- Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979. - Steve Linford
Steve Linford is a British anti-spam activist best known for founding The Spamhaus Project. Linford was born in England. His parents moved to Rome where his father ran an industrial platinum factory. After dropping out of photography school, Steve purchased a motor home shipped over from the US, parked it on beaches around the Mediterranean, and made his living writing music and playing guitar in clubs. When artists such as Pink Floyd and Michael Jackson toured Italy, … - Janus Friis
Janus Friis is a Danish entrepreneur best known for co-founding the file-sharing application KaZaA, and the peer-to-peer telephony application Skype. He and his partner Niklas Zennström recently sold Skype to eBay for $2.6bn. They are currently working on Joost - an interactive software for distributing TV shows and other forms of video over the Web. Before embarking on an entrepreneurial career with Zennström, Friis worked at the help desk of CyberCity, … - Howard Carmack
Howard Carmack (also known as the Buffalo Spammer) was the first spammer, i.e. notorious sender of spam e-mails, to be sentenced to a time in jail. He was arrested in May 2003 and first freed for a bail of $20,000. The prosecution succeeded in demonstrating to the jury of a court in the state of New York that he had sent out 825 million spam e-mails via the Internet service provider Earthlink, … - Ross Mayfield
Ross Mayfield is the Chairman, President and co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 4,000 customers and served as CEO from 2002-2007. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures, Intel Capital and Omidyar Network and prominent Silicon Valley angels. - Danny O'Brien
Danny O'Brien is the International Outreach Coordinator for the EFF. He works to help us collaborate with organizations and individuals fighting for liberties across the world. Danny has documented and fought for digital rights in the UK for over a decade, where he also assisted in building tools of open democracy like Fax Your MP . - Pete Ashdown
Peter Lynn "Pete" Ashdown (born January 11 1967) is the founder and CEO of Utah's first independent and oldest Internet service provider, XMission. In 2006 he challenged and lost to incumbent U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, running as the Democratic candidate. - Charles Brewer
Charles Brewer (1959-) is an American entrepreneur. Charles Brewer is the founder of MindSpring Enterprises, an American Internet service provider, and Green Street Properties, a real estate development company. He serves on the board of directors of the Midtown (Atlanta) Alliance, the Atlanta Commerce Club, and the Atlanta Police Foundation. He also serves on the board of councilors of the Carter Center. - Rick Adams
Rick Adams was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP). Rick Adams was responsible for the first widely available Serial Line IP (SLIP) implementation and founding UUNET, thereby making the Internet widely accessible. In 1982 Rick ran the first international UUCP email link at the machine "seismo" (owned by the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia), … - Derek Wyatt
Derek Murray Wyatt (born 4 December 1949) is a British politician, and Labour Member of Parliament for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in Kent, first elected in 1997, having previously been a councillor in the London Borough of Haringey. Wyatt is chairman of the House of Commons all party internet group. He advocates forcing internet service providers (ISPs) through licensing to take steps to block spam before it arrives in inboxes. - Mike McQuary
Mike McQuary is an American entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Brash Music and is a Partner in Ellis, McQuary & Stanley, a merchant bank, both based out of Atlanta, Georgia. He is the former President of EarthLink & MindSpring. His career path has run the range of company experience as he followed nearly a decade of work at corporate giant Mobil Corporation with eight years as an entrepreneur at start up ISP MindSpring Enterprises. - J. D. Frazer
J. D. Frazer (born 1965), pen name Illiad, is the artist and writer of the webcomic "User Friendly". The strip debuted in November, 1997, and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet Service Provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles. - James Seng
Seng Ching Hong (commonly referred to as James Seng) is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. He gave regular speeches at various forums on several Internet issues such as IDN, VoIP, IPv6, spam, OSS and Internet governance issues. - Jim Kimsey
James V. ("Jim") Kimsey (born 1939 in Washington, D.C.) was the co-founder, CEO, and first chairman of internet service provider America Online (AOL). - Khin Nyunt
General Khin Nyunt (born 11 October 1939 in Kyauktan, Yangon Division) is an officer and politician in Myanmar. Khin Nyunt is an ethnic Chinese. He held the office of Chief of Intelligence and was Prime Minister from August 25 2003 until October 18 2004. He is married to Daw Kin Win Shwe, a medical doctor, and father to a daughter, Thin Le Le Win, and 2 sons, Lieutenant Colonel Zaw Naing Oo and Dr. Ye Naing Win, who owns Bagan Cybertech, … - Darren Entwistle
