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17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!
From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically, been around the world literally, and changed the way humans live permanently.
Nothing can replace it, nothing is like it, and it has no alternative. The internet is like a diamond mine for the people who wish to acquire wealth, a profound lake of information for those who have an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and an eternal form of entertainment for those wish to amuse themselves.
With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.
In no particular order, Skidzopedia provides you with a list of those people who have influenced the Internet greatly.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.
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.
David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.
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.
Bill Gates – Microsoft
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.
Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.
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.
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
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!
Kevin Rose – Digg
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.
Bram Cohen – BitTorrent
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
Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment
Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by Activision Blizzard.
He is best know for his creation of a popular online gaming fantasy, World of Warcraft (WoW). It has over 10 million online gamers, raking Morhaime at least $1.5 billion every year.
Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
Jimmy 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.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube
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.
Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon
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.
Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture
Inventor of Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platform, Shawn Fanning is a computer programmer who developed Napster when he was still pursuing his studies in Northeastern University, Boston.
Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately ended up causing the cessation of the service.
In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool that facilitates profiles and communications of online gamers in World of Warcraft.
Pierre Omidyar – eBay
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.
Jack Ma – Alibaba
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.
Craig Newmark – Craigslist
Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur that invented the Craigslist, with over 14.1 million page-views a month, Craigslist.org is one of the most visited website on the Internet.
Craigslist is a centralized network of communities, featuring free advertisements and forums on various topics.
Matt Mullenweg – WordPress
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.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web
Sir 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.
UPDATE (24/11/08)
Thomas Anderson – MySpace
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.
Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon
Garrett Camp is the co-founder as well as the chief architect of Stumbleupon, a social bookmarking site that lets you discover and share new websites from all over the world. StumbleUpon took-off in November 2001, and continued, until late 2005 when it was moved to San Francisco.
To be more precise, StumbleUpon was founded by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd during Garrett’s time in post-graduate school (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada).
The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O’Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco. Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith now reside in San Francisco, where StumbleUpon is headquartered.
According to its About page, Stumble Upon has over 6,443,266 users.The majority of which are between the ages of 18 and 45 (in English-speaking countries). Half in the United States, half abroad, and the majority using Firefox.
Linus Torvalds – Linux
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.
UPDATE (25/11/08)
Jon Postel – Internet Pioneer
Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death.
The Internet Society’s Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work.
In its infancy, Jon worked on its development, from its early protocols, to the creation of TCP/IP. Documenter and co-developer many of the key Internet standards, including TCP/IP (basic Internet protocols), SMTP (email transfer), and DNS (name servers).
Jon’s influence is felt throughout the Internet, in its protocols, in their documentation, in the DNS names we use and the ‘dot’ we use to separate them, and, in no small way, in the ‘good engineering’ that helped the Internet thrive from its inception in 1969 to today.
Caterina Fake – Flickr
Fake is best known as the co-founder, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.
Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Prior to founding Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing. She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August of 2008.
Stewart Butterfield
General Manager of Flickr In 2005. Butterfield was named one of Businessweek’s Top 50 Leaders in the entrepreneur category and was awarded a TR35 award as one of 35 top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT’s Technology Review. On 2006 he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Marc Andreessen – Netscape
Marc Andreessen is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.
He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites.
As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay.
Jack Dorsey – Twitter
Jack Dorsey is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter – a free social networking and micro-blogging service. 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.
Dorsey, Stone and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter Inc. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who back the company. In October 2008 Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board.
As the service grew in popularity, Dorsey had to choose improving uptime as top priority— even over creating revenue, which as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.
Great List!
All of them are genius. Thanks for compiling this info.
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You forgot Al Gore!
hey Al-Gore ?? What he did for Web !
umm.. you didn’t ranked them, can you!
I feel that Sabeer Bhatia, the guy who created the first web based Email (hotmail) should be listed.
I think you forgot my name here as the 18th person
lol
Sorry man it just slipped out of my mind. Btw in what field have you specialized in?!?! 
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How did Bill Gates change the Internet? At first he and Microsoft weren’t interested. When they saw the money making potential of it, they force bundled an inferior Mosaic based browser in every subsequent release of their OS and got busted for it. To this day the browser is inferior to most other offerings.
You used to have to get your own TCP/IP stack to add on to Windows 3.11 with either PPP or SLIP for modem access, and this usually came from your ISP, and was not included with the OS. When Windows 95 came out the networking stack was sub-par and full of bugs.
I’m still waiting for that “Internet changing thing” from Bill Gates or Microsoft, but haven’t as yet seen it.
The only thing close would be Xbox Live, but it wasn’t exactly the first Internet based gaming service. I believe Quakeworld started that, with Valve making it mainstream.
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Not a single woman on the list.
