May 13, 2008 at 01:1915 people who have changed the Internet
Here are 15 people who have truly changed the internet today!
1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Created the World Wide Web)
He invented the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is also the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. W3c also includes companies that create standards and improve the Internet.
PS I hesitated for a long time choosing who will be the first, but still decided to put the "creator" of the Internet in first place, because without it, Google, Yahho, Habr and everything else would not have happened. :)
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Inc.)
These are two prominent billionaires in the Internet world, perhaps Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in the history of the Internet. Everyone probably knows that they are graduates of Stanford University. But interesting is the fact that the first Google site was launched on the Stanford domain (google.stanford.edu). And only later, in 1997, Google.com was registered . And now this company is valued at $ 25 billion.
3. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Mark, a Harvard graduate and young billionaire, is only 24 years old. He made the social network Facebook on the Internet(Facematch - the original name), which surpassed the existing at that time MySpace and crushed other social networks. By the way, Mark launched Facebook from his university dorm room in 2004. He later bought Facebook.com, and now he has a net profit of $ 1.5 billion. Agree not sickly for a stolen idea and in 24 years.
4. Kevin Rose (Digg)
Digg.com- A social news site launched in 2004. Where can I add my own news, which other users “approve” or “bury”. Of course, the best news gets to the main page. At the end of August 2006, a half million member registered on the site. Kevin Rose also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 in addition to his popular Digg.com. Kevin did Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer, whom he paid $ 12 per hour through the eLance service. Kevin later bought Digg.com for $ 1,200. Digg developed especially when $ 2.8 million was allocated for this project.
5. Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
Blogging might not even have happened if it hadn't been for Matt. He invented WordPress, an open source blogging platform. Matt also founded Automattic and Akismet, a well-known anti-spam fighter. At the age of 24, leaves CNET to focus on WordPress e. WordPress source code Matt wrote back in 19 years. Now that WordPress is popular, more and more bloggers are switching to it.
6. Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
Bram Cohen is a developer, co-founder and author of BitTorrent. He is also a co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he left MojoNation to work on BitTorrent. First of all, he showed his ideas at the CodeCon conference, and later he began to lure beta testers, collecting free pornography. Then he worked for some time at Valve, but left there to work at BitTorrent Inc. along with his brother and partner.
7. Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Pierre founder of eBay, an online auction that connects buyers and sellers. Pierre wrote the source code for eBay when he was 28 in 1995. At first, he wanted to call him echobay as well as his consulting firm, but echobay.com was busy. Then the name had to be reduced to eBay.com. The company's turnover is 7.7 billion US dollars per year.
8. Mike Morhaime (Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft)
Michael Morhaime is president of Blizzard Entertainment, and Blizzard is the creator of some of the most popular computer games, Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft, as well as the online game World of Warcraft (WoW). WoW is 10 million online gamers and $ 1.5 billion in US revenue annually.
9. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)
At 9th place, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, an open online encyclopedia that was founded in 2001. He is also a co-founder of a private hosting company established in 2004. As of April 2008, Wikipedia has 683 million visitors a year, 10 million articles in 253 languages, and currently the site is among the ten most visited websites in the world.
10. Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
Craigslist (Eng. Craigslist literally " Craig 's list " in honor of the founder Craig Newark) - newspaper electronic ads created in 1995. The total number of visitors in 2007 was 30 million people, which made the site 56th in the world in popularity (47th in the ranking of alexa.com). His ads cover over 450 cities of the world. The total revenue for 2007 is estimated in the range of 10-30 million dollars.
ps Note the site is nowhere easier ...;)
11. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (YouTube)
Founders of the super popular YouTube . The project was founded in February 2005 by three former Paypal employees. They used Flash Video (flv) technology , which allows to obtain good recording quality with a small amount of transmitted data. The project has become a good means of entertainment and, having formed its own community, according to the statistics of the analytical company Alexa , outstripped the social network MySpace in popularity . In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $ 1.65 billion. Chad was 28 years old and Stevewere 27 years old when they founded YouTube.
