17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!
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.
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.