It’s funny how Tom Anderson from Myspace didn’t make this list. I’m not saying he should be on it or not, but for a while there they were talking about him like he was a God. Myspace surpassed google for daily unique visitors at one point.
Now a few months later, people just don’t seem to care. Perhaps, we just now have perspective, or maybe we just have the attention span of a 2 year old.
Soooo Facebook “changed” the internet even though they just now (years later) have only reached where MySpace has been at for years. How did Zucker-douche make this list and MySpace didn’t? Facebook even now only has as many users as MySpace because they went international. They are still no where near MS in terms of users in places like UK, US, CA, MX, JP, IN. Your list is incomplete and bias.
I’m not sure the word “staggering” was included enough!
Interesting list, though.
Uh … Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were successful whether the internet existed or not.
By the way the Internet existed long before http existed – and without every goob and their kids on the net it was a far safer place.
Who-ray brokened Englinese!
Proofread!!
Why, oh why do people still try to connect Bill Gates with the success of the internet? This article is titled: “17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!” yet Microsoft had LITTLE OR NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET!! In fact, when the internet was first gaining momentum, Gates was famously quoted as saying: “The internet? We’re not interested in it.” Just because the computer you are staring at right now is running their crappy software, doesn’t mean they got you connect to the internet. In fact, Internet Explorer was Microsoft’s way of BACKPEDDLING their ass into the internet, because they let it slip right by them. Do the history! Check the facts, and judge for yourself!
Al Gore was pro-active in passing the legislation that funded the transition from a defense / research network into the publicly accessible internet in the US today.
No, he didn’t invent the internet … but he was in on the process early enough (and in a big enough way) to take some of the credit.
Bill Gates does NOT belong on this list. He made his money selling software for stand-alone computers and, if anything, has hindered the internet through the zillions of security vulnerabilities coded into his products.
you forgot tom, who made myspace, which is way bigger than facebook.
Hey you seem to have forgotten the original pioneers of internet porn, they certainly changed the place, and made a truck load of cash
On this list is some of the best people on the web, specially kevin rose, shame I am not on the list though
Yeah, Bill Gates does not belong on this list. He has done nothing for the Internet – always playing catch-up to the other great minds you’ve mentioned here.
Steve Jobs… hmmm Mac did create ITunes, which could be seen as an innovation in buying music online…
And where is Linus Torvalds, Eric Stallman and the Apache Devs ? If you look at the growth of the GNU/Linux and the internet they run pretty much together. In my opinion, without these guys the internet wouldn’t be close to what it is today.
It would have been a place where only big corporations would be able to afford putting up websites, and there would’ve been much tighter controls over the content you could see.
Also, many of the people on your list made use of Linux + Apache and much of the FOSS stuff to create these ground breaking Internet Innovations.
… oh no … kiddos. not only bill gates are wrong in this list … also steve “money money money” jobs.
As far as I’m concerned, Microsoft’s most significant contribution to the web was MSN Messenger, in Canada at least. MSN is practically synonymous with IM here.
Thanks!
why would you cross out bill gates? he’s one of the most influential people in the world, and being that his field of origin is technology… wouldn’t he indeed be somebody who’s impacted and changed the internet as we know it?
You Microsoft hating fags go suck a mac dick.
Anyone else find it interesting they are all white or Asian men?
Hmmmm.I would add TPB owners.In fact i’m disturbed that they are not mentioned.They are many times out there in the front line fighting for what many of us belive it’s right.
Tim Berners-Lee did more than just invent the; he saved us money too! The heads of CERN (where he was working at the time of development), wanted to “RENT” each one of us the web, but he said: “No”
@ Styyl & lynstly
I do agree with both of you, and that is the sole reason I included him in this list. But it seems that authority rules in this case.
Most of the people here are of the view that Gates had little or no contribution to the web development. And that’s the reason I had to cross him from this list. No offense though!
Inspiring for those who have innovation but are still afraid to show/do it.
Fear not just do it.
If it fails so what noone is gonna chop your head off!
Peace Peeps
I found this article through stumbleupon and I must say this is one of the rare few articles that actually catch my attention and are written well.
You described everyone that belonged on that list, it was a great read.
Thanks
Eric
I am not saying I like the guy, and as people have already said, Bill Gates wasn’t really interested in the Internet until all the other actors in the business had already proven his stance wrong, however, where do you think the Internet had been today if Microsoft had kept on ignoring it? With what? A 90% market share, that’s a lot of computers not being able to get online out of the box.
tl;dr: BillG played a role, just not in the active way that all the others on the list did.
Glad to see Sir Tim here at least.
And while guys like Kevin Rose and Mark Zuckerberg have done amazing work on web sites that were disruptive, may I suggest a few names from the first waves. For example, Vint Cerf was writing the TCP/IP spec in the early 1970s, which is before Mark Zuckerberg was born.
