The true era of the World Wide Web
The 1990s were characterized by advances in the digital world and groundbreaking developments in Internet technology. This period also saw the emergence of future digital giants that shaped the online world as we know it today, including eBay, Amazon, PayPal and Google.
1990
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) was founded by Karen Banks and her staff. This non-profit organization was a network of global experts whose goal was to create and maintain a free and transparent Internet network. The entire society should benefit from this technology and not just large companies.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
In 1990, Dr. Stephen Kent, interested in open networks and their security. Until 1999, he worked to secure these networks and perfect their protection methods for safer use.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
This year is also the beginning of Internet development in Latin America. From 1990 to 1999, Ida Holz led a group of computer scientists and experts on the path to developing various computer networks throughout Latin America.
Source: Lacnic
The Academic Internet Network of Sri Lanka was deployed. The LEARN network was founded and managed by Gihan Dias.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
Linux was created by Linus Torvalds. The concept of open source software is brought into the mainstream and from then on exists as part of the idea of the free Internet.
Source: Linfo
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded by John Perry Barlow and his associates. The aim of this organization is to provide legal support to technologies and individuals in the event of legal abuses related to the new technologies that are being developed.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
1990 is the year the world saw the first version of Photoshop. It was revolutionary photo editing software the likes of which no one had ever seen before. John and Thomas Knoll are the two brothers behind Photoshop. Thirty years later, Photoshop is still the most popular image editing program.
Source: PopularMechanics.com
People Karen Banks – Date of birth unknown. This British networking pioneer worked at ISP GreenNet, where she led the GnFido gateway. She also founded the APC and the WNSP (Women’s Networking Support Program). This organization was the first to provide web access to United Nations delegates. Source: Wikipedia Stephen Kent – born 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This computer scientist is best known for his work on network security. Kent worked at BBN Technologies, where he was the first chief scientist to develop security technologies. He developed many Internet security standards. Source: Wikipedia Ida Holz – born 1935 in Montevideo, Uruguay. She was a computer researcher, scientist, engineer and professor. She was one of the Internet pioneers in Latin America and helped create the Internet in her country in the early 1990s. She then helped connect the entire continent through various projects. Source: Ida Holz Gihan Dias – Date of birth unknown. A computer scientist and engineer working at the University of Moratuwa. A pioneer of the Internet in Sri Lanka. He helped develop and lead the Lanka Education and Research Network. Source: Wikipedia Linus Torvalds – born 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. One of the most influential software developers to develop Linux operating systems. This is also the kernel for Chrome OS and Android. He also created Git and Subsurface. Torvalds is one of the biggest protagonists of the open source internet and open source software. Source: Wikipedia John Perry Barlow – born 1947 in Cora, Wyoming. Although he had no technical knowledge of computers or the Internet, he was instrumental in their development. He was a libertarian and worked at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He died in 2018. Source: Wikipedia Thomas Knoll – born 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This software developer is best known for developing Photoshop. He began developing various image processing techniques in 1988. He showed these core routines to his brother and together they worked on developing Photoshop for Adobe Systems. Source: Wikipedia John Knoll – born 1962 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Knoll was chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic and visual effects supervisor. In addition to creating Photoshop with his brother Thomas, he also worked on the special effects for the original Star Wars trilogy. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies |
The World Wide Web goes public
1991
The year marks an important milestone in the history of the Internet. The World Wide Web (WWW) went public. On August 6thThIn 1991, the world saw the launch of the first website. It was created by Tim Berners Lee, who was working at CERN at the time.
Symbolically, the site was all about the WWW project and how it could change the world. Lee didn’t want to patent his work – he wanted to share this technology with the world.