12. David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc)
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang created a website called Jerry’s World Wide Web Guide ( http: / /akebono.stanford.edu ) . "Guide" was a directory of other sites. In December 1994, this website already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Young renamed the site Yahoo! in April 1994. . David Filo and Jerry Young have a net profit of $ 2.9 and 2.3 billion, respectively.
13. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of Alibaba Group . He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a vibrant B2B representative focused primarily on China, and also serves international companies. Alibaba later founded TaoBao.com, which is very similar to eBay, but instead of paying via PayPal, TaoBao's currency is AliPay. Yahoo Ink acquired 40% of the company for more than $ 1 billion.
14. Jeff Preston Bezos (Amazon)
Jeff Bezos - founder, chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com - a large company engaged in electronic commerce, i.e. sells goods over the Internet. The company's turnover in 2006 amounted to $ 10.7 billion US dollars, and net profit of 190 million.
15. Gottfrid Svartholm (The Pirate Bay)
Gottfrid made The Pirate Bay when he was 24 years old in 2004. The pirate bay received many conflicting comments from all over the world, but this made the pirate bay even more popular. For 21 days, she moved from 258 to 136th place according to Alexa.com. Now he is already at 102 place (May 14, 2008 00:29)
That's all, these "super" people who should become an example for habroyuzer. Perhaps you will say that they were in the “right place at the right time” or “they had a cool idea,” but believe me, this time has already come for you and that it’s much more important than the idea, but their implementation! And as history tells me - that stolen ideas and they rule the world (windows, facebook, in contact, etc.) brought more success, no matter how strange it sounds, no, no, I do not urge you to steal ideas, it’s much better to implement its unique, although well-realized other people's ideas also have the right to life.
PS based on article 15 People Who Changed the Internet which was supplemented by information from the Wiki.
1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Created the World Wide Web)
He invented the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is also the founder of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. W3c also includes companies that create standards and improve the Internet.
PS I hesitated for a long time choosing who will be the first, but still decided to put the "creator" of the Internet in first place, because without it, Google, Yahho, Habr and everything else would not have happened. :)
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Inc.)
These are two prominent billionaires in the Internet world, perhaps Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in the history of the Internet. Everyone probably knows that they are graduates of Stanford University. But interesting is the fact that the first Google site was launched on the Stanford domain (google.stanford.edu). And only later, in 1997, Google.com was registered . And now this company is valued at $ 25 billion.
3. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Mark, a Harvard graduate and young billionaire, is only 24 years old. He made the social network Facebook on the Internet(Facematch - the original name), which surpassed the existing at that time MySpace and crushed other social networks. By the way, Mark launched Facebook from his university dorm room in 2004. He later bought Facebook.com, and now he has a net profit of $ 1.5 billion. Agree not sickly for a stolen idea and in 24 years.
4. Kevin Rose (Digg)
Digg.com- A social news site launched in 2004. Where can I add my own news, which other users “approve” or “bury”. Of course, the best news gets to the main page. At the end of August 2006, a half million member registered on the site. Kevin Rose also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 in addition to his popular Digg.com. Kevin did Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer, whom he paid $ 12 per hour through the eLance service. Kevin later bought Digg.com for $ 1,200. Digg developed especially when $ 2.8 million was allocated for this project.
5. Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
Blogging might not even have happened if it hadn't been for Matt. He invented WordPress, an open source blogging platform. Matt also founded Automattic and Akismet, a well-known anti-spam fighter. At the age of 24, leaves CNET to focus on WordPress e. WordPress source code Matt wrote back in 19 years. Now that WordPress is popular, more and more bloggers are switching to it.