* Steve Case – morphed the closed Commodore network Quantum*Link into a series of platform specific sites before combining them all under AOL. And while we scoff at AOL now, there were enough members to enable the company to buy Time Warner. And then they did this little thing at Q-Link called OLMs – on-line messaging, which became, uh, AIM. Finally, he introduced flat-rate pricing and changed the game forever. Before that, we charged people by the minute.
* Vint Cerf – known as “father of the Internet”. Name it, and he’s done it. Once you look at Vint’s background, no one on the list belongs there more (except for maybe Sir Tim)
* Jim Clark & Mark Andressen – anyone here use a browser? Thank these two guys who brought Netscape to the market. And back in those days, IE was one no one used. It was all Netscape. Smart too. They gave the product away and sold the platform to AOL for $4 billion.
* John Postel — You know that email thing or DNS? Yeah, that’s him.
* Esther Dyson — besides the EFF (without which we would have no freedoms on today’s web), Dyson was the first chair of ICANN, the group that works with top level domains among other things.
I think there’s room for some more at the table. These Web 2.0 folks disrupted the underlying technology on the www interface, mostly for commercial purposes, but they didn’t change the Internet. It’s a worthy list. Maybe the title could be tweaked or the real people who fashioned DARPA into the Internet could join them.
Kickin’ it old school and new school!
How about Caterina Fake & Stewart Butterfield, founders of Flickr? I think Flickr definitely belongs on the list- and will have the added merit of having a woman make it to the list
okay guys my god.
the internet was not changed by mr jobs, or mr gates; they shouldn’t be on this list.
AND if you’re looking to find people who changed the face of the internet, you may want to look at the inventor of Flash, the awesome develoeprs at netscape who invented JavaScript (the father of Web 2.0) – in fact, include netscape (wtf? gates but no netscape you obviously don’t know anything about the internet)
how about the developer of php? you know the server side crap that runns ALL of the above developers sites?
this list is a load of crap!
What about Janus Friis, the founder of Kazaa and Skype?
stumbleupon is how i found this website. haha…i love it =D
Fantastic List!! And I found you thanks to the creators of SU!!
I’ve bookmarked it for reference later on – you know on those days when you think something is not possible!! These people are inspirations for us all.
Great compilation and the additions to your list make it pretty darn complete. I was wondering about Flickr but am happy to see it’s there now. Nice work!!
I thank you all on appreciating my work! I really feel proud of compiling such an excellent list (not praising myself) and the response that I am getting is beyond my expectations.
@ J
Well, I don’t think that they played a major role, although their ideas very unique and helped us in certain ways.
I’ll leave this to my readers to decide whether they think and want to add “Janus Friis” to this list.
Dude, where is Al Gore?
Al Gore had little or no contribution towards the promotion of internet. Otherwise, Give me a valid argument.
MOOT. and chuck norris
You forgot Christopher Poole (moot) – 4chan
Well, if you think Bill G contributed… Then by that standard, JF contributed much more. He made IP-telephony accesible for the average user.
And he made a pretty penny, too. Which also seems to be a parameter to make this excellent and interesting list
J
I would have to disagree with having Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on this list.
Those two did NOTHING for the internet itself.
True, they USED the internet to grow their business’, but they did nothing to enhance, or change the internet.
and skype!
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where the hell is m00t???
waite, wair is m00t?
Whoa … where is Marc Andressen, the inventor of Netscape???
Also we can thank Richard Bartle for MUD, the forefather of online multiuser adventure games like World of Warcraft.
The only think that Al Gore invented was Global Warming. He didn’t invent squat!
Jobs or Bill don’t fit the bill otherwise a pretty impressive list. Tom from myspace should be on there too..
all these huge sites and still 70% of the internet is pornography.
Where are the designers of Apache, if we want to get into server-side stuff with pHp?
Sergey Brin and Larry Page are not Ph.Ds. According to wikipedia they are on leave from the Stanford Grad Program with only a MSc.
Tim Berners-Lee did NOT invent the internet. He invented the web. There is a difference.
The internet was NOT invented in 1992. Nor was the web. ARPANet, the military precursor to the internet, was developed in the mid to late ’60s. The web was developed between 1989 and 1990.
Bill Gates had nothing to do with the internet. To this day, in fact, Microsoft has arguably not produced full internet support, given that Windows’ TCP/IP stack is a semi-broken, ugly hack which apparently works by black magic.
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@ all
Give me one strong argument as to why MOOT should be included in this list?
Jack Ma? He just copied the bloke above him. Al Gore did more for the internet than that
Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc …..were defiantly not building steam engines!?!?
“Defiantly!!!!!!”
Moohahahaha !!!
Nothing about twitter?
Hmmm you’ve got a point!
