Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn created TCP/IP, the communication protocols that allow computers to connect to each other and exchange information over the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and the basics of how information is accessed and shared over the Internet. Ray Tomlinson enabled sending messages between machines in different locations by inventing the use of the "@" symbol in email addresses.

2. Vint Cerf And Bob Kahn - Father of
the Internet
The Father of Internet Vint Cerf, together with
Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP suite of
communication protocols - a language used
by computers to talk to each other in a

3. Tim Berners-Lee - Inventor of WWW.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the
World Wide Web

4. Ray Tomlinson - Father of Email.
Programmer Ray Tomlinson, the Father of Email made it
possible to exchange messages between machines in
diverse locations; between universities, across
continents, and oceans. He came up with the “@”

5. Michael Hart - The
birth of eBooks.
eBooks was considered
world’s first electronic
library that changed the

6. Gary Thuerk - The
first Email spam

7. Scott Fahlman The first emoticon

8. Marc Andreessen - Netscape Navigator

9. Jarkko Oikarinen - Internet Relay
Chat, IRC

10. Robert Tappan Morris - First Worm Virus

11. David Bohnett - Geocities

12. Ward Cunningham The first Wiki
Cunningham named the wiki after the
Hawaiian word for “quick.”

13. Sabeer Bhatia - Hotmail
He got in the news when he sold the free e-mailing
service , Hotmail to Microsoft for $400
million.

14. Matt Drudge - The Drudge Report

15. Larry Page And
Sergey Brin - Google.
(wikipedia)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
changed the way we search and
use the Internet.

16. Bill Gates - Microsoft
Bill Gates founded the software company
called “Micro-Soft”.
a combination of “microcomputer software.”

17. Steve Jobs -
Apple
Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personal
computer led him into revolutionizing the
computer hardware and software
industry.
The Apple founder changed the way we

18. David Filo and Jerry Yang: Yahoo
Yahoo! Everybody knew this name. But it is
an acronym for “Yet another Hierarchical
Officious Oracle”. David Filo and Jerry Yang
developed it as a pastime and they were never
thought that it will become a universal brand

19. Brad Fitzpatrick - LiveJournal
Brad Fitzpatrick created LiveJournal, one of
the earliest blogging platforms.

20. Shawn Fanning - Napster

21. Peter Thiel - Paypal
Peter Thiel cofounded PayPal at age 31 and
sold it to eBay four years later for $1.5 billion.