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 $2.3 billion dollars.
Bill Gates – Microsoft
William Henry “Bill” Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.
What about Jeffrey Citron? He is the founder of Vonage and was responsible for bringing quality VoIP based telephony services to the masses. Additionally, he was a pioneering force in online investing when he brought Datek to the consumer masses.
m00t is necesarry. you could also just put anonymous, since moot just put up the site
Don’t forget moot, founder of 4chan. while he didn’t change the internet in a good way, he still changed the internet…
Nice work! Great collections!
Thanks! 😀
Great list. Many are geniuses, some are just lucky.
You never spoke about how the military used the internet. I have no connection I just think that it is a vital point in how it was created. On a sadder note, what the @&$!. I kick myself every time I see a new site take off. It reminds me of my favorite invention, the paper clip. Why didn’t I think of that, so simple.
moot! not Moot! Small m! And yes, he should be in the list, for all that is holy and beloved.
We should include her the person with the good sense to put this list together.
A very interesting read, but there are a couple of items I would lke to add:
1. There is nothing much about Firefox and Mozilla which is a shame and
2. There is not much about ms windows which, surely, is
a good thing, eh?
I found this page using stumbleupon haha
😀
Hey! How about rms!
@SuperSparky: are you serious? Bill Gates is the reason 90% of the world knows the internet even exists. Apple was great for people who could afford a $12,000 computer, Linux was great if you had 8 years of college on your back. Bill Gates, evil bastard he is, brought the internet to the common man, just as Henry Ford brought the automobile. Sneer all you want, were it not for Win 95 on my 486dx, I wouldn’t be here today, and likely neither would you.
@ Walter Earnshaw The reason I didn’t add Creators of FireFox is that they weren’t the pioneers of internet back in the early days of the web. Although now the scenario has changed, they haven’t developed anything out of the ordinary. Bill Gates the creator of Microsoft has already been mentioned above in the list.
@ Dan Dart Call me ignorant but who is RMS??! :S
@ Dwindle Thanks for sharing your views with our readers!
needs more m00t
gosling not on the list? All I can say is where would we be without javascript?
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Hey thanks for collecting that Great Info.
I like it Very much
My pleasure!
You have Matt Mullenweg, but not Evan Williams of Blogger, which was the first dedicated free blogging service?
Thanks for sharing your views. I’ll add him shortly
18th name will be mine. in next few years……. wanan bet on that…… just wait n watch…
thx for given precious information about these genius
Great list, but I really think that the web would be a completely different place without WordPress. It’s a real equalizer that has allowed anybody from anywhere to have a voice online. In my opinion it’s the modern day equivalent to Gutenbergs printing press.
While you included Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
how can u forget Sabir Bhatia?
*Ahem* and Moot?
Where’s m00t?
Wonderfully inspiring article. I loved it. Could be improved for American (and possibly all English speaking) Consumers by having a professional editor review before publishing. Just a little nit-picky detail. Hope you take it in the right spirit. If a foreign writer didn’t write this, then U BETTER GO BACK TO SCHOOL!
This list is in dire need of m00t
Hmm, need moar m00t
You forgot Daddy! Tumblr’s creator, David Carp 😀
great persons thank you for the list, i am going to stumble here
why is moot not on this list?
he is undoubtedly deserving of recognition here.
I STUMBLE UPON THIS SITE… GrEaT!! Thx Garrett Camp :)) WHAT ABOUT SKYPE???????
Greate List… They are really great minds…why im not getting any Idea like them???? 🙂
Most inspiring article..
youth icon at IT industry…
Genius? highly unlikely its more being in the right time and at the right place, there have been millions of file sharing sites and social networking sites before any of these crap sites came around. The programmers behind the original social network sites got little or no recognition. Get familiar with http://www.archive.org you can see some of the orginal lending pages such as youtube… they look absolutely pathetic. Without a doubt, luck in all of its forms can make something like that into what it is today
the internet is a perverted and delusional world.
I think that the way the internet is being ‘molested’ / ‘exploited’ is compromising the safety of users – violating the rights and intellectual property of actors, actresses, musicians and LEGITIMATE software developers.
To what extent my opinion stems from either an issue of personal experience or dissatisfaction from the internet – to which extent I feel the technology is abused and unfairly controlled to capitalize and corrupt upon its users. What I mean to say is that I don’t like communism – communists operations that I predict will eventually crash and burn as internet technology begins to mature.
I think that the majority of internet innovations are actually in reality legal misfits that cost other industries and in the majority of considerations this cost is unfairly established.
Beyond legitimate and capitalistic pursuits being established online I see an enormous amount of spying, lying and deception. Meanwhile the quality of information that is processed and merchandised to users is very very poor.
“The internet is a garbage dump for the worlds minds”
I would like to see the internet become a constructive, cooperative environment instead of a discrete sleazy pit of criminals and stalkers waiting to pounce on unsuspecting users who are none the wiser to the sick and twisted minds of people who have colonized the internet to date.
I am very proud of what I have wrote and it expresses my opinion of the internet and the ‘quality’ of companies exploiting the technology today.
<3 XOX 😀 Josh
whatever happened to freedom of speech you fucking faggot piece of shit!!!!!!