Stumbleupon???
Lets be realistic, stumble is a great concept, but changed the internet, I don’t think so, at least not yet. I would also question Digg as it is waning in popularity proving that it’s just a fad.
I only started 4 years ago, and I suppose the comments made already make the large point about the Internet – everybody and anybody can have their say – whether they know anything about it or not!
It also shows human nature in the raw! Nobody is EVER satisfied! I see comments made on Google users forums, made by people who would never be able to afford the programmes offered free of charge, but they are still not satisfied..!
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Hey there! Love the list, but where’s Blake Ross, founder and creator of Firefox?! My cyberlife would be inadequate if not for Ross.
Nice post, but where is RMS?! About 80% of the people in this list would not be there without the free software they used to set up or code their projects…
Patrik on November 25th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
You said “where do you think the Internet had been today if Microsoft had kept on ignoring it? ”
Let’s turn that question around … where would MSFT be today if it had kept ignoring the Internet?
Microsoft had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to the Internet party. It is still lagging behind.
It’s built-in browser lags Firefox and Opera for features and there are just a lot of things that you can do with a fresh/free install of Linux that you simply cannot do with MSFT until large sums of money have changed hands.
For instance: anybody on Linux who has an IP can also host a fairly secure set of internet services using the server software provided with each distribution of Linux. With Microsoft, they are pretty much all “optional / extra”.
Microsoft is still running behind.
This is indeed interesting. I never realize most of the founders are so young. They look so smart. I hope I can become one of them too!
Comon, You have to include my man Max
http://www.ucubd.com/Index.aspx?id=935&type=ms
A lot of this list is garbage.
Honestly, junk. Some of the people, the ones who created protocols and literal languages are to be knighted. Bullshit social networking tools? Go fuck yourself. Billions of dollars in earning you say? Yes. Easy Wrap 2000 faired the same. This list is incomplete and half baked.
A frat boy or girl (or ex) creating a system I can use to more easily create content glorifying myself does not deserve mention on this list. Nor do they deserve billions of dollars. Fuck the free market and fuck you.
Just kidding, this shit is awesome. I am going to upload some pictures of that party last night and write a rambling homage to something entirely different.
Hey what about Louis Monier and Michael Burrows from Altavista? Yahoo wouldn’t be anything without them.
vint cerf is more important that most of these chums (Berners Lee is damn important too)
the list is very special, all we know about them is they are smart and very creative person, but first rule is to got really big imagination and dreams. thank you
Well i must say that lots of investigation have been done to write this article. I must say very nice article and all cheers to you.
Thanks for the appreciation “Rita”. I wish other people could realize the fact as well.
Bill Gates is a corrupt sack of camel dung that uses his exploits in the technology sector to fund one of the most disastrous vaccination programs in modern history…Africa! And Al Gore did not invent the Internet, that stubby little goblin can’t even get his facts straight in his movie that was a complete lie.
Robert Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf without them the Internet is not possible.
Wow this is a very impressive list. I use technology created by all of these people on a day to day basis. Where would be be with out these wonderful people?
Sabeer Bhatia – who invented free email for the world.
Sabeer Bhatia who invented Free Email for the world – and started http://www.hotmail.com
All but 1 of the people on the list are men, all but 4 are white men, out of 28 entries. I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that much of the pioneering work was done in the predominantly white United States.. or, for that matter, how much is due to women historically not being taken seriously in these fields in the US.
4chan is the source of essentially every prolific internet meme out there and those memes have changed the face of the internet. Moot deserves a place in this list more than gates or jobs.
The description for “Linus Torvalds – Linux” should have mentioned that Linux was the operating system that fathered the Apache webserver; the webserver with the most market share. Without which more than half the websites you mentioned here wouldn’t exist.
Can you add jackstowe? I mean it but… ten years from now, LOL! These people really deserve the success and fame because Internet is the greatest discovery of the 21th century.
How come there is no mention of Deviant Art?
Give me one good reason as to why Deviant Art should be included in this list? It actually did nothing for the betterment of the web.
@ Jackst
LoL. I’ll definitely include your name, after 10 years that is. Do contact me then.
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Bill Gates is far from being the richest person in the world !
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They own gates , america , the internet , and your bank accounts !
All were good ideas
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Sure…Definitely!
Haha. I found this webpage using stumbleupon.
Having Bill gates and Steve Jobs is akin to putting G. Richard Wagoner Jr. and Alan R. Mullaly as people who changed automobiles while skipping over people such as Ferdinand Porsche and Henry Ford.
Anyone who makes a list of people who changed the internet without at the very least Vinton G. Cerf doesn’t deserve to use his inventions.
