- Jack Smith
Jack Smith, along with Sabeer Bhatia, founded the web-based free e-mail service Hotmail, in 1995. Before founding Hotmail, where his role was Chief Technology Officer, he worked at FirePower Systems Inc., where he designed integrated circuits for use in high performance PowerPC workstations, and at Apple Computer, where he worked on several of Apple's early PowerBook Computers. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in 1998 for a reported $400 million.
- Asa Dotzler
Asa Dotzler, born in Tennessee on June 5, 1974, is best known for his work as community coordinator for several Mozilla projects. He was an early member of Mozilla’s Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Program, which grew under his leadership from just a few contributors when Dotzler joined the project to tens of thousands of volunteers today. Dotzler is co-founder and community coordinator for the Spread Firefox project, launched in October 2004, …
- Jeremy Jaynes
Jeremy Jaynes (born 1974) was a prolific e-mail spammer, broadcasting junk e-mail from his home in North Carolina, United States. Under a variety of aliases,, Jaynes was accused of utilizing T1 internet connections to send hundreds of thousands of e-mails per day, using e-mail lists later reported stolen from AOL and eBay, amongst others. Spamhaus, a directory of junk e-mailers, estimated that he was the eighth most prolific spammer in the world for the period in question.
- Paul Jacob
Paul Jacob (1960 -) is an activist, organizer, and advocate for legislative term limits, initiative and referendum rights, and limited government in the United States. He writes a weekly column for Townhall.com and his short radio commentary feature, "Common Sense," is syndicated on over 120 radio stations around the U.S. Primarily known as a leader of the term limits movement, Jacob ran U.S. Term Limits, the nation's most active term limits lobby, …
- Akira Lane
Akira Lane is a successful Asian American nude model and actress of Hawaiian and Okinawan heritage. Lane is bilingual and fluent in Japanese and English, and graduated San Diego State University with a B.A. in International Business. She is known as one of the few people that personally interacts with her fans via e-mail and goes to conventions to meet her fans personally, giving her the reputation as one of the most accessible models in her industry.
- David L. Smith
David L. Smith (born c.1968) is the writer of the Melissa worm. In March 1999, the then 31-year-old New Jersey programmer released the Melissa worm in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey. This was accomplished by deliberately posting an infected document to an alt.sex Usenet newsgroup from a stolen AOL account. It is believed that Smith named the virus after a lap-dancer he had known in Florida.
- Sean Parker
Sean Parker (born 3 December, 1979) is an American businessman and entrepreneur. Parker gained early notoriety as a co-founder of Napster Inc. in 1999. An IRC friend of Shawn Fanning, Parker helped convince Fanning to incorporate Napster as a business. He joined Fanning in California and developed the early business strategy of the firm.
- 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, …
- Kibo
Kibo is the nickname, username and e-mail address of James Parry (b. July 13 1967), a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long .signature, and a machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned (to "kiboze"). His exploits have earned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the parody religion kibology, …
- Nathaniel Borenstein
Nathaniel Borenstein (b. September 23, 1957) is one of the original designers of the MIME protocol for sending multimedia Internet electronic mail. Currently Chief Open Standards Strategist and Distinguished Engineer at IBM, Borenstein was founder of NETPOS.COM and First Virtual Holdings, called "the first cyberbank" by the Smithsonian Institution. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and Religious Studies from Grinnell College, …
- Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ansary was born in Afghanistan and lived there until high school, when he won a scholarship to an American boarding school, Colorado Rocky Mountain School.
- Zhu Yu
Zhu Yu (b. 1971) is a performance artist living in Beijing, China. His work deals with subjects of morality. Yu's most famous piece of conceptual art, titled "Eating People," was performed at a Shanghai arts festival in 2000. It consisted of a series of photographs of him cooking and eating what is alleged to be a human fetus. One picture, circulated on the internet via e-mail in 2001, provoked investigations by both the FBI and Scotland Yard.
- Matt Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont is a British novelist and former copywriter. Beaumont made his debut in 2000 with the comic novel, "e. The Novel of Liars, Lunch and Lost Knickers", which consists entirely of e-mails composed by the staff of one office. A recent example of an epistolary novel, it is generally recognized as one of the first e-mail novels. For the BBC, Beaumont created the storyline of the alternate reality game, "Jamie Kane" (2005).
