15 people who changed the Internet
Here are 15 people who really changed today's Internet!
1.Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Created by the World Wide Web)
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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 would be the first, but still decided to put the “creator” of the Internet in the first place, because without it, there would be no Google, Yahho, Habra and everything else. :)
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Inc.)
These are two outstanding 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 estimated at $ 25 billion. Dollars.
3. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Mark is a Harvard graduate and a young billionaire - he is only 24 years old. He made the social network Facebook (Facematch - the original name), which overtook the existing MySpace at the time and stifled other social networks. By the way, Mark launched Facebook from his university dorm room in 2004. Later bought Facebook.com, and now it has a net profit of 1.5 billion US dollars. Agree not sickly for the stolen idea and in 24 years.
4. Kevin Rose (Digg)
Digg.com is a social news site launched in 2004. Where can I add my own news that other users will "approve" or "bury." Of course the best news go to the main page. At the end of August 2006, half a million participants registered on the site. Kevin Rose also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 in addition to his popular Digg.com. Kevin made Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer, whom he paid $ 12 per hour through the eLance service. Later, Kevin bought Digg.com for $ 1,200. Digg especially evolved when $ 2.8 million was invested in this project.
5. Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
Blogs might not even be if it were not for Matt. He came up with WordPress - this is an open source blogging platform. Matt also founded Automattic and Akismet, a famous 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 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 in the CodeCon conference, and later he began to lure beta testers, collecting free pornography. Then he worked for some time at Valve, but left from there to work at BitTorrent Inc. together with his brother and partner.
7. Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Pierre is the founder of eBay , an online auction that links buyers and sellers. Pierre wrote the eBay source code when he was 28 years old in 1995. At first, he wanted to call him Echo Bay (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, including 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)
In 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 per 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 (English Craigslist literally " Craig 's List" in honor of the founder Craig Newark) - the newspaper of electronic announcements was 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 alexa.com rating). His ads cover over 450 cities in the world. 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)
The founders of the super popular YouTube . The project was founded in February 2005 by three former Paypal employees. They used Flash Video (flv) technology to get good recording quality with a small amount of data transferred. The project has become a good means of entertainment and, having formed its own community, according to statistics from analytical company Alexa , has outperformed the social network MySpace . In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $ 1.65 billion. Chad was 28 years old, and Steve was 27 years old when they founded YouTube.
12. David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc)
In January 1994, Stanford University graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang created a website called Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web ( http://akebono.stanford.edu ) . "Guide" was a catalog of other sites. In December 1994, this website has already received over a million hits. Realizing his potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang in April 1994 renamed the site to Yahoo! . David Filo and Jerry Yang have a net profit of 2.9 and 2.3 billion US dollars, respectively.
13. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba group. He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a prominent B2B representative focused mainly on China, and also serves international companies. The Alibaba group later founded TaoBao.com, which is very similar to eBay, but instead of paying via PayPal, the currency of TaoBao is AliPay. Yahoo Ink acquired 40% of the company for over $ 1 billion.
14. Jeff Preston Bezos (Amazon)
Jeff Bezos - Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO of Amazon.com - a large company engaged in electronic commerce, i.e. sells products online. The company's turnover in 2006 was $ 10.7 billion, and its net profit was 190 million.
15. Gottfrid Svartholm (The Pirate Bay)
Gottfrid made The Pirate Bay when he was 24 years old in 2004. Pirate Bay received many controversial comments from all over the world, but this made the pirate bay even more popular. For 21 days, it moved from 258 to 136 place according to Alexa.com rankings. Now he is at 102 place (May 14, 2008. 00:29)
That's all, these “super” people who should become an example for habouriors. Perhaps you say that THEY were in the "right place at the right time" or "they had a great idea," but believe me, this time is now for you and that it is not the ideas that are much more important, but their implementation! And as the story tells me - that more success was brought, no matter how strange it sounded, stolen ideas and they rule the world (windows, facebook, contact, etc.), no no, I do not call you to steal ideas, it’s much better to implement its unique, although well-implemented other people's ideas also have the right to life.
PS based on article 15 People Who Changed the Internet which was supplemented with information from Wiki.