Source: The next web
At the same time, Internet technology was integrated into EuropaNet, the backbone of the European Internet. This network would then use TCP/IP. This project was created by Dai Davies.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
The development of the Internet in the Netherlands had begun. Kees Neggers began his work by founding the first Internet provider in Europe.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
The Pretty Good Privacy software was developed by Philip Zimmermann. This email encryption software suite has been made available to the public for free. Although it was originally developed for human rights organizations and individuals, PGP reaches the public and becomes the most popular email encryption tool.
Source: Springer link
The Gore Act was introduced by Al Gore in 1991. Also known as the High-Performance Computing and Communications Act, aimed at creating and managing the National Research and Education Network and high-performance computing in general. The Gore Act allocated a total of $600 million for this purpose and also led to the creation of the Information Superhighway.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
People Dai Davies – Date of birth unknown. A British Internet pioneer who upgraded EuropaNet with Internet technology. In addition to his work in establishing the pan-European research network, he was instrumental in the development of new communication and data transmission systems that improved the speed of data transmission. Source: Internet Hall of Fame Kees Neggers – born 1947 in Breda, Netherlands. His work in developing and connecting research and educational networks internationally and in the Netherlands was instrumental in the development of the European Internet. Neggers was also director of EARN in the Netherlands. Source: Wikipedia Philip Zimmerman – born 1954 in Camden, New Jersey. A well-known professor, cryptographer and computer scientist. He is best known as the developer of Pretty Good Privacy software, the most popular email encryption system. He also worked on the development of the Zfone and ZRTP encryption protocols. Source: Wikipedia Al Gore – born 1948 in Washington, DC He is a well-known politician who served as a state senator and vice president of the United States and was a member of the House of Representatives. After reading the report by Leonard Kleinrock, one of the co-founders of ARPANET, Gore began drafting his High Performance Computing Act, which passed in 1991 and secured an allocation of $600 million for the development of Internet technologies. Source: Wikipedia Linus Torvalds – born 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. One of the most influential software developers to develop Linux operating systems. This is also the kernel for Chrome OS and Android. He also created Git and Subsurface. Torvalds is one of the biggest protagonists of the open source internet and open source software. Source: Wikipedia John Perry Barlow – born 1947 in Cora, Wyoming. Although he had no technical knowledge of computers or the Internet, he was instrumental in their development. He is a libertarian and worked at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He died in 2018. Source: Wikipedia Thomas Knoll – born 1960 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This software developer is best known for developing Photoshop. He began developing various image processing techniques in 1988. He showed these core routines to his brother and together they worked on developing Photoshop for Adobe Systems. Source: Wikipedia John Knoll – born 1962 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Knoll is chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic and visual effects supervisor. In addition to creating Photoshop with his brother Thomas, he also worked on the special effects of the original Star Wars trilogy. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies statistics |
1992
The Internet Society was founded by Robert Khan and Vint Cerf. At the same time, the number of Internet hosts grew to over a million.
source: Internet Hall of Fame
Tracy LaQuey’s “First Layman Guide to the Internet” has finally been published. It quickly became a success and was translated into eight different languages around the world.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
Ermanno Pietrosemoli started his project to provide technical education via the Internet in many different countries in Africa and Latin America.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
The Internet was founded by Dr. Harusha Ishida introduced in Japan. He explains the full potential of online work and introduces the Japanese to UNIX computing.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
George Sadowsky launched an educational initiative to train people from over 100 countries around the world in Internet governance, management, operations and technologies. By the end of this initiative, more than 1,500 certified Internet teachers would begin sharing their knowledge of the Internet in their countries. This initiative contributed significantly to the global spread of the Internet.
