People who changed the way we use Internet

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People who changed the way we use Internet
Derek Blackwood

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Derek Blackwood

Feb 10, 2014

They have achieved their dreams, they can buy almost anything in the world, they are leaders in the era of Internet. Ladies and gentlemen, meet people who changed the way we use computers.

People who changed the Internet
While reading this text, you are using Internet but have you ever thought about people who provided you to have options you have today? These are the people responsible for the Internet we have today.


Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are two guys who created TCP/IP protocols, the language that enables computers to communicate online. Vint Cerf once said that the web is only a mirror of population, and spam is unwanted effect of free service.

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Tim Berners-Lee is the name of the creator of world wide web (www). He created the first server and designed the way we create link, hypertext and other parts of online information. He became the director of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and now he is working on improvement of www design.


Ray Tomlinson, the programmer who created e-mail and enabled sending messages from one computer to another all around the world. He came to an idea that @ should be the basic form of e-mail address. Today, more than billion people every day use this sign and send mails from one part of the world to another.


Larry Page and Sergey Brin – founders of Google. They have changed the way we search the web. Their company is growing every day. They own companies like Boston Dynamics, which is producing robots. Their operative system for mobile devices – Android, is the most popular in the world.


Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, he developed the first graphic operative system ever. You know that it is Windows, which is the most popular in the world. His operative system is used by most computers on the planet.


Steve Jobs – one of the founders of Apple and the creative genius in every sense. He changed the way we communicate, work and play.

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Chad Hurley, Steve Chan, Javed Kharim – these are the names of three guys who created Youtube. I don’t need to talk about this service, you all know a lot about it.

 


Mark Zuckerberg – The creator of Facebook. You probably know more things about him than me.

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Jack Dorsey – The guy who created Twitter. He created a social network to communicate with friends and family, and here is what he got. Now he is a billionaire and no one knew that Twitter is going to be that popular.


Jeff Bezos – the founder of Amazon, the most popular online shop in the world. If you didn’t know, the first name of this company is Cadabra Inc. He made shopping simpler and faster, and, believe it or not, Amazon earns $1084 every second.

 

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