10 Who We Need To Thank

1. Google - Two graduates of Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend. They were in the process of 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. 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.
2. Yahoo - Yahhoo was the creation of two Stanford Electrical Engineer’s. They were Jerry Yang and David Filo. The two decided on the name 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. 
3. Wozniak - 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)
4. Microsoft - William Henry “Bill” Gates was one of the co-founders of Microsoft who currently has its’ software on over 90% of the computers in the world, today. Microsoft, regardless of their critics accomplish in a few  short years quite an montomenial task. 
5. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman of board, president and the chief executive officer of Amazon.com, a major e-commerce company that sells goods through the Internet. His net worth is currently at $8.2 billion dollars.
6. eBay - Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay, an online auctioning marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. With a net worth of about $7.7 billion dollars, Omidyar and his wife Pam, are one of those entrepreneurs that go beyond doing profits, which is by contributing to non-profits organizations and aiding start-ups.
7. Craigs List - Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur that invented the Craigslist, with over 14.1 million page-views a month, Craigslist.org is one of the most visited website on the Internet.
8. Word Press - If it weren’t for Matt Mullenweg creating WordPress, I would not have been here writing at this blog and you all wouldn’t have been reading this article. At the age of 19, he invented the core of Wordpress, and later on when he turned 24, quit his job at CNET to fully focus on developing WordPress - a blogging platform. 
9. Linux - Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project’s coordinator.
10. TCP/IP Stack - Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet. His influence is felt throughout the Internet, in its protocols, in their documentation, in the DNS names we use and the ‘dot’ we use to separate them, and, in no small way, in the ‘good engineering’ that helped the Internet thrive from its inception in 1969 to today. Jon worked on its development, from its early protocols, to the creation of TCP/IP stack.

Tags: Amazon, Criagslist, eBay, Google, Linux, Microsoft, TCP/Ip, Word Press, Yahoo

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