"I am very pleased to be joining the IIT and working with its partners to leverage TELUS' expertise in innovation and business development for this leading organization," said Entwistle. "Over the years, the IIT has become an outstanding centre for sharing knowledge and cooperation at the technological level. - Rop Gonggrijp
Rop Gonggrijp (born February 14th 1968, Amsterdam) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of internet service provider XS4ALL. - Holger Voss
Holger Voss is a German Internet user who was sued in January 2003 for a sarcastic comment pertaining to the September 11, 2001 attacks in an internet discussion forum, a case that attracted nationwide attention in Germany. Voss' comments were originally made on June 21, 2002 during the course of a discussion relating to an article in German net magazine Telepolis; they ended with the statement "If you find sarcasm, please re-use it" ("Wer Sarkasmus findet, … - William W. Fisher
William "Terry" W. Fisher III is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His primary research and teaching areas are intellectual property law and legal history. In his book "Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment" (Stanford University Press 2004), … - Drew Curtis
Drew Curtis (b. February 7, 1973) is the founder and an administrator of Fark. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1995. From 1996 to 2002, he owned and operated DCR.NET, an ISP based in Frankfort, Kentucky. Curtis recently finished his first book, "It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News", which was released in May 2007. He attended the same high school as fellow internet author Tucker Max. - Gisle Hannemyr
Gisle Hannemyr (born July 3 1953) is a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Informatics, University of Oslo. In 1991, he was co-founder of the first commercial internet service provider in Norway, Oslonett, which later, being acquired by Schibsted, became Schibsted Nett ("SN"), and Scandinavia Online ("Sol"). He has later co-founded other Internet-related businesses. Through books, articles and regular columns in the press, … - Vardan Kushnir
Vardan Vardanovich Kushnir (November 22, 1969, to July 24, 2005) was a notorious spammer of Armenian descent who ran the American Language Center and who is believed to have spammed the entire population of Russian-language Internet users with ads for his language courses. Kushnir was brutally murdered in 2005. According to some estimates, his ads reached 25 million users at his peak, between 2003 and 2004. Although only Muscovites were eligible to sign up, … - Jeffrey Carl
Jeffrey Carl is best known as an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Open Source Software (OSS) journalist and commentator, and was one of the first general technology publication writers to provide extensive coverage of OSS. He was most active from 1997-2001 as a columnist for the industry publication "Boardwatch Magazine" and contributor to other ISP publications including "Daemon News", "Web Hosting Magazine", "CLEC Magazine" and others. - Annette Presley
Annette Presley is a New Zealand businesswoman known for creating Slingshot, one of New Zealand's most used internet service providers. Presley has been one of the leading critics of Telecom New Zealand, even offering to do former CEO Theresa Gattung's job. She has also appeared on the New Zealand Dragon's Den. - Dennis Vacco
Dennis Vacco was New York State Attorney General from November 8, 1994 through November 3, 1998. He was defeated for re-election in 1998 by Eliot Spitzer. Mr. Vacco graduated from the University at Buffalo Law School. Vacco brought national attention through a series of prosecutions brought against ISPs for distributing child pornography. The principal defendant, Buffnet, eventually pled guilty to a charge of fourth degree facilitation of a felony and was fined $5,000. - Karl Lehenbauer
Karl Lehenbauer (born April 5, 1958) was the founder of NeoSoft in the early 1990s, which was the first Internet Service Provider in the southern United States as well as the first to offer cable modem service in Houston, Texas, among other technological milestones. NeoSoft was later sold to Internet America in 1998. Lehenbauer also wrote the Internet (socket) capabilities of the Tcl programming language. - Scott Purcell
Scott Purcell was the founder of Epoch Networks, which was the fourth commercial internet backbone ever, and at one time was the largest privately-held internet service provider in the United States. He also served as a Board Member of the Commercial Internet eXchange. In April, 2006, he launched WebBiographies, a social networking service for people interested in genealogy, biography and memoir writing, and building family trees. - Jack Hensley
Jack Hensley was an American engineer from Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, near Atlanta. While working in Iraq he was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists. His colleague, Eugene Armstrong, was beheaded the previous day. Their killers, Tawhid and Jihad, the terrorist group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were demanding the release of Iraqi women in U.S. custody. - Tim Bass