Source: Eyerys
People Ermanno Pietrosemoli – Date of birth unknown. Currently working as a researcher at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. Ermann has been spreading the Internet since its beginnings. He helped introduce low-cost technical solutions and wireless communications in countries such as the USA, Venezuela, Peru, Morocco, Mexico, Italy, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina and so on. Source: IEEE.org Haruhisa Ishida – born 1936 in Taiwan. Ishida studied at the University of Tokyo and knew how important the TCP/IP protocols were since the beginning of the Internet. He brought the Internet to Japan, worked on Internet security measures and protocols, and introduced UNIX computing to Japan. Ishida died in 2009. Source: Internet Hall of Fame George Sadowsky – born 1936 in Novocherkassk, USSR. He is one of the most successful global internet promoters. He worked to bring the Internet to developing countries by helping to legislate, making this technology more affordable, and helping create a plan to connect these countries. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies statistics |
1993
The Mosaic Browser was released by the NCSA. The Mosaic Browser is created by Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen at NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications). This was the first commercially successful web browser, popularizing the World Wide Web and making it available to the public.
Source: Wikipedia
Nabil Bukhalid assembled a team of Internet experts who built Lebanon’s domain registry and brought the Internet to the country. The American University of Beirut team has been instrumental in the development of the Internet in this country.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
John Cioffi develops Digital Subscriber Line Technology (DSL). His Discrete Multitone version of DSL became an instant success and was adopted as a standard in the United States. For this reason, Cioffi was named the “Father of DSL.”
Source: ETHW
The first newspaper ever appears online – “The Tech”. These were campus newspapers at MIT, and this was the first complete newspaper server ever to store all published editions.
Source: Wikipedia
People Marc Andreessen – born 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. This well-known software developer and entrepreneur is one of the developers of the web browser “Mosaic”. He also co-founded Netscape, Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware and Ning and is also on the board of Facebook. Source: Wikipedia Eric Bina – born 1964 in Champaign, Illinois. Together with Marc Andreessen, he was one of the co-founders of Netscape and Mosaic, the first commercially used web browser. He also worked for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Source: Wikipedia Nabil Bukhalid – Date of birth unknown. An internet pioneer from Lebanon. He was instrumental in the development and management of the Internet networks throughout Lebanon. He created the first Lebanese hub and domain registry in the country. He also worked as a registrar and administrator for the Lebanese registry. Source: World Economic Forum John Cioffi – born 1956 in Champaign, Illinois. He is a well-known inventor and electrical engineer. Cioffi is the father of DSL, having created the first digital subscriber line. He made it applicable and practical. Cioffi also authored numerous publications on this technology and created various patents. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies Mosaic Browser – the first commercial web browser used by the public. It was crucial in popularizing the Internet because it contained graphics and text. It could support multiple internet protocols. Developed at NCSA in 1993, it was the first graphical browser. Source: Wikipedia DSL technology – Digital Subscriber Loop or Digital Subscriber Line includes many different technologies designed to support the transmission of data over telephone lines. The most commonly used type of DSL for Internet use is ADSL or Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. The consumer level DSL bitrate is typically between 256 Kbit/s and 100 Mbit/s. Source: Wikipedia The tech-first web newspaper – one of the first online publishers ever. Tech started on the World Wide Web in 1993 and all editions published online are available on the website. Source: Wikipedia statistics |
1994
Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were graduate students in electrical engineering. The two founded the company in a small trailer and wanted to create a catalog of all the interesting sites.
This little idea took her company far when Microsoft launched a $44.6 billion takeover bid in 2008. The company was initially called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” but was quickly renamed Yahoo.
Source: Wikipedia
China began working on its own internet backbone. More specifically, Jianping Wu was the leader of the project and the lead developer of CERNET. In just a short time, CERNET developed into the largest Chinese network. Initially it was an academic network, but later it was also used for the Internet.
Source: Xinhuanet
At the same time, Qihen Hu brought the Chinese delegation to the National Science Foundation in the United States to discuss the connection between the two countries. As a result of these discussions, the first TCP/IP connection was established in China.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
The very first Request For Comments release was published by Erik Huizer. It introduced the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), its working groups and standard processes.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
Marc Andreessen challenged his company to find a way to secure all sensitive data transmitted online. The answer was a security encryption called Secure Socket Layer or SSL. This security encryption is still an Internet standard.