1.Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Created by the World Wide Web)
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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 would be the first, but still decided to put the “creator” of the Internet in the first place, because without it, there would be no Google, Yahho, Habra and everything else. :)
2. Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google Inc.)
These are two outstanding 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 estimated at $ 25 billion. Dollars.
3. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Mark is a Harvard graduate and a young billionaire - he is only 24 years old. He made the social network Facebook (Facematch - the original name), which overtook the existing MySpace at the time and stifled other social networks. By the way, Mark launched Facebook from his university dorm room in 2004. Later bought Facebook.com, and now it has a net profit of 1.5 billion US dollars. Agree not sickly for the stolen idea and in 24 years.
4. Kevin Rose (Digg)
Digg.com is a social news site launched in 2004. Where can I add my own news that other users will "approve" or "bury." Of course the best news go to the main page. At the end of August 2006, half a million participants registered on the site. Kevin Rose also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 in addition to his popular Digg.com. Kevin made Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer, whom he paid $ 12 per hour through the eLance service. Later, Kevin bought Digg.com for $ 1,200. Digg especially evolved when $ 2.8 million was invested in this project.
5. Matt Mullenweg (WordPress)
Blogs might not even be if it were not for Matt. He came up with WordPress - this is an open source blogging platform. Matt also founded Automattic and Akismet, a famous 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 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 in the CodeCon conference, and later he began to lure beta testers, collecting free pornography. Then he worked for some time at Valve, but left from there to work at BitTorrent Inc. together with his brother and partner.
7. Pierre Omidyar (eBay)
Pierre is the founder of eBay , an online auction that links buyers and sellers. Pierre wrote the eBay source code when he was 28 years old in 1995. At first, he wanted to call him Echo Bay (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, including 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)
In 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 per 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 (English Craigslist literally " Craig 's List" in honor of the founder Craig Newark) - the newspaper of electronic announcements was 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 alexa.com rating). His ads cover over 450 cities in the world. 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)
The founders of the super popular YouTube . The project was founded in February 2005 by three former Paypal employees. They used Flash Video (flv) technology to get good recording quality with a small amount of data transferred. The project has become a good means of entertainment and, having formed its own community, according to statistics from analytical company Alexa , has outperformed the social network MySpace . In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $ 1.65 billion. Chad was 28 years old, and Steve was 27 years old when they founded YouTube.
12. David Filo and Jerry Yang (Yahoo! Inc)
In January 1994, Stanford University graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang created a website called Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web ( http://akebono.stanford.edu ) . "Guide" was a catalog of other sites. In December 1994, this website has already received over a million hits. Realizing his potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang in April 1994 renamed the site to Yahoo! . David Filo and Jerry Yang have a net profit of 2.9 and 2.3 billion US dollars, respectively.
13. Jack Ma (Alibaba)
Jack Ma is the founder and CEO of the Alibaba group. He founded Alibaba.com in 1999, a prominent B2B representative focused mainly on China, and also serves international companies. The Alibaba group later founded TaoBao.com, which is very similar to eBay, but instead of paying via PayPal, the currency of TaoBao is AliPay. Yahoo Ink acquired 40% of the company for over $ 1 billion.
14. Jeff Preston Bezos (Amazon)
Jeff Bezos - Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO of Amazon.com - a large company engaged in electronic commerce, i.e. sells products online. The company's turnover in 2006 was $ 10.7 billion, and its net profit was 190 million.
15. Gottfrid Svartholm (The Pirate Bay)
Gottfrid made The Pirate Bay when he was 24 years old in 2004. Pirate Bay received many controversial comments from all over the world, but this made the pirate bay even more popular. For 21 days, it moved from 258 to 136 place according to Alexa.com rankings. Now he is at 102 place (May 14, 2008. 00:29)
That's all, these “super” people who should become an example for habouriors. Perhaps you say that THEY were in the "right place at the right time" or "they had a great idea," but believe me, this time is now for you and that it is not the ideas that are much more important, but their implementation! And as the story tells me - that more success was brought, no matter how strange it sounded, stolen ideas and they rule the world (windows, facebook, contact, etc.), no no, I do not call you to steal ideas, it’s much better to implement its unique, although well-implemented other people's ideas also have the right to life.
PS based on article 15 People Who Changed the Internet which was supplemented with information from Wiki.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/25275/
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