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.
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.