- Jason Calacanis
Jason McCabe Calacanis is CEO and co-founder of Weblogs Inc., a network of close to 100 widely read blogs including Engadget, Joystiq, Luxist, Gadling and Blogging Baby. Weblogs, Inc. was founded in January of 2004 and spurred the growth of blogs. The company a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL in November of 2005. Calacanis, who was appointed a senior vice president of the AOL, maintains editorial supervision of Weblogs.
- Marc Andreessen
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.
- Eric Meyer
Eric A. Meyer is a prominent American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a technique for managing how HTML is displayed. Meyer has written a number of books and articles on CSS and given many presentations promoting its use. Meyer graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1992 with a B.A. in History, and minors in artificial intelligence, astronomy, …
- Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.
- Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.
- Tristan Nitot
Tristan Nitot (born on 19 october 1966, French) is the president of Mozilla Europe.
- Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
- John Doerr
L. John Doerr (born June 29, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a successful venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. Doerr obtained a Bachelor of Science and master's degree in electrical engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University in 1976. Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.
- Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born in Mexico City and studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) but never received a degree. He came from a family of scientists in which his father was a physicist and his mother a biologist. He started writing free software in 1992.
- Daniel Glazman
Daniel Glazman is a computer programmer, best known for his work on Mozilla's Editor and Composer components and Nvu, a standalone version of the Mozilla Composer, created for Linspire Corporation. He lives in France. He studied at École Polytechnique, graduating in 1989, and Sup'Télécom Paris, graduating in 1991. He started work at Grif SA, a software company specialising in SGML editors.
- Jamie Zawinski
Jamie W. Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a computer programmer responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early versions of the proprietary Netscape Navigator web browser. He still actively maintains the XScreenSaver project, used by most open source Unix-like operating systems for screenblanking.
- Ben Goodger
Ben Goodger (born in London, England) is a former employee of Netscape Communications Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation and lead developer of the Firefox web browser. Goodger grew up in Auckland, New Zealand, and graduated from the University of Auckland in 2003 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He now lives in Mountain View, California and is currently working for Google Inc.
- Danny Goodman
Danny Goodman is a computer programmer, technology consultant, and a well known award-winning author of over three dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on computer-related topics. He is best known as the author of "The Complete Hypercard Handbook" (1987, Bantam Books, 650,000 copies in print), "The JavaScript Bible" (1996, IDG Books, 500,000 copies in print), and "Dynamic HTML" (1998, O'Reilly & Associates, 100,000 copies in print).
- Rich Skrenta
Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is considered the first computer virus to be found "in the wild." Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University. Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix.
- Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit (b. January 23) is an executive at Yahoo! Personals, a technology and media consultant based in Palo Alto, California and a former vice president of Netscape and America Online. As an executive, Mernit launched several corporate media sites since introducing Scholastic Press on America Online in 1992. She developed the children's educational site Yuckiest Site on the Internet with Jeff Jarvis and served as the editor of New Jersey Online.
- Tim Howes
Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for accessing directory servers. The main purpose was to handle situations that the X.500 protocol suite could not address. X.500 directories list network resources to make finding them and using them easier for network administrators and users. Unfortunately, accessing X.500 records has required a full-blown X.500 server; there was no such thing as an X.500 client.
- Ram Shriram
Ram Shriram served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO. Ram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Ram was president. While at Amazon, Ram helped grow the customer base during its early high growth phase in 1998/1999. Before Junglee and Amazon, Ram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue.
- Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet.
- Lou Montulli
Louis J. Montulli II (best known as Lou Montulli) is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 he wrote a text web browser called Lynx while he was at the University of Kansas. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today. In 1994 he became a founding engineer of Netscape Communications and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser.
- Eric Bina
Eric J. Bina (born October 1964) is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bina attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, …
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- Eric Hahn
Eric Hahn is an American entrepreneur who started Collabra Software in 1992. Collabra was an early e-mail-based groupware company. Netscape acquired Collabra in 1995. In 1997 Eric became Netscape's CTO. According to SEC filings Hahn netted approximately $29 million from sales in Netscape stock. Hahn is also the creator of Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004. Mr. Hahn currently lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife and two sons, …
- Joe Hewitt
Joe Hewitt is a software programmer who is best known for work in creating Firefox and other tools like FireBug and DOM Inspector. Early and while still in high school he created the website Feff World with Douglas Palermo. From 1995 through 1999 was a DHTML-obsessed web developer. Those of you who were around in 1999 might remember the short-lived SWAT library.
- James H. Clark
Dr. James H. Clark (born 1944) is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and Healtheon. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for fast rendering of computer images. He is also a devoted sailor and the owner of several high-tech sailboats that he has helped to design.
