Ward Christensen

Ward Christensen

male
Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, was the founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first Bulletin board system ever brought online. It...
Tom Jennings

Tom Jennings

male, 54 years old
Tom Jennings (born 1955 as Thomas Daniel Jennings in Boston, Massachusetts) is the creator of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system...
Jarkko Oikarinen

Jarkko Oikarinen

male, 42 years old
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August, 1967), known on IRC as WiZ, was the developer of the first Internet chat network, called IRC, short for Internet...
Rad Man

Rad Man

male
Christian Wirth, better known by the pseudonym RaD Man, is a computer artist and historian. He works in the field of ANSI art, a method of creating...

Wayne Bell

male
Wayne Bell was the creator of the WWIV BBS system. The First WWIV BBS went online in St. Louis, MO in December of 1984. His own BBS came to be...
Todd Cochrane

Todd Cochrane

male, 45 years old (Honolulu, Hawaii, United States)
Todd Cochrane (born June, 1964) is a technology writer and commentator. In 1988, Cochrane started a bulletin board system. In 1995, he moved his...
Jason Scott Sadofsky

Jason Scott Sadofsky

male, 39 years old
Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13 1970 in Hopewell Junction, New York), more commonly known as Jason Scott, (also known by the pseudonyms...
Linda Thompson

Linda Thompson

female
Linda Thompson is an American attorney, filmmaker, and the founder of the American Justice Federation. In 1993, she quite her job as a lawyer in...

William von Meister

male, deceased (1995)
William F. von Meister (1941/1942-May 18, 1995) was an American entrepreneur who founded and participated in a number of startup ventures in the...
Pablo Kleinman

Pablo Kleinman

male, 38 years old
Pablo Kleinman (born 1971) is an American journalist and entrepreneur, pioneer of the development of online services in Latin America. He graduated...