17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!
From its birth in the labs of Tim Berners-Lee back in 1992, to its interaction with the Napster in 1999, and its 2004 induction of Wikipedia: the Internet as we know it, has evolved drastically, been around the world literally, and changed the way humans live permanently.
Nothing can replace it, nothing is like it, and it has no alternative. The internet is like a diamond mine for the people who wish to acquire wealth, a profound lake of information for those who have an insatiable appetite for knowledge base, and an eternal form of entertainment for those wish to amuse themselves.
With the passage of time, people from amongst us have emerged with the craziest of ideas to test and enhance the potential of this God’s gift to mankind. And it is due to the efforts of these noble souls, that we have the entire world at the simple tap of our fingers.
In no particular order, Skidzopedia provides you with a list of those people who have influenced the Internet greatly.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.
Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were defiantly not building steam engines!
They were, however, creating the internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.
Google was first launched on Stanford’s website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.
David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! too is the creation of two Stanford University’s Electrical Engineer graduates, called Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and named it “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Then, he decided to switch it to Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo
In December 1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified Yahoo! as a web portal.
David Filo’s net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and Jerry Yang’s is $2.3 billion dollars.
Bill Gates – Microsoft
William Henry “Bill” Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.
Bill Gates is far from being the richest person in the world !
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Having Bill gates and Steve Jobs is akin to putting G. Richard Wagoner Jr. and Alan R. Mullaly as people who changed automobiles while skipping over people such as Ferdinand Porsche and Henry Ford.
Anyone who makes a list of people who changed the internet without at the very least Vinton G. Cerf doesn’t deserve to use his inventions.
“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”.
what about john resig or the creators of prototype
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.
A nice list – includes almost all people who have changed the world… but what about the millions of users – who use it and increase the numbers of the website visitors for sites like craiglist.
So, you should also include – THE COMMON Internet User as the next person to be recognized.
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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.
really great people..we should thank them for this.good collection friends..
Why is David Karp not on here?
Great list. I think the linux guy could be higher up the list, though.
How did Bill Gates changed the internet? The maximum changed he allowed was for bad, at least, with the IE monopoly.
i came here by stumbleupon… but hell ya.. how BIll is on the list ? you forget hotmail inventors…
by the way.. i really dint know that young age people are founder of those stuff which i suing daily… 😮
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.
I think maybe you forgot J.C.R. Licklider and Vannevar Bush. If it was not for them, well none of these “Pioneers” would even know what a computer was.
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Um…. Bill Joy???
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.
This list is amazing. A lot of respect goes out to these innovators that help make the internet so much better than when it was 1997.
fucking awesome list, thank you for sharing
This list is photoshopped! You can see the pixels!!
NO WOMEN, MOST OF THEM WHITE MEN.. 😥
Please, can we all think about it?
NO WOMEN?!?! You need a serious eye check-up Man! Caterina Fake – co-founder of Flickr is a Woman 😀
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To be more exact the images have been compressed. Sorry to all my readers, but I had to compress it, due to some reasons.
I find the whole business absolutely amazing. I don’t know how it works and I don’t know how to work everything. Every time I turn on my computer is an adventure for me. Thanks to all these guys who made it possible.
Just a small note, the World Wide Web, not the internet, was created by Tim Berners Lee, the internet is the physical network on which we all communicate, the web (invented circa 1992) refers to the creation of the web browser (and web servers.)
SKYPE?
What about Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla who helped harness electricity … where would the web be without that??? ….aaah just kidding its a pretty good list, though there were no people of color…wait, hey what about that black guy, Miles Bennett Dyson from Terminator 2?
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…..
Consider adding in your next update Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal.org and John Resig, who created jQuery.
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…
As a Senator, Gore began to craft the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as “The Gore Bill”[4]) after hearing the 1988 report Toward a National Research Network[5] submitted to Congress by a group chaired by UCLA professor of computer science, Leonard Kleinrock, one of the central creators of the ARPANET (the ARPANET, first deployed by Kleinrock and others in 1969, is the predecessor of the Internet).[6]
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
Early projects
As Vice President, Gore promoted the development of what he referred to as the Information Superhighway. This was discussed in detail a few days after winning the election in November 1992 in the The New York Times article “Clinton to Promote High Technology, With Gore in Charge.”[16] They planned to finance research that “that will flood the economy with innovative goods and services, lifting the general level of prosperity and strengthening American industry.”
Refer Wikipedia…
These people are amazing! They have totally changed how people interact with computers and the internet. Quite a few were young’uns too.
Great post!
What about the creator of the first ever IM, ICQ? Or the inventor of IRC protocol?
Even though they’re not so hot any more, they definitely had a dominating role in the shaping of today’s internet – and should definitely be on that list…
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.
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Why my name is not in the list?
I have changed the internet to firefox
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?
Wow lots of commenting! I’m a big fan of Matt Mullenweg: thanks for WordPress.
That’s odd, I wonder why the person who made Firefox isn’t on here? (AKA Blake Ross)