Source: Eyerys
The first webcam was developed in the same year. It was named “Connectix QuickCam” and cost around $99. Some of the first models could only capture images in gray at a resolution of 320 x 240 and could only be used on Mac computers.
However, this didn’t stop inventive computer scientists from using this webcam with the CU-SeeMe conferencing software and the Internet to video chat online.
Source: PopularMechanics.com
In the same year, Marc Andreessen also founded the company Netscape. The company immediately began work on a web browser of the same name. Many credit Netscape for starting the .Com revolution with its easy-to-use browser.
Netscape also contributed significantly to the popularity of the Internet because many people did not understand what it was about.
Source: PopularMechanics.com
People David Filo – born 1966 in Wisconsin, USA. A well-known computer technology entrepreneur who co-founded Yahoo. He created the Filo server program, which dynamically displayed various web pages. Source: Wikipedia Jerry Yang – born 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a computer programmer, entrepreneur and investor. He is a co-founder of AME Cloud Ventures and Yahoo and was a major shareholder in Alibaba. Yang was also CEO of Yahoo until 2007. Source: Wikipedia Jianping Wu – born 1953 in Taiyuan, China. This professor and computer scientist was instrumental in the development of the China Education and Research Network, also known as CERNET. He served as director and technical board member of CERNET and was also vice president of the China Internet Association. Source: Wikipedia Erik Huizer – Date of birth unknown. A distinguished member of ICANN with contributions to the Internet, digital technologies, media and ICT. He was also CTO of SURFnet and a professor at Utrecht University. Huizer also wrote the first publication requesting comment. Source: Wikipedia Marc Andreessen – born 1971 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. This well-known software developer and entrepreneur is one of the developers of the Mosaic web browser. He also co-founded Netscape, Andreessen Horowitz, Opsware and Ning and is also on the board of Facebook. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies statistics |
1995
Together with his team, Karlheinz Brandenburg created a file extension for the MP3 audio format.
The Internet was commercialized when Amazon came online in 1995, a year after its founding. Many people believe that Amazon is the most successful story of the early commercial Internet because it was one of the few companies of the time to survive the “dot-com bubble.”
The company had to lay off most of its employees and lost around $1.4 billion in just 12 months. Despite all this, Jeff Bezos (founder) managed to restructure Amazon and turn it into one of the leading e-commerce giants.
Source: Cnet
This is the same year eBay was founded. However, initially it was called AuctionWeb. It was created by Pierre Omidyar, whose goal was to create an online marketplace that would provide equal opportunities for everyone. The website is based on trust between users and values honesty and fair trade.
Source: Cnet
LiveScript is first launched with Netscape Navigator 2.0. This may not seem like an important moment, but LiveScript is the precursor to JavaScript. In December 1995, Brendan Eich renamed it JavaScript after working with Sun Microsystems. Interactivity on the web was only possible with the introduction of JavaScript.
Source: Cnet
Apache servers were released for the first time. In a short time, these servers will become standard on the Internet and everyone will use them. To date, around half of online sites run on Apache servers. These servers were completely free, open source solutions developed by Rob McCool. The Apache servers were essential to the growth of the web in the 90s and early 2000s.
Source: Britannica
1995 was also the year in which the first internet radio was created. Norman Hajjar founded Radio HK, a 100% internet radio station that “streamed” music from various bands that were not yet signed to a record label. This radio station was able to reach over 100,000 people in many different countries around the world. It also had the ASCAP trial license and was a groundbreaking internet radio that opened the door for many others.
