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.
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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;)
Inspirational. As I scroll through, so glad to see there’s a lady representative among the males. I’m sure there’re still more of them to come. ^^ Bravo to all of these pioneers. Ever wonder How the World Wide Web would look like without them? ……yeah, different names, maybe? ^^
Great job for compiling the list.
Thanks a lot for the appreciation Ching Ya
What about Kijiji?????
Who’s Kijiji?!?
bob kahn and vint– read “when wizards stay up late”. they are the roots that made these grasstops possible.
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.
Hmmm… A typical American list. Where is Niklas Zennstrom, inventor of Skype and Kazaa?!? AND where are all the “real Internet gurus”?!? Like Robert E. Kahn and Vinton Cerf who invented the TCP/IP protocol. Where is James Gosling, the father of Java?
Where the hell is Moot???
@ Neo Give me one good reason why Moot should be on this list?
Great list. Never seen pictures of some of the people.
Thanks Kyle. Glad you liked it 🙂
where is richard stallman? He is so important
Great. Thought Steve Wozniak of Apple be on the list.
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. Thank you for sharing.
Indeed they are. I thank you for taking your time and reading this post!
You forgot to include – “Sabeer Bhatia”, co-founder of Hotmail and an entrepreneur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabeer_Bhatia
LOL!
And where the f*** is the founder of 4Chan, humm?
Give me one good reason why should he be included in this list?!
I wish you will also update me on this list after 3-4 years.
EVERYBODY WISH ME LUCK FOR WHATEVER I AM cREATING.
Sure I would love to! Do let me know after 3-4 years. BEST OF LUCK!
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.
This is an un-ordered list, no point of ranking anyone!
And how about the inventor of the smiley 🙂
haha! Do you think it changed the internet?
you forgot moot you fools
Give me one good reason why he should be in the list?
RMS missing
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.
The sad thing is I had created a website similar to twitter, with the SMS integration a few years back, and the software was stolen so I gave up on the project. I had several people using my software without my permission, but hey what can you do. I have created many websites that are similar to twitter, flickr way before they where even a thought in the current creators mind. It sucks, it really does.
Its really annoying and unfair if any one steals your hardwork and attributes it to himself. 🙁
You forgot 4chan up there. It started with the motivational posters and the lolcats/can i has chezburgr. Hell 4chan created a lot of internet jokes and if you have retarded things like Myspace and Facebook up there then you should have Moot up there as the creator of 4chan.
I think you should put the guy who invetned 4chan on here.
Great list! Thanks!
@ 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! Glad you liked it. 🙂
bill gates?
what did he do for the internet?
Read the comments and you’ll find the answer.