William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, …

Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …

Kleinrock, Leonard Based on his Ph.D. work at MIT on computer networking, Kleinrock was asked to join ARPA to work on a unified network in response to Sputnik. Kleinrock's work with ARPA led directly to the creation of the ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet), and UCLA, where Kleinrock had been a professor since 1963, was the first node to join the ARPANET. Kleinrock is currently a professor of computer science at UCLA and is chairman and founder of Nomadix.

Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA (back then known as just ARPA), and in October of that year, …

Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software.

William Ford Gibson (born, Conway, South Carolina) is an American-born science fiction author who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, partly due to coining the term "cyberspace" in 1982, and partly because of the success of his first novel, "Neuromancer", which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since its publication in 1984.

Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965. He also is credited with first use of the words "hypermedia", "transclusion", "virtuality", "intertwingularity" and "teledildonics". The main thrust of his work has been to make computers easily accessible to ordinary people.

Lawrence G. Roberts has been described as one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. He was chairman and CTO of Caspian Networks, but left in early 2004. Caspian ceased operation in late 2006. Roberts is now chairman and president of Anagran Inc., which he founded.

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 - June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. After early work in psychoacoustics, he became interested in information technology early in his career. Much like Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider's contribution to the development of the Internet consists of ideas, not inventions.

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a penchant for explorations of society, mathematics, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as "Wired Magazine", and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.

Ed Krol is an important figure in Internet history. He was the network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet" and "The" "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog".

Rick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organised the The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona. In 1992 he started the monthly competition "The Internet Hunt" where questions had to be answered exclusively using sources on the Internet. Utilities of investigation were Usenet, FTP, Gopher and Telnet (NCSA Mosaic, …

Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA.

Douglas Earl Comer (known as Douglas E. Comer or Douglas Comer) is a writer and professor best known for his work in the early development of the Internet.

Samir Arora is the Chairman of Information Capital LLC, a venture capital fund. Information Capital, based in Woodside, California, invests in leading-edge big idea companies in consumer publishing, media & technology that help change the lives of millions of people.

Gaurav Dhillon is the founder and former CEO of Informatica Corporation, worth over a billion dollars, 2006, on the "Nasdaq". Forbes magazine said, in 2001, that Informatica “has become Silicon Valley’s latest darling; the phrase “the next Microsoft” has been also used by Forbes magazine. Dhillon is currently CEO and founder of the online movie site Jaman.

Stacy Horn is an American author, businesswoman and occasional journalist. She grew up on Long Island, New York and received a B.F.A. from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her graduate degree is from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she later taught a course called "Virtual Culture." In 1989, after working in telecommunications, Horn founded Echo, …

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On the first webpages created by Tim Bernes Lee, Carl Barker was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Asperen was "at CERN for a six month period during his degree course at Brunel University, UK. Carl [worked] on the server side, possibly on client authentication."

Marius Nacht is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur. He is one of the founders, director and Senior Vice President of Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd. Nacht has served as a director of Check Point since its inception in 1993. Since 1999 he has served as a Senior Vice President of Check Point and since 2001 he has also served as Vice Chairman of the board of directors.

Michael Silverton, Stanford University alumni, conceived of and sequentially built the world's first 10Mbps, 100Mbps, and 1000Mbps all optical Ethernet To The Home (ETTH) networks in Palo Alto, California in 1999 to 2000; as the result of research and work that first began in 1991 in Phoenix, Arizona. Fiberhood Networks, Inc., a Silicon Valley company championed by Silverton, and co-founded with fellow Stanford alumnis Sinuhe Hardegree and Jonathan Usuka, …

David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956 in Chicago Illinois) is a philanthropist and technology entrepreneur.

Bruce Shoop is a minister, graphic artist, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and campaigner against the US drug policy. In 2006, he founded the Green Earth Ministries, a chapter of the THC Ministry and religion that considers cannabis to be a sacrament. William Bruce Shoop was born on 23 May, 1967 in Miami, Florida. Raised and schooled in metropolitan Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, he graduated from Miami Norland high school in 1985, …

Steve Barnhart is chief executive officer and president of Orbitz Worldwide, a business unit of Travelport. With 20 years experience in finance and consumer brands, Barnhart leads the Orbitz Worldwide global portfolio of online travel brands, including Orbitz, CheapTickets and the Away Network in the Americas, ebookers and Travelbag in Europe, and HotelClub.com and RatesToGo.com in Asia Pacific.

My primary research interest is the history of the Internet as a means of communication and a medium, including archiving the Internet and websites.My other research interests are media theory, the Internet, and the relation between the two.