17 אנשים ששינו את האינטרנט לתמיד!

רשימת הגדול!
כל אחד מהם גאון. תודה על הידור זה מידע.

אקראית Feed [...] כתב פוסט מעניין onHere היום excerptInternet מהיר יש תפקיד מאוד מרכזי עטרה חיינו. בקושי, 10 או 15 שנים, האינטרנט היה מקום מאוד בודד, עם מעט או ללא פעילות כלל. האינטרנט עצמו הוא היה ציון דרך תקשורת אשר שינה את חיינו כולנו יחד. הרעיון מאחורי האינטרנט היה פשוט מאוד, אבל אנחנו בדרך למהפכה להתחבר ולשתף את הדברים שלנו אחד עם השני. מאת חלוף הזמן, חברות רבות יצאו עם רעיונות מטורפים כדי להקל על דרך נוספת שלנו. זה די מעניין לדעת על אלה [...]

אקראית Feed [...] כתב פוסט מעניין onHere היום excerptInternet מהיר יש תפקיד מאוד מרכזי בחיינו דפוס. בקושי, 10 או 15 שנים, האינטרנט היה מקום מאוד בודד, עם מעט או ללא פעילות כלל. האינטרנט עצמו הוא היה ציון דרך תקשורת אשר שינה את חיינו כולנו יחד. הרעיון מאחורי האינטרנט היה פשוט מאוד, אבל אנחנו בדרך למהפכה להתחבר ולשתף את הדברים שלנו אחד עם השני. מאת חלוף הזמן, חברות רבות יצאו עם רעיונות מטורפים כדי להקל על דרך נוספת שלנו. זה די מעניין לדעת על אלה [...]

שכחת את אל גור!

אני מרגיש כי Sabeer Bhatia, האיש שיצר את האינטרנט הראשון מבוסס דואר אלקטרוני (Hotmail) צריך להיות רשום.

לצחוק בקול רם אדם מצטער זה פשוט נפלט לי מהראש. Btw בתחום מה יש לך התמחה?!?!

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[...] 17 אנשים ששינו את האינטרנט לתמיד! לאינטרנט יש תפקיד מאוד מרכזי בחיינו דפוס. בקושי, 10 או 15 שנים, האינטרנט היה מקום מאוד בודד, עם מעט או ללא פעילות כלל. האינטרנט עצמו הוא היה ציון דרך תקשורת אשר שינה את חיינו כולנו יחד. הרעיון מאחורי האינטרנט היה פשוט מאוד, אבל אנחנו בדרך למהפכה להתחבר ולשתף את הדברים שלנו אחד עם השני. מאת חלוף הזמן, חברות רבות יצאו עם רעיונות מטורפים כדי להקל על דרך נוספת שלנו. זה די מעניין לדעת על אלה [...]

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לא אישה אחת ברשימה.

Soooo פייסבוק "השתנה" באינטרנט למרות שהם רק עכשיו (שנים מאוחר יותר) יש רק לאן הגיעו ב-MySpace כבר שנים. צוקר-לשטוף איך להפוך רשימה זו ו-MySpace לא? פייסבוק אפילו עכשיו יש רק משתמשים רבים כמו כמו MySpace כי הם הלכו הבינלאומי. הם עדיין לא שם MS ליד במונחים של משתמשים במקומות כמו בריטניה, ארה"ב, קנדה, מושלם, JP, IN. הרשימה שלך היא חלקית ודעות קדומות.

אה ... סטיב ג 'ובס וביל גייטס היו מוצלחים אם האינטרנט היה קיים או לא.

דרך אגב באינטרנט קיים זמן רב לפני http קיים - ללא כל goob והילדים שלהם ברשת זה היה מקום הרבה יותר בטוח.

למה, הו למה אנשים עדיין מנסה להתחבר, ביל גייטס, עם ההצלחה של האינטרנט? מאמר שכותרתו: "17 אנשים ששינו את האינטרנט לנצח!" מיקרוסופט עדיין היה קטן או מה לעשות עם האינטרנט! למעשה, כאשר האינטרנט היה הראשון צובר תאוצה, התפרסם גייטס צוטט כמי שאמר: "באינטרנט? אנחנו לא מעוניינים בו. "רק בגלל המחשב אתה בוהה עכשיו פועלת התוכנה המחורבנת שלהם, לא אומר שהם קיבלו אתה מתחבר לאינטרנט. למעשה, ב-Internet Explorer של מיקרוסופט היה בצורה של BACKPEDDLING התחת שלהם אל האינטרנט, משום שהם מאפשרים לו להחליק אותם על ידי הימנית. לעשות את ההיסטוריה! בדוק את העובדות, לשפוט בעצמך!

