, the faster you are allowed to download. BitTorrent breaks up files into many little portions, and as soon as a user has a piece, they instantly start uploading that part to other users. So almost everybody who is sharing a given file is simultaneously uploading and downloading pieces of the same file.Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed KarimYoutube. (wikipedia)Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim met as early employees at PayPal. They later started the internet's most popular video-sharing site YouTube which is broadcasting more than 100 million short videos daily on myriad subjects. When creating YouTube, the three divided work based on skills: Chad Hurley designed the site's interface and logo. Steve Chen and Jawed Karim divide technical duties making the site work. They later split management tasks, based on strengths and interests: Chad Hurley became CEO; Steve Chen, Chief Technology Officer. A year and a half later, Google acquired YouTube for a deal worth $1.65 billion in stock.Craig NewmarkCraigslist. (wikipedia)Craig Newmark started a site that dramatically altered the classified advertising universe called Craiglist. It was an object of fear for newspapers who felt threatened by the free-for-all classified advertising site. It began as an e-mail list for Newmark's friends in the Bay Area. Since then, it has grown into an online database for classified ads for those seeking everything from housing to romance. Julian AssangeWikiLeaks. (wikipedia)Julian Assange founded a website dedicated to publishing classified documents stolen from around the world. He designed an advanced software for the Wikileaks shielding the identities of the thieves who steal these documents by completely erasing their identities before spreading the stolen documents to servers 'all over the world'. As a result, no one can trace who's given him what or when. The site depicts itself as the "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis" and has developed to be regarded as the most extensive and safest stage for whistleblowers to leak to.Mark ZuckerbergFacebook. (wikipedia)Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook to help students in universities keep in touch with friends. The "status update" started its rebirth in Facebook, where user after user tell their extended network of trusted friends what they're doing. They also show off photos, upload videos, chat, make friends, meet old ones, join causes, groups, have fun and throw virtual sheep at one another. The site, which is believed to have 500 million registered users worldwide, has only four remaining countries left to conquer: Russia, Japan, China and Korea, according to Zuckerberg. Facebook is now twice as huge as Rupert Murdoch's MySpace.Jack DorseyTwitter. (wikipedia)Jack Dorsey created Twitter to allow friends and family know what he was doing. The world's fastest-growing communications medium let users broadcast their thoughts in 140 characters or less and repost someone else's informative or amusing message to their own Twitter followers by Retweeting. No one thought people would want to follow strangers, or that celebrities would use Twitter to tell fans of their activities, or that businesses would use Twitter to announce discounts or launch new products.Jeff BezosAmazon. (wikipedia)Jeff Bezos founded the world's biggest online store known as Amazon, which was originally named Cadabra Inc. He made online shopping faster and more personal than a trip to the local store. The company now introduced Kindle allowing readers to download books and other written materials and read them on this handheld device.IT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 quite systematic about who I like and adore, whom I don't or even hate!One's that made millions- they work appears to me as bad job, the ones that did it in philanthropic/altruistic drive- they do have my respects!Would that be down to me I'd change few names on/off the list :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majithia23 Posted March 9, 2011 Author Share Posted March 9, 2011 well , yeah we all have our choices and prejudices ,,,, and its not my personal list as to who i think is instrumental or important .but rather compiled by some tech site , as to who they think are worth making up to the distinguished list of honors .. there are some who duly deserve the mention for what they really did and contribute towards the development of the internet , as it stands today . like the tcp/ip protocols , www , modems , e-mails .....and some who just went up with an idea , commercialized it , made big bucks , and all that stuff , but deserve the mention due to the large impact there idea has had on what / or how we use or perceive the internet today ... say facebook , ....even MS Gates has always been surrounded in controversies many times . bad marketing policies , spurious codes , unethical behaviors .....it has always remained like this .A.Hitler might not be everyones favorite but his role in shaping the face of this world due to his actions cannot be ignored ...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nima Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I could not find my name, probably writting issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Ricky TomlinsonFather of Email My Arse :lmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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