Internet the place where the you can have a
great appetite for the year long history, Roam the world, Stay Connected, this
all happened with the efforts of the all of them.
From it’s birth in the lab of Tim Berners, to
its evolution with the WWW its has got the world inside now.
NO ONE CAN REPLACE IT, NOTHING IS LIKE IT,
AND IT HAS NO ALTERNATIVE
It is like a gold mine which is never ending,
and with the passing time the craziest ideas in the human minds made this God
gift, adorable to human beings.
To start with the list, Undoubtedly on 1st
is
1.Sergey Brin and Larry
Page– Google Inc.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Two PhDs from
Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were
defiantly not building steam engines!
They were, however, creating the
internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably
the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history.
This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school
students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over
the internet.
Google was first launched on Stanford’s website
(google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated
that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.
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2. Jerry Yang and
David Filo Yahoo! Inc.
David Filo and Jerry Yang
Yahoo! too is
the creation of two Stanford University’s Electrical Engineer graduates, called
Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and
named it “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Then, he decided to switch it to
Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo
In December
1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits.
Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified
Yahoo! as a web portal.
David Filo’s net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and
Jerry Yang’s is $2.3 billion dollars.
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3. Bill gates-
Microsoft! inc.
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William Henry “Bill” Gates III,
is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest
person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company
he founded with Paul Allen.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of
the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has
pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to
various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates also holds
the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive
years.
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4.Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.
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Steven Paul Jobs is the
co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation
Studios.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,
created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the
early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the
mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)
After losing a power struggle
with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT,
a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and
business markets.
Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company’s largest
individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered
a leading figure in both the computer and industries.
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5.Jack Dorsey – Twitter
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Jack Dorsey is an American
software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter.
BusinessWeek called him one of technology’s “best and brightest”. MIT’s
Technology Review named him to the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age
of 35.
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that
enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are
text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page
and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Senders
can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow
open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short
Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing
to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider
fees.
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6.Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
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One of the most admired and successful
youngster of the 21st century is a 24 years old Harvard graduate – the world’s
youngest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion
He founded
Facebook, the online social networking website. Zuckerberg launched The Facebook
(FaceMatch) from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and started promoting it to all
Ivy League schools and some Boston institutions.
Soon, he bought over
Facebook.com domain name. Facebook is now a household name with people of all
ages, groups and interests, interacting with each other. Its business and
pleasure at the same time!
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7. Blake Aaron Ross – Mozilla
Firefox
Blake_Ross
Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12,
1985) is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla
web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave
Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a
contractor at the Mozilla Foundation. In 2005, he was nominated for Wired
magazine’s top Rave Award, Renegade of the Year, opposite Larry Page, Sergey
Brin and Jon Stewart. He was also a part of Rolling Stone magazine’s 2005 hot
list
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8 . Orkut Buyukkokten –
Orkut
Orkut Buyukkokten
Orkut Buyukkokten (February 6, 1975 in Konya,
Turkey) is a Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking
service Orkut.
Originally from Turkey Konya,
Buyukkoktenobtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information
Science from Bilkent University in Ankara, and earned a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search
and efficient PDA.
Orkut started working at Google in 2002 and
is one of its top employees.
He developed Orkut.com, the 3rd largest
social network in the world, as a 20% independent project while working at
Google. In late June 2004, Affinity Engines filed suit against Google, claiming
that Buyukkokten and Google based Orkut.com on code for InCircle, an application
intended for university alumni groups. The allegation is based on the alleged
presence of nine identical bugs in Orkut.com and in InCircle.
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9 . Kevin Rose – Digg
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You all know Kevin, don’t you?
Perhaps one of the most respected internet idealist and TV show host, Kevin Rose
has definitely placed a huge impacts among all Digg users.
He became well
known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV’s popular
show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! ) until his
departure from the network on May 2005.
He also co-founded Pownce and
Revision3 besides his popular Digg.com, social-bookmarking website. He created
Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer who Kevin Rose paid $12 per hour
through eLance.
Kevin Rose later bought Digg.com domain name for $1,200 and
then went on to buy larger server space. Digg received an ultra boost of
capitals when they received $2.8 million of venture capital from Omidyar
Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners.
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10 . Bram Cohen – BitTorrent
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Best known as the developer,
co-founder and author behind peer-to-peer sharing, Bram Cohen is the inventor of
BitTorrent. The other day a cousin of mine said “Bit Torrent has made life
easier!” That’s how easily we can sum up the achievements of this man.
Bram
Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he
quit his job at MojoNation to work in BitTorrent. He firstly revealed his ideas
in a CodeCon conference and started luring beta testers by collecting free
pornography.
