Most influential people on the web
Recently from a Merinews reported the top ten most influential people on the Internet. From online videos, shopping on the web, blogging, RSS, social networking and web search grew by giant leaps and bounds.
Tim Berners-Lee: Tim Berners-Lee is the man behind the World Wide Web. He originated the idea of sharing information freely via hyperlinks, created HTML (the basic language behind every web page) and came up with the idea of each web page having a unique address, or URL.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Brin and Larry Page are the co-founders of the most popular search engine on the web: Google.
Jeff Bezos: Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com, the largest shopping site on the web today. Amazon changed the way we shop online, making it possible for people all over the world to purchase products they hadn’t been able to ever before.
Jimmy Wales: Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia of knowledge.
Meg Whitman: Under the expert leadership of Meg Whitman, eBay grew from a small online auction site to the largest marketplace in the world of both new and used goods.
Dave Winer: Dave Winer is widely recognised for his work behind the implementation of RSS, a protocol that has revolutionised the way we view content on the web.
Mark Zuckerberg and Tom Anderson: Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook and Tom Anderson, the founder of MySpace, have collectively re-imagined the web as a connected community of people, no matter where we might be located.
Bram Cohen: Bram Cohen created the peer to peer file sharing programme known as BitTorrent.
Brewster Kahle: Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive, a digital repository and archive of the World Wide Web and the knowledge it contains.
Craig Newmark: Craig Newmark is the founder of Craigslist, the largest online classifieds site in the world. People in every country use Craigslist to advertise items for sale, connect with people in the community, or purchase anything from puppies to real estate.
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