6. Bram Cohen (BitTorrent)
Bram Cohen is a developer, co-founder and author of BitTorrent. He is also a co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he left MojoNation to work on BitTorrent. First of all, he showed his ideas at the CodeCon conference, and later he began to lure beta testers, collecting free pornography. Then he worked for some time at Valve, but left there to work at BitTorrent Inc. along with his brother and partner.
7. Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Pierre founder of eBay, an online auction that connects buyers and sellers. Pierre wrote the source code for eBay when he was 28 in 1995. At first, he wanted to call him echobay as well as his consulting firm, but echobay.com was busy. Then the name had to be reduced to eBay.com. The company's turnover is 7.7 billion US dollars per year.
8. Mike Morhaime (Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft)
Michael Morhaime is president of Blizzard Entertainment, and Blizzard is the creator of some of the most popular computer games, Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft, as well as the online game World of Warcraft (WoW). WoW is 10 million online gamers and $ 1.5 billion in US revenue annually.
9. Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia)
At 9th place, Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, an open online encyclopedia that was founded in 2001. He is also a co-founder of a private hosting company established in 2004. As of April 2008, Wikipedia has 683 million visitors a year, 10 million articles in 253 languages, and currently the site is among the ten most visited websites in the world.
10. Craig Newmark (Craigslist)
Craigslist (Eng. Craigslist literally " Craig 's list " in honor of the founder Craig Newark) - newspaper electronic ads created in 1995. The total number of visitors in 2007 was 30 million people, which made the site 56th in the world in popularity (47th in the ranking of alexa.com). His ads cover over 450 cities of the world. The total revenue for 2007 is estimated in the range of 10-30 million dollars.
ps Note the site is nowhere easier ...;)
11. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen (YouTube)
Founders of the super popular YouTube . The project was founded in February 2005 by three former Paypal employees. They used Flash Video (flv) technology , which allows to obtain good recording quality with a small amount of transmitted data. The project has become a good means of entertainment and, having formed its own community, according to the statistics of the analytical company Alexa , outstripped the social network MySpace in popularity . In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $ 1.65 billion. Chad was 28 years old and Stevewere 27 years old when they founded YouTube.
12. David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc)
In January 1994, Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang created a website called Jerry’s World Wide Web Guide ( http: / /akebono.stanford.edu ) . "Guide" was a directory of other sites. In December 1994, this website already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Young renamed the site Yahoo! in April 1994. . David Filo and Jerry Young have a net profit of $ 2.9 and 2.3 billion, respectively.
13. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of Alibaba Group . He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a vibrant B2B representative focused primarily on China, and also serves international companies. Alibaba later founded TaoBao.com, which is very similar to eBay, but instead of paying via PayPal, TaoBao's currency is AliPay. Yahoo Ink acquired 40% of the company for more than $ 1 billion.
14. Jeff Preston Bezos (Amazon)
Jeff Bezos - founder, chairman of the board of directors, president and chief executive officer of Amazon.com - a large company engaged in electronic commerce, i.e. sells goods over the Internet. The company's turnover in 2006 amounted to $ 10.7 billion US dollars, and net profit of 190 million.
15. Gottfrid Svartholm (The Pirate Bay)
Gottfrid made The Pirate Bay when he was 24 years old in 2004. The pirate bay received many conflicting comments from all over the world, but this made the pirate bay even more popular. For 21 days, she moved from 258 to 136th place according to Alexa.com. Now he is already at 102 place (May 14, 2008 00:29)
That's all, these "super" people who should become an example for habroyuzer. Perhaps you will say that they were in the “right place at the right time” or “they had a cool idea,” but believe me, this time has already come for you and that it’s much more important than the idea, but their implementation! And as history tells me - that stolen ideas and they rule the world (windows, facebook, in contact, etc.) brought more success, no matter how strange it sounds, no, no, I do not urge you to steal ideas, it’s much better to implement its unique, although well-realized other people's ideas also have the right to life.
PS based on article 15 People Who Changed the Internet which was supplemented by information from the Wiki.