- Philippe Courtot
Philippe Courtot was born on August 26, 1944. He spent his early days in France. He holds a Master's Degree in Physics from the University of Paris. Philippe Courtot moved to the United States of America in 1981 and has been in the Silicon Valley since 1987. Philippe Courtot is currently the chairman and CEO of Qualys Inc., a leading provider of on-demand vulnerability management. Before Qualys, Philippe was the chairman and CEO of Signio. In 2000, VeriSign acquired Signio.
- Helen Dewitt
Helen DeWitt (born 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) is a novelist. DeWitt grew up primarily in South America (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador), as her parents worked in the United States diplomatic service. After a year at Northfield Mount Hermon School and two short periods at Smith College, DeWitt studied classics at the University of Oxford, first at Lady Margaret Hall, and then at Brasenose College for her D.Phil.
- Paul Rhodes
Paul Rhodes is a Canadian political strategist. He was communications director for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 1995, 1999 and 2003 elections, and communications director for Ontario Premier Mike Harris from 1995 to 1997. Rhodes was an architect of the Common Sense Revolution, the policy platform which ushered the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party into government in 1995.
- Mark Bloch
Mark Bloch (born January 23, 1956), also known as Pan, P.A.N., Panman, Panpost and the Post Art Network, is an American multi-media artist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Since 1982 he has lived in New York City. He is a conceptual artist in the tradition of Dada, the Surrealists, Marcel Duchamp, the Fluxus group and Ray Johnson. Bloch has been interested in digital electronics since 1977 when he created his first computer-related artwork.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Mary Manin Morrissey (born 1949) is a New Thought minister from Oregon, U.S.A. She has served as president of the Association for Global New Thought. and in 1995, she hosted an annual congress for the International New Thought Alliance. In 1998, she spoke before the United Nations with Arun Gandhi (grandson of Mahatma Gandhi) regarding the Season for Nonviolence. She has also participated in interfaith dialogues with the Dalai Lama.
- Takeshi Utsumi
Takeshi Utsumi is a dedicated former Fulbright Scholar who has, for some decades, devoted himself to experimenting with and demonstrating the technology that can bring needed learning, health care and perhaps "peace to everyone on our planet." He is the founder and vice president for "Technology and Coordination" of the Global University System, and is the co-editor of a new book about that project, "Global Peace Through The Global University System".
- Bernd Sebastian Kamps
Bernd Sebastian Kamps (born 1954) is a German medical doctor and online medical book publisher. After graduating from the medical school of the University of Cologne, Kamps practiced medicine at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt. Subsequently, Kamps became director of the International Amedeo Literature Service, a medical journal aggregator designed to compile research from notable medical journals and to organize the research by subject, …
- Aaron Karo
Aaron Karo was originally a New York City-based (now residing in Los Angeles) stand-up comedian and author of "Ruminations on College Life" (ISBN 0-7432-3293-3) and "Ruminations on Twenty-Something Life", both of which originated from his e-mail based column "Ruminations". This column started in 1997 when Karo was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Christopher William Smith
Christopher William Smith ("Rizler") (born January 28, 1980) was a prolific e-mail spammer, advertising drugs from his Xpress Pharmacy Direct in Burnsville, Minnesota, United States. He was charged in August 2005 with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, wire fraud, selling misbranded drugs and money laundering. Federal officials added a count of operating a continuing criminal enterprise in a revised indictment filed in May 2006.
- Dimitar Stoyanov
Dimitar Kinov Stoyanov (born 17 May 1983) is a young Bulgarian and EU politician. He was born in Sofia. His father is Kin Stoyanov, a son of the prominent writer and dissident Radoy Ralin, and his mother is journalist Kapka Georgieva. While still a student of Law at Sofia University, Dimitar Stoyanov joined the Ataka far-right party headed by his mother's long-time friend (and husband since the end of 2006) Volen Siderov.
- Dianna Abdala
Dianna Abdala (b. 1981) is a young Boston-area lawyer who received internet notoriety in early 2006 as a result of an acrimonious email exchange with a would-be employer. Abdala graduated from Boston University in 2001 after just three years of study, as she had done at Agawam (Mass.) High School in 1998. She then graduated from Suffolk University School of Law in 2004 and passed the Massachusetts bar exam in 2005. She interviewed with, and was offered a position at, …
- Mike McColgan
Michael "Mike" McColgan is best known as the original lead singer of the Dropkick Murphys and the current lead singer of the Street Dogs. McColgan was born in the Savin Hill area of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and attended catholic school. His interest in music began while he sang in the school's choir. McColgan was a soldier in the first Gulf war before becoming a founding member of the Dropkick Murphys in 1996.
