People Who Formed the Internet

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Deadly Sushi

Formerly The Giant Mojito
Follow the link and here are a few to whet your whistle:
http://www.skidzopedia.com/2008/11/21/17-people-who-enhanced-the-web/


Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google Inc.

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Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend’s. And they were defiantly not building steam engines!
They were, however, creating the internet’s most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world’s most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.
Google was first launched on Stanford’s website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.
David Filo and Jerry Yang - Yahoo! Inc.

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Yahoo! too is the creation of two Stanford University’s Electrical Engineer graduates, called Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and named it “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. Then, he decided to switch it to Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo
In December 1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified Yahoo! as a web portal.
David Filo’s net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and Jerry Yang’s is $2.3 billion dollars.
Bill Gates - Microsoft

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William Henry “Bill” Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world’s third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.
Steven Paul Jobs - Apple Inc.

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Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)
After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets.
Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company’s largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and industries.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook

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One of the most admired and successful youngster of the 21st century is a 24 years old Harvard graduate - the world’s youngest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion
He founded Facebook, the online social networking website. Zuckerberg launched The Facebook (FaceMatch) from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and started promoting it to all Ivy League schools and some Boston institutions.
Soon, he bought over Facebook.com domain name. Facebook is now a household name with people of all ages, groups and interests, interacting with each other. Its business and pleasure at the same time!
Kevin Rose - Digg

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You all know Kevin, don’t you? Perhaps one of the most respected internet idealist and TV show host, Kevin Rose has definitely placed a huge impacts among all Digg users.
He became well known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV’s popular show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! ) until his departure from the network on May 2005.
He also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 besides his popular Digg.com, social-bookmarking website. He created Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer who Kevin Rose paid $12 per hour through eLance.
Kevin Rose later bought Digg.com domain name for $1,200 and then went on to buy larger server space. Digg received an ultra boost of capitals when they received $2.8 million of venture capital from Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners.
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent

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Best known as the developer, co-founder and author behind peer-to-peer sharing, Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent. The other day a cousin of mine said “Bit Torrent has made life easier!” That’s how easily we can sum up the achievements of this man.
Bram Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he quit his job at MojoNation to work in BitTorrent. He firstly revealed his ideas in a CodeCon conference and started luring beta testers by collecting free pornography.
He then spent some time working with Valve, but quit his job later to work in BitTorrent Inc. with his brother and business partner Mike Morhaime - Blizzard Entertainment
Mike Morhaime - Blizzard Entertainment

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Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by Activision Blizzard.
He is best know for his creation of a popular online gaming fantasy, World of Warcraft (WoW). It has over 10 million online gamers, raking Morhaime at least $1.5 billion every year.
 
I thought you were gonna go back to the roots and talk ARPAnet and the true father....Charles M. Herzfeld. Oops!

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Well, at least you didn’t post pics of AL Gore!!! :yum:
 
Actually if you really want to know the people who invented the intenet It was 2 guys fromt he 60's working on a file transfer protocol, I can't remember their names though!


These yahoo's where trail blazers only.
 
Derek said:
Actually if you really want to know the people who invented the intenet It was 2 guys fromt he 60's working on a file transfer protocol, I can't remember their names though!


These yahoo's where trail blazers only.
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No...I'm pretty sure Keltin is right - it was Al Gore.


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Fisher's Mom said:
No...I'm pretty sure Keltin is right - it was Al Gore.


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Actually, I was right the first time in speaking of ARPAnet. It's part of the CNE test. Back in the day, when it was desired to connect remote terminals, they desired a way to do it over twisted pair. They came up with a packet based delivery system (IP – Internet Protocol as we know it now), and it was a military funded experiment (for the most part….but most of the work was done in colleges). It worked, took off, the military soon saw it was too wide spread, and pulled out thus breaking the military portion of ARPAnet off into MILnet (military net) and made their own private internet. ARPAnet went on to become the public internet that we know today.

But, of course, you all KNOW……Al Gore was pushing all of that back in the 60s when it happened right?!?!?! :yum:
 
Al Gore is a PUTZ................... The snows of Kilamajero are melting, the mountain only sits on the Equator. Please, don't get me started, I might laugh myself to death
 
They have a real cool exhibit on this at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago. Maps it out from start to finish.

And yes, it all started with Al Gore...:tongue:

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Just to add a bit to what Keltin said, part of the impetus for designing an "internet" was to allow the government to have uninterrupted communications in the event of a nuclear attack. That's why Internet communications are sent in small packets of data that often take different routes to their destination and then are reassembled and presented to the requestor.

re: Al Gore, in the interest of setting the record straight, I give you snopes.com:

Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. "

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing might have been a bit clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings; the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
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Maverick2272 said:
They have a real cool exhibit on this at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago. Maps it out from start to finish.

And yes, it all started with Al Gore...:tongue:

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Absolutely. Gore said it on national TV so it is highly unlikely to be a false statement. There are laws you know! :lol:
 
buzzard767 said:
That he invented the Internet, of course. R U taking me seriously? :yum:
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Well, the entire point is that I think it's really unfair to perpetuate the myth that he said that by repeating it as if it's just a joke.

btw, I sent a Marine friend of mine (a retired woman colonel) the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt in your sig (that was yours, wasn't it? it's gone now); she wrote back that it made her laugh. :biggrin:
 
GotGarlic said:
Well, the entire point is that I think it's really unfair to perpetuate the myth that he said that by repeating it as if it's just a joke.

btw, I sent a Marine friend of mine (a retired woman colonel) the quote by Eleanor Roosevelt in your sig (that was yours, wasn't it? it's gone now); she wrote back that it made her laugh. :biggrin:
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I change sigs frequently.

As we say in the Marines, take your pack off.

Buzz
 
GotGarlic said:
Just to add a bit to what Keltin said, part of the impetus for designing an "internet" was to allow the government to have uninterrupted communications in the event of a nuclear attack. That's why Internet communications are sent in small packets of data that often take different routes to their destination and then are reassembled and presented to the requestor.

re: Al Gore, in the interest of setting the record straight, I give you snopes.com:
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My only problem with that is, the Internet (ARPANET) was conceptualized in 1962. It went into full development in 1969, and the first email was sent in 1971.

Al Gore enrolled in Harvard in 1965, decided to become and English major and write a book in 1967, and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in government in 1969. He then joined the Army for a 2 year stint from 1969 to 1971. He then went to Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1971 to 1972. He then worked as an investigative reporter until 1976.

In 1976, he began serving in Congress.

So Gore didn’t get into Congress until five years after the first successful email transmission. What exactly did he have to do with it’s creation back in 1969 when the ARAPNET contract was awarded to BBN Technologies? In 1969, Gore was in the Army.

Government functions split from ARPANET in 1983 and became MILNET. The remainder of ARPANET grew into the internet we know today. In the 80s, Gore “talked” about high speed communications as a Congressman, and gave the technology high praise. But it wasn’t until 1991, as a Senator, that he actually did anything but talk. In 1991 the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 was passed. That, dubbed the Gore Bill, led to the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The NII didn’t create anything, but rather led to more deployment of what was already created.

I’m not sure how Al Gore can even HINT at having a hand in creating the internet? The net was already up and running in the 70’s and it only grew from there. Gore passed a bill that helped it grow faster, but the fact is, it was already there and was going to grow anyway.
 
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