The document highlights several key individuals who contributed to the development of the internet including Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn who developed TCP/IP, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau who created HTML and the World Wide Web, Robert Metcalfe who developed Ethernet, and Mark Andreessen who created the Mosaic web browser. It also mentions Vic Hayes' contribution to WiFi and notes Albert Gore and John Perry Barlow but does not specify their contributions to internet development.