“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)”
Just for clarification, Wozniak made the original Apple (as well as AppleII), Jobs helped put the cases on them and ran the buisness. I give credit to Jobs for getting Apple where it is today, but if anyone the credit should go to Steve Wozniak. Their effect on the computer industry was large, but it didn’t directly effect what we now know as, “the internets”.
what about john resig or the creators of prototype
It never ceases to amaze me how emotional & irrational people get over MicroSoft & Bill Gates. Borderline religious fanatical even..
Gates’ & Microsoft’s contribution was huge in the impact they had on desktop & home computing without which the need, development & utilisaton of the Internet & related Networking technologies would never have been facilitated as we now now them.
Criticisms of the OSes, their operation & their numerous components aside, they have had a huge impact in setting up/doing things which others can & do improve & do better & lead to other alternative & better ideas.
Their success is continued because of the wide acceptance through strategic marketing & packaging of their software with home & desktop computers.
A nice list – includes almost all people who have changed the world… but what about the millions of users – who use it and increase the numbers of the website visitors for sites like craiglist.
So, you should also include – THE COMMON Internet User as the next person to be recognized.
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You forgot Jean Armour Polly, who first coined the term “surfing the internet” in print and who, more importantly was the first woman on the Internet Society Board of Trustees back in the early 1990s along with many others on your list. She was a pioneer in advocating for equity of access to the internet for everyone, regardless of their ability to afford a computer or physical proximity to connectivity. She advocated for this primarily through public libraries (she is a librarian) and helped to cement the importance of the connection between libraries and the internet and the information age which has been recognized by both Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Google (as evidenced by the millions of dollars they have poured into providing access to the internet through all through their respective public library funding initiatives). If you want a woman on the list, Jean is the person who should be there. She was and still is years ahead of her time. The average person’s ability to access the internet is due in large part to Jean’s vision.
really great people..we should thank them for this.good collection friends..
Why is David Karp not on here?
Great list. I think the linux guy could be higher up the list, though.
How did Bill Gates changed the internet? The maximum changed he allowed was for bad, at least, with the IE monopoly.
i came here by stumbleupon… but hell ya.. how BIll is on the list ? you forget hotmail inventors…
by the way.. i really dint know that young age people are founder of those stuff which i suing daily…
Move Bill Gates to the “People who wished they had changed the Internet” page. And Marc Andreessen & Mosaic in the Updates. You’ve got to be kidding.
I think maybe you forgot J.C.R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush. If it was not for them, well none of these “Pioneers” would even know what a computer was.
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Um…. Bill Joy???
Good list. Don’t agree with all, but still a good list. And not sure if anyone else mentioned it, but where is Fark?? That should have definitely been up there over some others, or in addition.
This list is amazing. A lot of respect goes out to these innovators that help make the internet so much better than when it was 1997.
fucking awesome list, thank you for sharing
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This list is photoshopped! You can see the pixels!!
NO WOMEN, MOST OF THEM WHITE MEN..
Please, can we all think about it?
NO WOMEN?!?! You need a serious eye check-up Man! Caterina Fake – co-founder of Flickr is a Woman
@ meh
To be more exact the images have been compressed. Sorry to all my readers, but I had to compress it, due to some reasons.
I find the whole business absolutely amazing. I don’t know how it works and I don’t know how to work everything. Every time I turn on my computer is an adventure for me. Thanks to all these guys who made it possible.
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Desde Bill Gates a Jack Dorsey, esta es una lista con las 25 personalidades que cambiaron la web para siempre. ¿Que habría sido de internet sin Netscape? ¿De los blogs sin Wordpress? ¿Y de la información en la red sin la Wikipedia o Google?. Por e…
Just a small note, the World Wide Web, not the internet, was created by Tim Berners Lee, the internet is the physical network on which we all communicate, the web (invented circa 1992) refers to the creation of the web browser (and web servers.)
SKYPE?
What about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla who helped harness electricity … where would the web be without that??? ….aaah just kidding its a pretty good list, though there were no people of color…wait, hey what about that black guy, Miles Bennett Dyson from Terminator 2?
Yeah, “God’s gift to mankind”?????
It’s just 100% wunnerful aint it? Come on, love Google et al, but fail to see how millions of people playing WoW and Facebooking, etc. is doing the world much good at all. How many wars, famimes, conflicts have been stopped by it? Truth is, the internet COULD be a powerful tool for changing the planet but it ain’t; it’s an incredible amplification of all man’s desires, good and bad [including greed and selfishness]
btw; food 4 thought; Hitler was voted one of the most influential human beings to ever walk the planet…..
Consider adding in your next update Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal.org and John Resig, who created jQuery.
Gore had been involved with computers since the 1970s, first as a Congressman and later as Senator and Vice President, where he was a “genuine nerd, with a geek reputation running back to his days as a futurist Atari Democrat in the House. Before computers were comprehensible, let alone sexy, the poker-faced Gore struggled to explain artificial intelligence and fiber-optic networks to sleepy colleagues.”
