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.
Richard Stallman missing.
Please please pleeease remove Bill Gates. Listen to everyones comments here, they are ALL correct! It’s not about “hating” the guy, just about the fact he hasn’t changed the internet in any astounding way.
I’m wondering if you’re being paid by Microsoft to keep his name there 😉
Well how did you know?!?! LoL. 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! 😀
Very true, I personally owe my life to these people!!! :p
Great list. I agree with them all!
What? No Blacks changed the internet? Wack!
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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@mackney
awesome list.thanks alot for this information.its an aspiration to webmasters
I think you forgot another great guy who changed the web. His name is Totò Cocozza, one of the greatest webfrauds-hunter in the world and when he find them, he disembowel them.
Very interesting srticle
Excellent article, Google is the king of internet evolution.
I thought al gore invented the internet
*rolls eyes*
Now you know that he didn’t!!
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
What about del.icio.us?
And don’t forget about Mozilla.
Well mozilla and Delicious does not qualify for this list. They haven’t made such an impact on our lives yet. Anyways thanks for sharing 🙂
What about Sabeer Bhatia and his hotmail.com?
Very beautiful list – i was really excited to read it through! Thanks!
Very interesting article!
But I want the founder of Mozilla Firefox to be in it.
And the creators of Firefox and Java? And Flash?
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.
@ Freeware Files, swefse and Blaz
I appreciate your thoughts, although they made our life much easier but they are not the pioneers of the web. They only improved something that was already there.
Unfortunately they do not qualify for our criterion.
Stumbled on this, ironic.
Good find!
Thoroughly enjoyable!
Great comprehensive view of important people on the net. I disagree with some of those people who “changed the net”. Many of them didn’t really create anything innovative. For example amazon is nothing that innovative but on the other hand Wikipedia was a very innovative idea.
While I am not a huge fan of our current US President, Barack Obama, I would have to say that his team at least changed how politicians use the internet.
It seems like any politician that wants to stand a chance has to be on Twitter and Facebook and pretty much every other social networking site.
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?
What about Photobucket? I use that everyday and have no idea who founded it.
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.
4chan is fucking full of fags and losers its not a widely popular site.
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?
I agree; it will be twice as long with more young entrepreneurs making our lives better!
What about Janus Friis?
Kazaa, Skype and Joost!
Their eyes all read of too much time on the computer…burn out.
lol 😀 Good observation. I agree 🙂
Tom from myspace did more to change internet than facebook.
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…
Refill CartridgesCould you share stuff that he did with our viewer?
Danyal Nawazish Neither have I…. 😀
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.
I agree with him!