17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!
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.
amazing list.
mostly young minded guys.really great mind blowing.Thnks for listed this talented person.
hi,
People Who Changed the Internet and make it available for all …
thanks for your contribution…
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.