שכחת את טום, שהפך את MySpace, אשר בדרך גדול יותר Facebook.

ברשימה זו היא חלק מן האנשים הטובים ביותר ברשת, במיוחד קווין רוז, חבל שאני לא ברשימה למרות

... הו לא ... kiddos. לא רק השערים הצעת החוק טועה ברשימה זו גם סטיב ... "כסף כסף כסף" עבודות.

תודה!

אתה שונא הומואים מיקרוסופט ללכת למצוץ זין מק.

Hmmmm.I תוסיף למעשה TPB owners.In אני מוטרד כי הם לא mentioned.They הם פעמים רבות שם בקו החזית נלחם על מה שרבים מאיתנו belive שזה נכון.

@ Styyl & lynstly

אני מסכים עם שניכם, וזו הסיבה היחידה שאני כללו אותו ברשימה זו. אבל נראה כי כללי הסמכות במקרה זה.

רוב האנשים כאן הם של להציג את גייטס כי היו מעט או ללא תרומתו להתפתחות האינטרנט. וזה הסיבה שאני צריך לחצות אותו מהרשימה הזאת. בלי להעליב אף!

מצאתי דרך StumbleUpon במאמר זה ואני חייב להגיד זה אחד הסעיפים כמה זה באמת נדיר לתפוס את תשומת הלב שלי כתובים היטב.

תיאר את כולם כי אתה שייך ברשימה הזאת, זה היה נהדר לקרוא.

תודה
אריק

אני שמח לראות סר טים כאן לפחות.

ובעוד אנשים כמו קווין רוז מארק צוקרברג עשו עבודה מדהימה על אתרי האינטרנט היו מפריעים, מותר לי להציע כמה שמות מן הגלים הראשונים. לדוגמה, וינט סרף היה לכתוב את פרוטוקול TCP / IP spec בשנות ה -1970 המוקדמות, אשר לפני מארק צוקרברג נולד.

* סטיב קייס - morphed הסגור קומודור רשת קוונטית * קישור לסדרה של אתרים ספציפיים לפני פלטפורמה המשלבת את כולם תחת AOL. ואם אנחנו לזלול עכשיו ב-AOL, היו חברים מספיק כדי לאפשר לחברה לרכוש את טיים וורנר. ואז הם עשו את הדבר הקטן בשעה ש-LINK קרא Olms - ב-בהודעות קו, שהפך, אה, ה-AIM. לבסוף, הוא הציג שטוח תמחור שער ושינה את המשחק לנצח. לפני כן, אנחנו אנשים לחייב לפי דקה.

* וינט סרף - בשם האב "של האינטרנט". שם זה, והוא עשה את זה. ברגע שאתה מסתכל על הרקע של וינט, אף אחד ברשימה שייך שם יותר (למעט אולי סר טים)

* ג 'ים קלארק & מארק Andressen - מישהו כאן להשתמש בדפדפן? תודה שני בחורים שהביא נטסקייפ לשוק. וגם באותם ימים, IE היה אחד שאף אחד לא בשימוש. זה היה כל נטסקייפ. חכם מדי. הם נתנו את המוצר משם מכרה את פלטפורמת ל-AOL עבור 4 מיליארד דולר.

* ג 'ון פוסטל - אתה מכיר את הדבר דוא"ל או שליטת? כן, זה אותו.

* 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!

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!

stumbleupon is how i found this website. haha…i love it =D

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.

Al Gore had little or no contribution towards the promotion of internet. Otherwise, Give me a valid argument.

You forgot Christopher Poole (moot) – 4chan

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.

[...] StumbledUpon the following page featuring a lot of interesting internet celebrities: 17 People Who Changed the Internet. The list includes famous guys like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, [...]

waite, wair is m00t?

The only think that Al Gore invented was Global Warming. He didn't invent squat!

