17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!
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.
amazing list.
mostly young minded guys.really great mind blowing.Thnks for listed this talented person.
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People Who Changed the Internet and make it available for all …
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Great People
Its cool to know the personalities like this..
All of them are genius with great mind we salute them for there work that change our ways of living.
Great list of people. Sure there are other people that may have contributed to why some of the 17 are famous. But those 17 are people who truly have changed the way we use the web and what websites we go too. Sure Mark didn’t create the first social networking site but he made the most popular networking site. Which has the biggest impact on us internet users.
Yep, myspace is toast, now where are the big names for some of these awesome porn sites
Thanks for this beautiful list which brings the most global entrepreneurs who changed the internet world.
I hope someday to be in this list ^_^
Great list. They are all brilliant people, but my favourite is Linus Torvalds.
Hmmm… I love the spirit of Mark Zukerburg. At such a young age he did a wonderful job of making people more social and closer to each other… What an ideas.
These people are really genius who change the entire world people thinking and ideas with their inventions. I salute to all of them.
Sad but true… only one girl in the list!
Hi Musab,
Thanks for sharing the awsome list !!!
I am really glad you liked it!
Good grief, you really need a proof-reader. There’s some lousy writing in there.