Source: Cnet
People Karlheinz Brandenburg – born 1954 in Erlangen, Germany. The mathematician and engineer developed the MP3 format together with Harald Popp, Bernhard Grill, Ernst Eberlein and other employees. He also contributed to psychoacoustics, audio coding and perceptual measurements. Source: Wikipedia Jeff Bezos – born 1964 in Albuquerque, USA. He is a well-known businessman, investor and billionaire. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, which is what he is best known for. He was also president and CEO of this e-commerce giant. Bezos has been considered the richest man in the world since 2017. Source: Wikipedia Pierre Omidyar – born 1967 in Paris, France. Omidyar studied at Berkeley, where he received his engineering degree. Well-known philanthropist and entrepreneur Omidyar founded eBay in 1994 and served as chairman until 2015. He also founded the “Omidyar Network” to expand his philanthropic work and worked as an online journalist in 2010. Source: Wikipedia Brendan Oak – born 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eich is best known as the inventor of the JavaScript language and as one of the co-founders of the Mozilla Corporation. He also worked as CEO and CTO of Mozilla Corporation. He also founded the company Brave Software, of which he is the CEO. Source: Wikipedia Rob McCool – born in 1973 in the United States. Robert Martin McCool was the author of the first NCSA HTTPd server, popularly called Apache Server. He created this server software while working on the Mosaic team founded by NCSA. McCool also worked for Netscape, Yahoo!, Google, Stanford University and so on. Source: Wikipedia Norman Hajjar – Date of birth unknown. He was an electrical engineer and broadcast radio stations over the Internet. With his company Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab, he successfully broadcast a fully Internet-based radio signal in 1995. Source: Wikiwand Technologies Important statistics |
1996
Basic Voice over the Internet protocols were developed by Dr. Henning Schulzrinne developed. These protocols enable VoIP.
VocalTec developed the “Internet Phone”. It was the first commercially available VoIP software that could be used on personal computers. This was almost a decade before Skype came out. Even though dial-up modems were used back then, the Internet Phone could handle packet loss and slow Internet. It showed the potential of VoIP technology and how it could be used in the future.
Source: Cnet
In 1995, Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia began working on Hotmail, the first web-based email service. It launched a year later and was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for $400 million. This was an important event for Internet communications because it showed that email could be used outside of Internet service providers. Simply put, anyone on the Internet could use email, no matter where they were.
Source: Cnet
A computer drawing software called SmartSketch was developed in 1995 by a company called FutureSplash. The company was acquired by Macromedia and renamed the software FutureSplash Animator. It was later renamed Macromedia Flash 1.0. The company distributed its plugin for free so anyone could use its software. Soon over 90% of Internet users had Flash Player.
Source: Wikipedia
The ICQ chat platform was created. It was developed in 1996 by an Israeli company called Mirabilis. It was one of the first standalone clients to enable instant messaging. While it wasn’t the first real-time chat platform, it was the first to offer a central service across different user accounts. ICQ was acquired by AOL in 1998.
Source: Wikipedia
The Internet Archive was created by Brewster Kahle after the successful creation of the Wide Area Information Servers System. He wanted to archive audio files, videos, images, text and websites on the Internet. That’s why he invented the Internet Archive, which was free to use.
Source: Cnet
People Henning Schulzrinne – born in Cologne, Germany (date of birth unknown). An Internet multimedia expert and computer scientist. He is best known for developing Internet standards. Together with Mark Handley he developed the Session Initiation Protocol, the Real-time Transport Protocol, the Real-time Streaming Protocol and the Next Steps in Signaling Protocol. Source: Wikipedia Brewster Kahle – born 1960 in New York City, New York. This Internet activist, entrepreneur and computer engineer is a digital librarian and promoter of the Internet. He founded the Alexa Internet and the Internet Archive. He also founded WAIS Inc. along with the WAIS System, a document retrieval system, a precursor to search engines. Source: Wikipedia Saber Bhatia – born 1968 in Chandigarh, India. This Indian-American engineer developed Hotmail with Jack Smith in 1996 in response to an ISP email. Bhatia was also CEO of Hotmail until it was acquired by Microsoft. He also founded JaxtrSMS, a free messaging service, and e-commerce company Arzoo Inc. Source: Wikipedia Jack Smith – born in 1968 in the United States. He founded Hotmail in 1996 with Sabeer Bhatia. He worked for Apple Inc, founded EEE.com, co-founded Akamba Corporation and is currently CEO of Proximex. Source: Wikipedia Jonathan Gay – born in 1967 in the United States. A software entrepreneur and programmer who founded Future Wave Software Company. He is one of the main people responsible for the development of Flash. He also founded the company Software as Art, which developed solutions for the efficient use of energy. Source: Wikipedia Norman Hajjar – Date of birth unknown. He was an electrical engineer and broadcast a radio station over the Internet. With his company Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab, he successfully broadcast a fully Internet-based radio signal in 1995. Source: Wikiwand Technologies & Companies statistics |
1997
The term “Weblog” was invented by Jörn Barger. He came up with this term while logging data on his website. He was one of the pioneers of blogging and is still a blogger today. However, the term “blog” came about a little later, in 1999, when he wanted to shorten the term “weblog”.