Where are the designers of Apache, if we want to get into server-side stuff with pHp?

Tim Berners-Lee did NOT invent the internet. He invented the web. יש הבדל.
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.

gr8 list indeed they have really changed internet for better and for our betterment

Jack Ma? He just copied the bloke above him. Al Gore did more for the internet than that

Nothing about twitter?

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.

[...] Internet has played a very major role in molding our lives.  10 or 15 years back, the web was a very lonely place, with little or no activity at all.  But these 17 people changed it forever. [...]

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…

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!

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? לך תזדיין. Billions of dollars in earning you say? כן. 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.

vint cerf is more important that most of these chums (Berners Lee is damn important too)

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.

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.

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 – and started http://www.hotmail.com

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.

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.

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

לצחוק בקול רם. I'll definitely include your name, after 10 years that is. Do contact me then.

Where id the founder of Firefox?

Bill Gates is far from being the richest person in the world !
http://www.rense.com/general79/tril.htm
They own gates , america , the internet , and your bank accounts !

Hey don't forget me, I am BloggerStop

Haha. I found this webpage using stumbleupon.

“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”.

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.

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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.

Why is David Karp not on here?

How did Bill Gates changed the internet? The maximum changed he allowed was for bad, at least, with the IE monopoly.

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.

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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.

fucking awesome list, thank you for sharing

This list is photoshopped! You can see the pixels!!

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.

[ENG]25 personas que cambiaron la red para siempre…

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…

SKYPE?

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…..

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…

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

These people are amazing! They have totally changed how people interact with computers and the internet. Quite a few were young'uns too.
פוסט נהדר!

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.

This is a great list, there are some others that could be added this. But this is good for now.

What about Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal?

That's odd, I wonder why the person who made Firefox isn't on here? (AKA Blake Ross)

Richard Stallman missing.

Well how did you know?!?! לצחוק בקול רם. 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!

Great list. I agree with them all!

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!

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Very interesting srticle

I thought al gore invented the internet

* מגלגל עיניים *

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

And don't forget about Mozilla.

What about Sabeer Bhatia and his hotmail.com?

מאמר מעניין מאוד!
But I want the founder of Mozilla Firefox to be in it.

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.

Stumbled on this, ironic.
Good find!

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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?

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.

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?

What about Janus Friis?

Kazaa, Skype and Joost!

לצחוק בקול רם Good observation. אני מסכים

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…

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.

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Sorry, aber der ganze Text ist so voller Rechtschreib- / Grammatikfehler, dass es einem wirklich schwer fällt ihn zu lesen. : - /

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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Thanks a lot for the appreciation Ching Ya

Who's Kijiji?!?

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.

Where the hell is Moot???

Great list. Never seen pictures of some of the people.

[...] ne sais pas si le web2.0 sera une nouvelle religion mais dans tous les cas, on en connait les saints [...]

where is richard stallman? He is so important

But you can see Steve Jobs in this list!

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. תודה על שיתוף.

You forgot to include – “Sabeer Bhatia”, co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeer_Bhatia

Give me one good reason why should he be included in this list?!

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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.

And how about the inventor of the smiley

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Give me one good reason why he should be in the list?

Who is RMS?

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.

Its really annoying and unfair if any one steals your hardwork and attributes it to himself.

I think you should put the guy who invetned 4chan on here.

@ 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! שמח שאהבת את זה.

Read the comments and you'll find the answer.

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m00t is necesarry. you could also just put anonymous, since moot just put up the site

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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.

We should include her the person with the good sense to put this list together.

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?

@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.

needs more m00t

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.

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.

*COUGH*
marshall mcluhan
*COUGH*

Seriously? Where's m00t?

Shear effort, I guess! Not to mention luck…

OMG I idolize all these people! תודה רבה! D

Richard Stallman!!

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so these are the people responsible for me wasting my life on the computer. Good to know.

The World Wide Web was created in 1992, the Internet has been around since the 1960s.

hehe i found this on stumbleupon.com =)

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 לצחוק בקול רם

i like them all..

Awesome!
It was very inspiring and informative..liked a lot..

that's awesome you can curl your hair with a flat iron!

serach better and see that originaly youtube, is made by 2 romaniens and sold after