- Nathaniel Heatwole
Nathaniel "Nat" Heatwole (born May 29, 1983) is an American convicted of placing box cutters and other banned items inside two commercial aircraft. Heatwole, then a political science and physics student at Guilford College and a self-proclaimed pacifist, is identified as the person who sent an e-mail on September 15, 2003, to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), reporting "security breaches" at two East-coast airports between February 7 and September 14, …
- Malcolm Azania
Malcolm Azania, also known as Minister Faust (for the literary reference, see Faust), is a Canadian teacher, writer, community activist, radio host and political aspirant. He appeared on the CBC's Disclosure reality tv show "Political Animal" in 2003. He was one of 3 contestants. He appeared along side Bridget Pastoor, who would later become a MLA for the Alberta Liberal Party in Lethbridge East in 2004.
- Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen (b. 25 July 1968) is a programmer living in Norway. He is the author and maintainer of Gnus, an Emacs-based e-mail and news client which he started in 1994. His current project is Gmane, an e-mail to news gateway which allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups.
- Hisayasu Nagata
Hisayasu Nagata is a Japanese politician born in Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture. He graduated from Keio High school in 1988, Tokyo University in 1993, and then entered the Finance Ministry. He took a leave of absence to study for an MBA at UCLA in 1995. He resigned his position in 1999 to run for the Lower House in Chiba Prefecture.
- Rusman Gunawan
Rusman Gunawan also know as "Gun Gun" is an Indonesian terrorist and the younger brother of the Jemaah Islamiah chief of operations Hambali. Born in the West Java town of Cianjur he moved to Pakistan to continue his Islamic studies in the local madrassas. After graduating he travelled to Afghanistan to train at the Al Ghuraba training camp. From 1999 he was in charge of co-ordinating visits from JI Southeast Asia operatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Leora Kornfeld
Leora Kornfeld is a Canadian businessperson and former radio personality. She was best known for hosting "Realtime" on CBC Stereo in the 1990s, which was billed as the first radio program in the world to integrate emerging Internet technologies such as e-mail and IRC into its program format. Leora got her start in radio at CITR-FM, the campus station at the University of British Columbia, where fellow disc jockeys included Terry McBride, …
- Stavros Fasoulas
Stavros Fasoulas is one of the most famous Finnish game programmers in the late 1980s. He is mostly known as the designer and developer of the Commodore 64 games "Sanxion", "Delta" and "Quedex". The games were published by the British publisher Thalamus. "Sanxion" (1986) and "Delta" (1987) were pretty much standard-issue shoot-'em-ups.
- Wolfang Galindo
Wolfang Galindo who works for distributing companies in Colombia and Latin America.
- Christopher Knight
Christopher Michael Knight (born November 9, 1969) is a popular ezine publisher and email deliverability expert known for his weekly newsletter, Ezine-Tips, that was started in 1998. Chris is also the author of the ISP Marketing Survival Guide (published by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-37679-5) and the author of Article Production Strategies (2006).
- Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web
- Yanga R. Fernández
Yanga (Yan) Roland Fernández is a Canadian-American astronomer at the University of Central Florida. Together with Scott S. Sheppard, he co-discovered the Carme group, a group of moons of the planet Jupiter. Born in Mississauga, Ontario, he grew up in New York City, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and went to high school in Ft. Myers, Florida. After undergraduate studies at Caltech, Yan received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999.
- Teodoro Borlongan
Teodoro C. Borlongan (April 15, 1955 - April 11, 2005) was the last president of the once strong Urban Bank and was unofficially known as one of the leading bankers in the Philippines. Borlongan was named one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Men" for domestic banking in 1993. He graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1978. Sometime during the 1980s, he became president of Urban Bank, …
- Paul Rowen
Paul John Rowen (born 1968, Rochdale) is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Rochdale. He was first elected at the 2005 general election. He is currently the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Work and Pensions.
- Fred Lasswell
Fred Lasswell (July 25, 1916 - March 4, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known for his work on the comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith". Born in Kennett, Missouri, he got his start as a sports cartoonist for the "Tampa Daily Times". While playing golf in the area, "Barney Google" creator Billy DeBeck noticed Lasswell's work and hired the 17-year-old as an assistant. After DeBeck's death of cancer in 1942, Lasswell took over the strip.