12 People Who Changed The Internet
Today Internet has connected whole world. Internet is only thing which has replaced the practice of reading newspapers and use of letters through websites and email services. Today non of us like to pick up pen in our hand. Specially, me ...
We can watch movies online. We can easily shop, connect to our friends, book our tickets, play games online, we can pay bills online for electricity, telephone or any thing else. But most of us do not know that who is behind this success.
I have created a list of
12 people who changed the internet have a look :
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are known as
Father of the Internet. Vint Cerf ‘The Father of Internet’ has created the TCP/IP suit of communication protocol together with Bob Kahn.
Ray Tomlinson
Ray Tomlinson, a programmer who is well known as
Father of Email. He started message exchange at world level. He came up with ‘@’ symbol.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is inventor of the
World Wide Web. He is director of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which refines web.
Michael Hart
Michael Hart started
concept of ebooks. Michael created the Project Gutenberg and was considered world’s first electronic library that only changed the way of our reading.
Scott Fahlman
Scott Fahlaman gave us
the first emoticon. He developed the first ASCII-based smiley emoticon, which is used in email, chat room, private chat.
David Bohnett
David Bohnett founded
GeoCities in year 1994 with John Rezner. GeoCities grown up to largest community online. GeoCities shut down on October 27, 2009.
Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia is
founder of Hotmail. He sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are
founder of Google. They started Google with their own funds, but today their company is at the top. They changed the way of using internet theough their great search engine.
David Filo and Jerry Yang
David Filo and Jerry Yang are co-founder of
Yahoo.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is associated with Paypal. Paypal has made online money exchange very easy. He cofounded PayPal and sold it to eBay four years later for $1.5 billion.
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is founder of World’s largest encyclopedia(
Wikipedia). He founded Wikipedia in year 2001.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is founder of
Facebook. He founded Facebook for students to keep in touch with friends.
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