Source: Peterme.com And Cnet
SixDegrees.com was launched. It was the first social networking site to allow people to create accounts, customize profiles, and connect with other people using their email address.
Dave Winer developed the scriptingNews format, a precursor to RSS feeds. RSS allows people to subscribe to a website in a standardized way and receive readable content. Based on XML language, this format helps people get information from different websites in the same channel. Ramanathan V. Guha and Dan Libby of Netscape further developed this XML-based technology and created RSS 0.90 in 1999. RSS feeds made blogs much more accessible and enabled podcasting as a concept.
Source: Tutorials point
WiFi was introduced to the world. It was made publicly available to everyone and this event led to the formation of the 802.11 Committee, which was renamed IEEE802.11. The name was inspired by a set of standards that define wireless local area network communications.
Source: PopularMechanics.com
Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph founded Netflix Inc. in Scotts Valley, California. The company originally sold and rented DVDs by mail, but quickly transitioned to pure rentals and remained its primary business model until 2007, when it launched a streaming platform.
Source: Wikipedia
People Jörn Barger – born 1953 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. One of the blogging pioneers who had an influential website called Robot Wisdom. He invented the term “weblog,” which later evolved into “blog.” He has published widely on various topics, including AI and James Joyce. Source: Wikipedia Dan Libby – Date of birth unknown. A software engineer who contributed to the development of RSS fees while working at Netscape. He also helped port Netscape to the OS/2 platform. He currently works at Open Source Consulting as a software developer. Source: Wikipedia Ramanathan V. Guha – born 1965 in Tiruchirappalli, India. He contributed to computer technology by creating various interest standards such as Scheme.org, RDF and RSS. Guha also developed Google Custom Search and is co-founder of Alipiri and Epinions. Source: Wikipedia Reed Hastings – born 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. An American entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded Netflix and is currently the company’s chairman. Hastings also serves on the boards of many nonprofit organizations. Source: Wikipedia Marc Randolph – born 1958 in Chappaqua, New York. One of the co-founders of Netflix and former CEO. A successful consultant and businessman who co-founded Macworld Magazine and MicroWarehouse. He is a board member at Chubbies Shorts and Looker Data Sciences. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies statistics |
1998
Two Ph.D. Students Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded a company called Google in September. Google was founded by the two students as a private company.
Source: Wikipedia
The first blogs were published. The social blogging network Open Diary was launched. For the first time, readers had the opportunity to comment on someone else’s blog. At the same time, the network gave bloggers the opportunity to share their content only with their friends. All of these publishing tools on Open Diary inspired a number of new blogging platforms.
Source: Wikipedia
The Mail Abuse Prevention System Company was founded by Paul Vixie. The goal of this organization was to combat spam messages and other abusive behavior via email.
Source: Wikipedia
PayPal was founded in Paolo Alto, California. Back then, no one knew how big this money transfer platform would become and many people were skeptical about online transfers.
