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10 Peoples Who Changed the View of Internet

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 10:51 PM PST

The Internet that we surf today was not as it is in the past. It has changed a lot with the incoming of technologies. The work that we used to do physically in the past can be done virtually now, like emails , chatting, calling , and much more.

The peoples and the real geeks who are behind the united tech around us today are the brilliant minds. They changed the way we surf the Intranet today. We have gathered some such peoples.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page

Founders of Google


Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master's degree.

Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.

Jerry Yang

Co-Founder of Yahoo


Born in Taipei, Taiwan on November 6, 1968, Yang moved to San Jose, California at the age of ten, with his mother and younger brother. His father died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Becoming fluent in three years, he was placed into an AP English class.

Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross

Founders of Mozilla Firefox


Blake Aaron Ross (born June 12, 1985) is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser, in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt.

Dave Hyatt (June 28, 1972) is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Inc. (since July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework.

Jack Dorsey

Founder of Twitter


Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter.

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder of Facebook


Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer scientist and software developer best known for creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is CEO and president.

Steve Jobs

Founder of Apple Inc.


Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.

Bill Gates

Founder of Microsoft


William HenryBillGates III, (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and is chairman of Microsoft the software company he founded with Paul Allen.

Matt Mullenweg

Founder of WordPress


Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an entrepreneur living in San Francisco, California.

He is the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress and writes a popular blog ma.tt.

David Karp

Founder of Tumblr


David Karp (born 1986) is an entrepreneur living in New York City. He is the founder and CEO of the popular short-form blogging platform Tumblr.

Andy Rubin

Founder of Android


Andrew Rubin is a technology pioneer, co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android. He is currently VP of Engineering at Google, where he is overseeing development of Android, an open-source operating system for smartphones.

Bonus : 2 More Great Personalities

Kevin Rose

Founder of Digg


Kevin Rose (born Robert Kevin Rose, February 21, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who was a production assistant and temporary co-host at TechTV’s The Screen Savers, co-founded Revision3, Digg, and Pownce.

Lars Boilesen

Founder of Opera Browser


Lars Boilesen has extensive sales and business development experience from the global IT and telecommunications industries. He has held executive positions in various corporations including Alcatel-Lucent where he was CEO for the Nordics and the Baltics.

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