Tim Bass (Timothy James Bass), an Internet security expert, invented Egress Filtering, an Internet security technique, on 21 September 1996, as a response to a Denial-of-service attack against an Internet Service Provider (ISP). He was the subject of a July 1999 article by Frank Vizard in Popular Science Magazine called WAR.COM, where Bass is credited with inventing the first countermeasure against email bombs used by hackers against Langley Air Force Base. - Andrey Korotkov
Andrey Korotkov worked as Deputy Communications and Informatisation Minister in Russia. Currently - High-level advisor to the Chairman of Bank for foreign trade (Vneshtorgbank) In 2003 he briefly attracted worldwide media attention, when he participated in an unusual attack on Russia's most prominent spammer, American Language Center (ALC). Korotkov, like most Russian Internet users, has received spam from ALC many times. - Fred Cherry
Fred Cherry was an American activist for greater rights for johns (clients of prostitutes). He gained some measure of fame as self-styled "elector of homophobia" in his fight against (in his own words) "the Organized Homosexual Conspiracy of America", who he said opposed his own fight to get his freedom to patronize prostitutes recognized as being a matter of civil rights. In 1985, Cherry, and Margo St. James, filed a lawsuit against Ed Koch, then mayor of New York City, … - Amjad Farooq Alvi
Amjad Farooq Alvi along with his brother Basit Farooq Alvi, lived in Lahore, Pakistan, developed the pc virus, (c)Brain, also known as the Pakistani flu. (c)Brain is considered to be the first computer virus for the PC. At the time the brothers were developing medical software. The virus was developed to protect their work from piracy and was supposed to target copyright infringers only. - Elwood Edwards
Elwood Edwards is an American voice over actor. He is best known as the voice of the Internet service provider America Online, which he first recorded in 1989. His greetings include "Welcome," "You've got mail," "You've got pictures," "File's done," and "Goodbye." In 1989, Edwards's wife overheard online service Q-Link CEO Steve Case describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface. In October Edwards's voice premiered on AOL's new program. - Scott Swedorski
Scott Swedorski is the founder of Tucows (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software), a large Internet domain name reseller, and Internet service provider. - Philip Gale
Philip Chandler Gale (1978, Los Angeles, California - March 13, 1998, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a pioneering internet software developer and computer prodigy, and avid musician, born and raised a Scientologist but rejected that upbringing and turned to the Church of the SubGenius. Gale earned roughly a million dollars worth of stock options for his innovative internet service provider (ISP) programs at EarthLink, … - Edgar Danielyan
Edgar Danielyan is a computer security expert and author. He played a key role in establishing the Armenian Internet Company, the first Internet service provider in Armenia and was a manager and co-founder of the Armenia Network Information Centre and the Internet Society of Armenia. He is a founding trustee of the Armenian Genocide Trust of Great Britain and lives in London. - Holly Jones
Holly Jones (September 14, 1992 - May 12, 2003) was a Canadian girl who was kidnapped from her Toronto neighbourhood on May 12, 2003. On the next day, May 13, her body was found in parts inside bags off the shores of Toronto Island. The case was changed from a kidnapping to a murder case. DNA evidence led the police to arrest Michael Briere, a software developer who lived in the neighbourhood and had no previous criminal history. - Basit Farooq Alvi
Basit Farooq Alvi along with his brother Amjad Farooq Alvi, lived in Chahmiran, Lahore, Pakistan, developed the pc virus, (c)Brain, also known as the Pakistani flu. (c)Brain is considered to be the first computer virus for the PC. At the time the brothers were developing medical software. The virus was developed to protect their work from piracy and was supposed to target copyright infringers only. - James Edward Austin
James Edward Austin is an Australian businessman who resides on the Gold Coast in Australia. He is known as the founder and former Managing Director of DART Internet, which was part of a merger involving Direct Corporation and subsequently sold to Hotkey Internet Services. Austin's current businesses include BIT.net, a retail internet service provider and IP Networks, a wholesale internet provider both of which were founded in 2003. - Gregory C. Carr
Gregory C. Carr is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He and Scott Jones founded Boston Technology, the first firm to sell voice mail to telephone companies. At one point, they owned Prodigy, one of the first big Internet service providers (ISVs). Carr was born in Idaho Falls and went to Utah State University as an undergraduate, majoring in history.
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