Source: Electronic Payments International
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers got its first CEO and president – Michael Roberts.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
The multilingual Internet domain name system was founded by Tan Tin Wee. He was key to putting it on the international map – in the 1990s he led a group of people who hosted Tamil and Chinese websites in Singapore. He has received numerous awards for his technological achievements in the development of the Tamil Internet.
Source: Internet Hall of Fame
People Larry Page – born 1973 in Lansing, Michigan. A successful internet entrepreneur and software developer. He was one of the founders of Google and worked as Google’s CEO until 2001. He also developed a search algorithm used by Google, “PageRank,” and was CEO of Alphabet. Source: Wikipedia Sergey Brin – born 1973 in Moscow, Russia. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google and Alphabet Inc. They also co-developed PageRank and achieved great success together. In 2020, Brin was the 20thTh richest person in the world. Source: Wikipedia Paul Vixie – born in 1963 in the United States. This computer scientist contributed to the development of the Domain Name System, its procedures, designs, mechanisms and implementations. He also achieved important successes in the area of open source software. Vixie was behind the first anti-spam service provider. Source: Wikipedia Michael Roberts – Date of birth unknown. An expert and consultant in Internet technology. He was CEO and President of ICANN. He is currently Chairman of the US UCAN and President of Darwin Group, Inc. Source: ICANNWiki Technologies & Companies statistics |
1999
Winifred Mitchell Baker has joined the Mozilla project. She also founded the Mozilla Foundation and became its chair. Their work gave legitimacy to open source Internet software clients.
Source: Wikipedia
Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark. Craigslist quickly became one of the most popular websites in the world. It introduced classified ads to the Internet and revolutionized it. With the influence of Craigslist, classifieds has become an Internet industry.
Source: Wikipedia
The .SE board recognized the value of Domain Name System Security Extensions, or DNSSEC. This Internet protocol protection provides visitors with greater security and shows them whether they are visiting a secure website. The application of DNSSEC is largely due to the efforts of Anne-Marie Eklund Lowinder.
Source: Wikipedia
Pyra Labs creates and launches their “Blogger” platform. Anyone on the Internet could now create their own personal blog quickly and for free on this platform. Blogger was a huge success for the blogging community and developed rapidly. For this reason, Google acquired the company in 2003.
Source: Wikipedia
One of the world’s first popular messaging, voice calling and video calling services was launched – Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger.
Source: Wikipedia
The first major internet-based music platform was launched – Napster. In just a month, Napster began distributing MP3 data to its users. The application was created by Sean Fanning and was a major milestone that showed how the Internet could change the entire music industry in the future.
Source: Wikipedia
The BlackBerry “850” was presented for the first time in Munich. This two-way email pager was named by marketing firm Lexicon Branding. The company soon traded under the name BlackBerry Limited and was heavily involved in the development of smartphones and the entire mobile communications industry.
Source: Wikipedia
People Mitchell Baker – born 1959 in Berkeley, California. She is Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Foundation and Executive Chairman of Mozilla Corporation. She worked for Netscape Communications Corporation and the Open Source Applications Foundation. She made major contributions to intellectual property protection and legal issues related to Internet services and product development. Source: Wikipedia Craig Newmark – born 1952 in New Jersey, USA. He is best known for creating the popular website Craigslist. This entrepreneur, philanthropist, and computer programmer has made numerous donations to humanitarian organizations and worked as a consultant for nonprofit organizations. Source: Wikipedia Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder – born 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden. A proud member of the Internet Hall of Fame, board member of several Internet organizations and representative of ICANN. Anne-Marrie is one of the few people who controls key generation for the DNSSEC Internet Protocol. Source: Wikipedia Shawn Fanning – born 1980 in Brockton, Massachusetts. This investor, entrepreneur and programmer is best known for developing Napster. This was the first peer-to-peer platform where people shared music. However, after numerous copyright lawsuits, he sold the company. He also founded the companies Rupture, Path, Airtime and Snocap. Source: Wikipedia Technologies & Companies statistics |
To be continued