- Steven McGeady
Steven McGeady is a former Intel executive best known as a witness in the Microsoft Antitrust Trial. His notes contained colorful quotes by Microsoft executives threatening to "cut off Netscape's air supply" and Bill Gates' guess that "this anti-trust thing will blow over". McGeady left Intel in 2000. He is a member of the Reed College Board of Trustees and the PNCA Board of Governors, and lives in Portland, OR.
- Gene Kan
Gene Kan (1976 - 2002) was a peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer who was among the first programmers to produce an open-source version of the file-sharing application that implemented the Gnutella protocol. Kan worked together with Spencer Kimball on the program called "gnubile" licensed under the GPL. Kan graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- Rands
Rands is a grey-styled alien character in the webcomic Jerkcity. He represents the real-life Michael Lopp, internet comic author and software engineering manager, who has been an active member of the blogosphere since 1996. He helped develop the first version of the Netscape web browser in 1994.
- Michael Toy
Michael Toy is a computer programmer. He was one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling computer game Rogue. He later became an employee of SGI and followed its founder Jim Clark when he left to form Netscape. Following his time there, Toy joined Mitch Kapor's OSAF organization in 2003, becoming the first software development manager for the Chandler project.
- Steve Pariso
Steve Pariso began programming (computers) at age 11. His early (university) work was shown at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Art Directors Club in New York. The software he designed is distributed internationally. At 19, Pariso worked as a designer and assistant to Lou Dorfsman (the creative luminary and forefather of CBS ).
- Bill Hambrecht
Bill Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of W.R. Hambrecht & Co. which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their IPO in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers. He is credited with popularizing this "open IPO" model, using Dutch auctions to allow anyone, not just investing insiders, to buy stock in an IPO, …
- Jon Mittelhauser
- Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner (May 12, 1923 - 20 November 2003) was one of the original founders of Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm which later became Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. The company was an early investor in more than 300 information technology and biotech firms, including Amazon.com, AOL, Brio Technology, Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Genentech, Google, Hybritech, Intuit, Lotus Development, LSI Logic, Macromedia, Netscape, Quantum, Segway, …
- John Arrillaga
John Arrillaga is a wealthy American businessman who made his money through real estate. He is one of the most prominent landowners in Silicon Valley. In the 1960s Arrillaga and business partner Richard Peery bought California farmland and converted it into office space. They became two of Silicon Valley's biggest commercial landlords with more than 12 million square feet. He attended Stanford University on a basketball scholarship, …
- Luke Nosek
Luke Nosek is an American entrepreneur. With Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, Nosek co-founded PayPal and is its former Vice President of Marketing and Strategy. Prior to PayPal, Luke was an evangelist at Netscape. During college, Luke was a partner at SponsorNet New Media. Luke received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
- Robert McCool
Robert M. McCool (born 1973), more commonly known as Rob McCool, is a software developer and architect. McCool was the author of the original NCSA HTTPd web server, later known as the Apache HTTP Server, and to this day httpd.conf files as distributed contain comments signed with his name. He wrote the first version while he was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was working with the original NCSA Mosaic team.
- Rosanne Siino
Rosanne Siino is the retired former Vice President of Communications for Netscape (Communications Corporation). Siino is responsible for crafting the 1990s message that "the web is for everyone", as well as making the pivotal decision turn Marc Andreessen in to a "rock star," and creating the publicity strategy which landed Andreessen, barefoot, on the cover of Time Magazine. She spent 16 years in corporate communications, 13 of which were in high-tech public relations.
- Johnny Stenbäck
Johnny Stenbäck is a Finnish software developer mostly known for his work on the Mozilla browser. Johnny was one of the first developers outside of Netscape to get involved with the Mozilla source released by Netscape in March 1998. He started working on the source code soon after the release, then working for the Finnish software company Citec. (Citec created DocZilla, a Mozilla-based SGML browser.) In 2000 he was hired by Netscape and moved to California.
- Jonathan Abrams
I'm a Carleton University engineering student majoring in Computer Systems. I want to be succesful just like my hero Jonathan Abrams (the founder of this site). I did a co-op term at Nortel Networks in my hometown of Nepean (a suburb of Ottawa), just like he did!
- Peter Lester
Peter Lester is Vice President Strategic Partnerships for Plaxo. He is responsible for forging strategic partnerships and alliances to drive Plaxo’s growth. Previously, Peter was Senior Director of World Wide OEM Sales at Netscape. He has held a variety of management positions at leading technology companies including Digital, E.piphany, Pacific Bell, SGI, and Totality. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Jonathan Abrams
Jonathan Abrams is the founder of the social networking website Friendster. Venture capital investors Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Benchmark Capital replaced him as CEO of the company with Scott Sassa in June 2004. Abrams remains the chairman of Friendster. Jonathan Abrams is the founder, CEO, and Junior Computer Programmer at Socializr, an online service for sharing event and party information with your friends.