Refer Wikipedia…
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as “The Gore Bill”[4]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[5] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[6]
Refer Wikipedia…
Perhaps one of the most important results of the Gore Bill was the development of Mosaic in 1993.[13][14] This World Wide Web browser is credited by most scholars as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s
Early projects
As Vice President, Gore promoted the development of what he referred to as the Information Superhighway. This was discussed in detail a few days after winning the election in November 1992 in the The New York Times article “Clinton to Promote High Technology, With Gore in Charge.”[16] They planned to finance research that “that will flood the economy with innovative goods and services, lifting the general level of prosperity and strengthening American industry.”
Refer Wikipedia…
These people are amazing! They have totally changed how people interact with computers and the internet. Quite a few were young’uns too.
Great post!
What about the creator of the first ever IM, ICQ? Or the inventor of IRC protocol?
Even though they’re not so hot any more, they definitely had a dominating role in the shaping of today’s internet – and should definitely be on that list…
This has probably been said before or is old news, but what about 4chan.org’s moot and SomethingAwful.com’s Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka. 4chan makes up about 1% of the internet these days and is responsible for some of the most prolific internet memes which are now influencing popular culture. Lolcats, rickrolling etc. are all products of 4chan and despite its reputation as the asshole of the internet, has to be mentioned somewhere here.
Why my name is not in the list?
I have changed the internet to firefox
This is a great list, there are some others that could be added this. But this is good for now.
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What about Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal?
Wow lots of commenting! I’m a big fan of Matt Mullenweg: thanks for Wordpress.
That’s odd, I wonder why the person who made Firefox isn’t on here? (AKA Blake Ross)
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Richard Stallman missing.
Please please pleeease remove Bill Gates. Listen to everyones comments here, they are ALL correct! It’s not about “hating” the guy, just about the fact he hasn’t changed the internet in any astounding way.
I’m wondering if you’re being paid by Microsoft to keep his name there
Well how did you know?!?! LoL. Kidding. After getting so many comments on Bill Gates, I do agree that he had little contribution towards the betterment of the web.
But, now removing his name from the list will make me bias over that. I do appreciate your suggestion, but I won’t be deleting his name.
Hope you won’t mind!
Very true, I personally owe my life to these people!!! :p
Great list. I agree with them all!
What? No Blacks changed the internet? Wack!
Off course!
Bill gates HAS to be included.
windows users around the world (in late 90’s) represented over 90% of home computer users!
BILL GATES INTRODUCED THE INTERNET TO MORE THAN HALF OF ITS CURRENT USERS!
Congratulations on the best web page I have read so far in 2009! Thanks, a great write-up with great pics.
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Very interesting srticle
Excellent article, Google is the king of internet evolution.
I thought al gore invented the internet
*rolls eyes*
Now you know that he didn’t!!
We have got to give it up for these Ladies and Gent, they have truely made our lives much more simpler and so complicated at the same time, thank you
What about del.icio.us?
And don’t forget about Mozilla.
Well mozilla and Delicious does not qualify for this list. They haven’t made such an impact on our lives yet. Anyways thanks for sharing
What about Sabeer Bhatia and his hotmail.com?
Very beautiful list – i was really excited to read it through! Thanks!
Very interesting article!
But I want the founder of Mozilla Firefox to be in it.
And the creators of Firefox and Java? And Flash?
nice list, but i really disappointed, because i can’t see mozilla firefox, while IE is here. mozilla firefox made a record recently when they released mozilla firefox 3. please add, else remove IE.
@ Freeware Files, swefse and Blaz
I appreciate your thoughts, although they made our life much easier but they are not the pioneers of the web. They only improved something that was already there.
Unfortunately they do not qualify for our criterion.
Stumbled on this, ironic.
Good find!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
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Great comprehensive view of important people on the net. I disagree with some of those people who “changed the net”. Many of them didn’t really create anything innovative. For example amazon is nothing that innovative but on the other hand Wikipedia was a very innovative idea.
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While I am not a huge fan of our current US President, Barack Obama, I would have to say that his team at least changed how politicians use the internet.
It seems like any politician that wants to stand a chance has to be on Twitter and Facebook and pretty much every other social networking site.
SuperSparky You silly willy – Have a look at almost any text editing platform such as wordpress, blogger and a thousand more. Don’t you think these are based on the easy-to-us word editing software Microsoft has developed?
What about Photobucket? I use that everyday and have no idea who founded it.
I agree that many people do use Photobucket, including myself. However the main idea behind this post was who took the first step, flickr was first, followed by photobucket and others.
4chan is fucking full of fags and losers its not a widely popular site.