He then spent some time working with Valve, but quit his job
later to work in BitTorrent Inc. with his brother and business partner Mike
Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment.
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11 . Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
jimmy-walesJimmy Wales is the co-founder of
Wikipedia: a free and open content encyclopedia launched in 2001. He is also the
co-founder of Wikia, a privately own web hosting company set up in
2004.
Jimmy Wales at first started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia
which is Nupedia. He then utilized the ideas of Nupedia with his “wiki” software
to form today’s Wikipedia.
His work with Wikipedia, which has become the
world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006
list of the world’s most influential people.
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12 . Chad Hurley and Steve Chen –
YouTube
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Chad Hurley
(aged 28) and Steve Chen (aged 27) became the founders of the popular San Bruno,
California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of
videos on the Internet.
Chad Hurley used to work for eBay’s PayPal in the
designing department where he designed their logo. Together with PayPal
colleagues, Jared Karim and Steve Chen, Chad founded YouTube in 2005.
Google
later acquired YouTube at $1.65 billion dollars.
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13 . Jeff Preston Bezos –
Amazon
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Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman
of board, president and the chief executive officer of Amazon.com, a major
e-commerce company that sells goods through the Internet. His net worth is
currently at $8.2 billion dollars.
He was named Time magazine Person of the
Year in 1999.
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14 . Pierre Omidyar – eBay
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Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay, an
online auctioning marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. With a net worth
of about $7.7 billion dollars, Omidyar and his wife Pam, are one of those
entrepreneurs that go beyond doing profits, which is by contributing to
non-profits organizations and aiding start-ups.
He wrote the source code of
eBay when he was 28 years old in 1995. Initially, he decided to name his auction
site after his consulting firm, Echo Bay but unfortunately, echobay.com was
already taken. To save up his Internet service provider cost, he registered
eBay.com.
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15 . Jack Ma – Alibaba
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A similar site like ebay, was founded by Jack
Ma, in 1999. It is basically a China-based business marketplace site that serves
international businesses.
Alibaba Group then founded TaoBao.com, which is an
online auction website that is pretty much similar to eBay and instead of paying
through PayPal, TaoBao’s currency is AliPay. Yahoo Inc. then acquires 40% stocks
worth over $1 billion dollars.
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16 . Matt Mullenweg –
WordPress
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If it weren’t for Matt
Mullenweg creating WordPress, I would not have been here writing at this blog
and you all wouldn’t have been reading this article.
At the age of 19, he
invented the core of WordPress, and later on when he turned 24, quit his job at
CNET to fully focus on developing WordPress – a blogging platform.
He is also
the founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress as well as famous spam
fighter, Akismet.
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17 . Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide
Web
sir-tim-berners-leeSir Tim Berners-Lee; the
father of World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first
successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with
the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN.
Sir Tim
Berners-Lee is also the founder of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology which comprises of companies that are
willing to create standards and improvements of the Web.
From my point of
view, if it wasn’t for him, none of the above mentioned personalities
existed.
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18 . Linus Torvalds – Linux
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software
engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He
later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the
project’s coordinator.
Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he
developed “Freax” – a combination of “free”, “freak”, and the letter X to
indicate that it is a Unix-like system, but his friend Ari Lemmke, who
administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading,
named Torvalds’ directory linux.
Since Linux has had thousands of
contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution
to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what
new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.
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19 . Thomas Anderson –
MySpace
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Thomas “Tom” Anderson is
the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He is one of the people
identified as a founder of the site, along with CEO Chris DeWolfe.
Since
newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default “friend,” he has become
known as the face of MySpace. As of November 20, 2008, Tom has over 250 million
“friends”, a number which is constantly increasing due to new MySpace accounts
being created.
In 2003, working for eUniverse under the preview of Brad
Greenspan he and a few other eUniverse employs set up the first pages of MySpace
and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking
website in the United States, and is the most popular website for teenagers as
well.
Interesting Fact: According to several sources, in 1985 then
14-year-old San Pasqual High School (Escondido, California) student Tom Anderson
was a computer hacker operating under the alias “Lord Flathead“.
He was known
for leading a team that broke into Chase Manhattan Bank computers, altered
records and left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the
system he would destroy records. He was never charged.
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20 . Jon Postel – Internet
Pioneer
He was their from the beginning from the
creation of TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS and all the early protocols. He was the editor of
the Request For Comment(RFC) document series, and for administering the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority until his death.
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This list is not over, INTERNET is the
Building that is due to the great efforts of many people who have raised him
from the child.