Named .com 25 - companies and people who have made significant contributions to the development of the Internet
In March, the domain .com turned 25 years old. During the year, the domain administrator, VeriSign, will hold many events, the task of which is not only to celebrate the anniversary, but also to tell about the people and companies that created .com and thus made a significant contribution to the development of the Internet.
On May 26, a solemn rewarding ceremony was held for those who entered “ .com 25 ”. The most deserving were chosen from 75 applicants - people and companies who made the most significant contribution to the development of the Internet. Here is the list of winners:
Verisign also plans to allocate 4 grants of 75 thousand dollars to those who will offer the most promising ways for the development of the domain in the next 25 years. Development projects should be submitted to the jury by September 1, and grant recipients will be announced on October 15.
On May 26, a solemn rewarding ceremony was held for those who entered “ .com 25 ”. The most deserving were chosen from 75 applicants - people and companies who made the most significant contribution to the development of the Internet. Here is the list of winners:
- Alibaba Group , which opened the .com domain to business structures in China;
- Amazon.com and Jeffrey Bezos , founder of the online store;
- AOL and Steve Case , who simplified the process of receiving and viewing email for the masses;
- Apple and Steve Jobs , co-founder and CEO;
- Baidu , Chinese search engine;
- Cisco and John Chambers , CEO;
- Craigslist , newspaper electronic ads;
- eBay and Pierre Omidyar , founder of the auction;
- eTRADE.com ;
- Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg , developer and founder of the social network;
- Google , Larry Page and Sergey Brin , the founders of the corporation;
- Infosys , India's largest Internet company;
- Intel and Andrew Grove , CEO;
- Microsoft / MSN / Gates Foundation and Bill Gates ;
- MySpace , a social network;
- Napster , a program for downloading music files;
- Netscape and Marc Andreessen , Principal Browser Developer;
- Netscape / Web MD and Jim Clark , founder;
- Paypal , online payment service;
- Sun Microsystems and Scott McNealy , Founder;
- Tim Berners-Lee , inventor of the WWW protocol;
- Twitter , microblogging service;
- Vinton Cerf , one of the developers of the TCP / IP protocol;
- Yahoo , Jerry Yang and David Filo , creators of the corporation;
- YouTube , video hosting service.
Verisign also plans to allocate 4 grants of 75 thousand dollars to those who will offer the most promising ways for the development of the domain in the next 25 years. Development projects should be submitted to the jury by September 1, and grant recipients will be announced on October 15.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/95169/
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