The really interesting question is: What will a similar list look like in 10 years?, 25? There w/b more names on the list for applications not now even imagine of course, but will the importance of the work of all these people still appear as relevent in 2020 or 2035?
I agree; it will be twice as long with more young entrepreneurs making our lives better!
What about Janus Friis?
Kazaa, Skype and Joost!
Their eyes all read of too much time on the computer…burn out.
lol
Good observation. I agree 
Tom from myspace did more to change internet than facebook.
They really are jenius and it really acquires much hard work to be jenius. I am 23 till now i couldn’t do any invention. shammmmm…
Refill CartridgesCould you share stuff that he did with our viewer?
Danyal Nawazish Neither have I….
To everyone saying that Bill Gates doesn’t belong on the list, get your info. So what, Microsoft wasn’t orginally interested in the internet.
Go to any young person today, and ask them what web browser they used? AOL? Maybe in the days of dial-up. Netscape? What’s that? They’ll say Internet Explorer or Possible Firefox.
XBOX Live, MSN, Windows. If it weren’t for Microsoft, 85% of us wouldn’t even be using computers right now, let alone using the internet.
I agree with him!
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Dies liegt daran, dass Sie lesen eine übersetzte Text.
A lot of ppl don’t know that The most Hon. Elijah Muhammad (founder of the Nation of Islm)built and used the 1st computers back in the early 1960’s after his departure in the mid 1970 did the govt try to eliminate all of his materials, keeping the computer.
Knowledge is power;)
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Inspirational. As I scroll through, so glad to see there’s a lady representative among the males. I’m sure there’re still more of them to come. ^^ Bravo to all of these pioneers. Ever wonder How the World Wide Web would look like without them? ……yeah, different names, maybe? ^^
Great job for compiling the list.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation Ching Ya
What about Kijiji?????
Who’s Kijiji?!?
bob kahn and vint– read “when wizards stay up late”. they are the roots that made these grasstops possible.
Piratebay admins should be on this list, they have taken sevral “bullets” for the freedome on the web, thats more then you can say about any of the persons on this list.
Hmmm… A typical American list. Where is Niklas Zennstrom, inventor of Skype and Kazaa?!? AND where are all the “real Internet gurus”?!? Like Robert E. Kahn and Vinton Cerf who invented the TCP/IP protocol. Where is James Gosling, the father of Java?
Where the hell is Moot???
@ Neo Give me one good reason why Moot should be on this list?
Great list. Never seen pictures of some of the people.
Thanks Kyle. Glad you liked it
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where is richard stallman? He is so important
Great. Thought Steve Wozniak of Apple be on the list.
But you can see Steve Jobs in this list!
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These are great innovators of our time. I think if they didn’t showed the courage to break the jinx we wouldn’t had great services. Take an example of spam free Google.com mail or other services.
I think you have invested lot of time in coming up with this list. Thank you for sharing.
Indeed they are. I thank you for taking your time and reading this post!
You forgot to include – “Sabeer Bhatia”, co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeer_Bhatia
LOL!
And where the f*** is the founder of 4Chan, humm?
Give me one good reason why should he be included in this list?!
I wish you will also update me on this list after 3-4 years.
EVERYBODY WISH ME LUCK FOR WHATEVER I AM cREATING.
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Sure I would love to! Do let me know after 3-4 years. BEST OF LUCK!
I’d have thought Linus Torvalds would rate higher up the list as Linux gave birth to the Apache Web Server, and if your going to include Bill Gates you should also add Richard Stallman of Gnu.
This is an un-ordered list, no point of ranking anyone!
And how about the inventor of the smiley
haha! Do you think it changed the internet?
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you forgot moot you fools
Give me one good reason why he should be in the list?
RMS missing
Who is RMS?
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs should not be on that list. They pioneered nothing internet-related. Seriously, stop giving them credit for other people’s hard work and ingenuity.
The sad thing is I had created a website similar to twitter, with the SMS integration a few years back, and the software was stolen so I gave up on the project. I had several people using my software without my permission, but hey what can you do. I have created many websites that are similar to twitter, flickr way before they where even a thought in the current creators mind. It sucks, it really does.
Its really annoying and unfair if any one steals your hardwork and attributes it to himself.
You forgot 4chan up there. It started with the motivational posters and the lolcats/can i has chezburgr. Hell 4chan created a lot of internet jokes and if you have retarded things like Myspace and Facebook up there then you should have Moot up there as the creator of 4chan.
I think you should put the guy who invetned 4chan on here.
Great list! Thanks!
@ Anon – Yeah I am thinking of adding 4chan to the list. I have got a lot of votes for M00t.
@ KP-Pro – Okay.
@ Alex – Thanks! Glad you liked it.
bill gates?
what did he do for the internet?
Read the comments and you’ll find the answer.
