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Who Made the Internet
Meet the people who turned the Internet from a research dream into the global telecom platform we use today.
Abhay Bhushan
Adrian Stokes
Airbnb
Alan Emtage
Alan Kay
Alex McKenzie
Alibaba
Alphabetical Order
Andrew Hinchley
Andy van Dam
AOL
Arthur Secret
Barry Leiner
Bebo White
Ben Segal
Bernd Pollermann
Bert Bos
Bill Joy
Brendan Eich
Brewster Kahle
Brian Behlendorf
Brian Carpenter
Brian Chesky/Joe Gebbia/Nathan Blecharczyk
Brian Reid
Carl Malamud
Carl Sunshine
Carl Sunshine, Yogen Dalal, Richard Karp, Pål Spilling
CERN
Chad Hurley/Steve Chen/Jawed Karim
Charley Kline and Bill Duvall
Chris Lilley
Christian Huitema
Christopher Strachey
Chronological Order
Claude Shannon
Cliff Lynch
Craig Partridge
Dag Belsnes
Dai Davies
Dan Connolly
Dan Kaminsky
Daniel Ek/Martin Lorentzon
Daniel Karrenberg
Daniel Lynch
Danny Cohen
Darryl Rubin
Dave Raggett
Dave Walden
David Boggs
David Clark
David Crocker
David D. Clark
David Farber
David Mills
David Reed
Dennis Jennings
Digital Island
Don Cone
Donald Davies
Dong Liu
Doug Brotz & Ed Taft
Douglas Comer
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Parkhill
Douglas Van Houweling
eBay
Elise Gerich
Elizabeth Feinler
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin
Eric Allman
Eric Bina
Erik Huizer
Etsy
Facebook
Fernando Corbató
Flickr
Frank Deignan
Frank Heart
Friendster
GeoCities
George Varghese
Gérard Le Lann
Gihan Dias
Glenn Ricart
Guido van Rossum
Håkon Wium Lie
Hans-Werner Braun
Henning Schulzrinne
Hotmail
Howard Frank
Hubert Zimmermann
ICQ
IETF
Ivan Sutherland
Jack Dorsey/Biz Stone/Noah Glass/Evan Williams
Jack Ma
James Mathis
JCR Licklider
Jean-François Groff
Jeff Bezos
Jim Ellis
Jim McClurg
John Giannandrea
John Klensin
John McCarthy
John Quarterman
John Romkey
John Shoch
John Warnock & Charles Geschke
Jon Postel
Jonathan Abrams
Joyce K. Reynolds
Judy Estrin
Karlheinz Brandenburg
Kees Neggers
Keith Moore
Kilnam Chon
Kirk Lougheed
Klara Nahrstedt
Kuninobu Tanno
Kunio Goto
Larry Landweber
Larry Masinter
Larry Page
Larry Smarr
Larry Wall
Lawrence Roberts
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Kleinrock
LinkedIn
Linus Torvalds
Lixia Zhang
Lou Montulli
Louis Pouzin
Marc Andreessen
Mark McCahill
Mark Nichols
Mark Zuckerberg
Marshall Rose
Martin Schoffstall
Martine Galland
Masataka Ohta
Michael Dertouzos
Michael Roberts
Mike Cisco
Mike Muuss
Mike Padlipsky
MIT
Most Transformative Debate
Nicholas Negroponte
Nicola Pellow
Noel Chiappa
Norbert Wiener
NORDUnet Pioneers
Norman Abramson
Pål Spilling
Patrik Fältström
Paul Baran
Paul Kunz
Paul Mockapetris
Paul Vixie
Pei-yuan Wei
Peter Higginson
Peter Kirstein
Phil Karn
Philip Hallam-Baker
Philip Zimmermann
Pierre Omidyar
Radia Perlman
Ram Mohan
Randy Bush
Randy Terbush
Rasmus Lerdorf
Ray Tomlinson
Reid Hoffman
Rémi Després
Richard Adams
Richard Adams
Richard Karp
Rob McCool & NCSA
Robert Braden
Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau
Robert Gurwitz
Robert Kahn
Robert Metcalfe
Robert Taylor
Robert Thau
Robert Thua
Roger Scantlebury
Rohit Khare
Ronald Crane
Roy Fielding
Sally Floyd
Sandy Lerner
Scott Bradner
Sergey Brin
Severo Ornstein
SGML Contributors
Shopify
Spotify
Stanford University
Stephen Kent
Stephen Wolff
Steve Bellovin
Steve Crocker
Steve Daniel
Steve Deering
Steve Huter
Steve Wolff
Stewart Butterfield/Caterina Fake
Susan Estrada
Taher ElGamal
Ted Nelson
Thomas Merrill
Thomas Truscott
Tim Berners-Lee
Timeline Matrix
Tom Jennings
Tom Truscott, Jim Ellis, Steve Bellovin, and Steve Daniel
Tony Bates
Twitter
University College London
University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Southern California
Van Jacobson
Vannevar Bush
Vint Cerf
Virginia (Ginny) Strazisar Travers
W3C
Ward Christensen
Ward Cunningham
Wesley Clark
Who Made the Internet
Will Crowther
William Plummer
William Schrader
Xerox-PARC
Yahoo!
Yakov Rekhter
Yngvar G. Lundh
Yngvar Lundh
Yogen Dalal
YouTube
David Clark: under development