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What about Jeffrey Citron? He is the founder of Vonage and was responsible for bringing quality VoIP based telephony services to the masses. Additionally, he was a pioneering force in online investing when he brought Datek to the consumer masses.
m00t is necesarry. you could also just put anonymous, since moot just put up the site
Don’t forget moot, founder of 4chan. while he didn’t change the internet in a good way, he still changed the internet…
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Nice work! Great collections!
Thanks!
Great list. Many are geniuses, some are just lucky.
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You never spoke about how the military used the internet. I have no connection I just think that it is a vital point in how it was created. On a sadder note, what the @&$!. I kick myself every time I see a new site take off. It reminds me of my favorite invention, the paper clip. Why didn’t I think of that, so simple.
moot! not Moot! Small m! And yes, he should be in the list, for all that is holy and beloved.
We should include her the person with the good sense to put this list together.
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A very interesting read, but there are a couple of items I would lke to add:
1. There is nothing much about Firefox and Mozilla which is a shame and
2. There is not much about ms windows which, surely, is
a good thing, eh?
I found this page using stumbleupon haha
Hey! How about rms!
@SuperSparky: are you serious? Bill Gates is the reason 90% of the world knows the internet even exists. Apple was great for people who could afford a $12,000 computer, Linux was great if you had 8 years of college on your back. Bill Gates, evil bastard he is, brought the internet to the common man, just as Henry Ford brought the automobile. Sneer all you want, were it not for Win 95 on my 486dx, I wouldn’t be here today, and likely neither would you.
@ Walter Earnshaw The reason I didn’t add Creators of FireFox is that they weren’t the pioneers of internet back in the early days of the web. Although now the scenario has changed, they haven’t developed anything out of the ordinary. Bill Gates the creator of Microsoft has already been mentioned above in the list.
@ Dan Dart Call me ignorant but who is RMS??! :S
@ Dwindle Thanks for sharing your views with our readers!
needs more m00t
gosling not on the list? All I can say is where would we be without javascript?
What a great list of people who changed the Digital Era for all of us either in good or bad way.
I guess whenever ‘you’ landed in a fertile land, with ‘your’ hard works, and positive thought ‘you’ are able to reach to highest seat of fame.
Good luck for the rest of other people who could be in this line.
This list is one of the best that I have seen I think that Gosling needs to be added too.
first of all thanks to the author of this list who efforted some time of research, to make it.
i guess almost all of these people mentioned in this list above so far put their financial outcome in first place rather than to positively revolutionize the internet and the way people look at it as it is today with all its nice helpful things.
they all more or less influenced the internet in the way it appears today but the true heroes in my opinion are those, who fight for and create open source software, fair regulations (for instance the GNU license, or just CC) for all users, developers, idealists and possibilities, to get everyone with less financial power involved as they like to be part of it.
i´d like to see this list more defined like if you talk about steve jobs, please also add steve wozniak to it, because he deserves it and was also the main electronic expertise of the very beginning of apple computers.
Richard Stallman of Gnu License also deserves to be on your list, because
he makes the internet more essential and real of using and modifying source code for the overall user.
(linus torvalds should be higher positioned in this list though !)
after all i would say that your list contains to much people how got rich than changing the personal freedom of the users. if they haven´t done it others would in other periodes of time and other names. but the result would be similar in the basics.
the idea of “changing the internet forever” to me seems more like sharing valueable information with everyone and also give back instead of only taking.
All great minds….cheers to all……….u rockkkkkkkk
*COUGH*
marshall mcluhan
*COUGH*
You forgot m00t.
You might want to change the title to “Most obvious list ever”
Seriously? Where’s m00t?
what does it take to be someone like them?
Shear effort, I guess! Not to mention luck…
ahmm…where’s the Zend Guys?
OMG I idolize all these people! Thanks a lot!
D
Your Welcome!
Richard Stallman!!
I am so glad that Al Gore did not appear on this list!
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I’m sorry, but where the hell is moot?
so these are the people responsible for me wasting my life on the computer. Good to know.
They sure are!
The World Wide Web was created in 1992, the Internet has been around since the 1960s.
wowa, wonderful images. it is great to see. i think it is photo shoped, but it’s amazing .
hehe i found this on stumbleupon.com =)
Moot- 4chan.
/thread
pretty impressive , most of them are young guys from colleges, and also i saw it written somewhere that justintv is run by college dropout, it gives me some hope
lol
WE WANT moot!!! 4chan now!
/rude!
i like them all..
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It was very inspiring and informative..liked a lot..
hi all, i will made a browsing machine popular in era millenium again and the machine namely is HAKUJA…
you all can wait…
i belive it…
that’s awesome you can curl your hair with a flat iron!
Why is moot not on here? answer: because simpletons don’t realize who is the puppet master behind the curtain