The internet has gained its present form by passing through various stages of its evolution. Its genesis begins from the labs of Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1992. The other mentionable stages occurred in 1999 and 2004 when Wikipedia was introduced. As a matter of fact, the internet, today, is the integral part of the modern man and its influence can be observed in all walks of life.  

As far as the utility of the internet is concerned, there is no substitute available for it. It is unique in its manifold applications. Its commercial benefits are so amazing that it appears to be a gold mine for the business sectors. At the same time, the internet is an unprecedented source of valuable information on all academic aspects. A third and undeniable benefit of the internet is its utility for the entertainment purposes.

But the voyage of discovery in the world of the internet is not over. Every new day ushers in new benefits for people, belonging to different sections of life. The IT professionals across the globe are determined to introduce new developments as well as enhancing the already existing opportunities on the internet. The world remains in debt of deep gratitude to the wonderful skills of IT professionals who contributed to revolutionize the world with the wonders of the internet. Onlytechtalks feel proud in remembering here the outstanding contributions of some of the world-known IT inventors.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – Google Inc.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the most eminent contributors to the internet world, commenced their career with the humble beginnings. They created a lab in the garage of a friend. The two guys had already secured PhDs from Stanford University and had an ambition to create a remarkable search engine. It was not an easy task. But both of them were confident to materialize their plans an at last their efforts bore fruit. The search engine, they developed was named as Google and made its debut in 1997 as Google.com

In the evolution of the internet, their names are thought to be the most prominent developers. The success of their plan enabled Larry Page and Sergey Brin to earn huge sums of money.

   David Filo and Jerry Yang – Yahoo! Inc.
Another remarkable search engine Yahoo is also the product of Stanford University graduates, named David Filo and Jerry Yang. Basically both of them were Electrical engineers but their input in the field of Information Technology is enormous.

Yang initiated work on cataloging web pages and it was later on named as “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. In the beginning, the URL assigned to Yang’s work was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo but later on, it was merged to Yahoo. The popularity graph of yahoo is always on its rise. In the year of its debut 1994 it received unbelievable number of hits. Such a tremendous welcome gave David and Filo outstanding financial boost.

Presently, David Filo enjoys a financial worth of $2.9 billion dollars and likewise Jerry Yang stands on $2.3 billion dollars.

Bill Gates – Microsoft
Bill Gates is a legendary name in the professional world of Information Technology. Scarcely there may be any region of the world, where Bill has not recognition as the most-reputed and successful IT professional.

Bill known as William Henry “Bill” Gates III is known in the financial sectors of the world as the riches IT entrepreneur. His organization ‘Microsoft’ is known to every internet user. He founded Microsoft in collaboration with Paul Allen. Bill Gates has secured an introduction of the world most popular philanthropist. His contributions to various charitable organizations of the world are quite enormous. He is an eminent contributor to scientific projects which obviously has increased his popularity across the world.

His philanthropist organization ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’ is continuously engaged in various welfare projects since its inception in 2000.

   Steven Paul Jobs – Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. has the credit of introducing the very first personal computers in 1970s. The endeavour made by Apple Inc met tremendous success and brought a wave of fame to the company. The next venture which introduced the very first mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface) consolidated the position of the company all over the world. These developments made things easy for the computer-user community and helped Apple Inc. made its mark.

It also placed CEO of Apple Inc., Steven Paul Jobs among the renowned IT developers of the world. After the lapse of a few years, Jobs had to face professional rivalry by the other directors of the company and finally he resigned Apple inc. in 1985.

Paul jobs initiated a new IT company the same year with the tile of NeXT. He now focused his attention on developing softwares particularly for higher education and business markets. At present, Paul Jobs is a successful entrepreneur, being the largest shareholder Walt Disney Company.

Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Zuckerberg is named among these successful IT professionals who have achieved a dream success within an amazingly short period of time. He began his professional work when he was still a student at Harvard. Zuckerberg’s remarkable success is the introduction of Facebook which has gained popularity overnight in 2004.

Initially, the project was known as FaceMatch but later on the name was replaced with Facebook. Zuckerberg introduced his work first in Ivy League schools as well as in different Boston institutions. Later on, Facebook was received by people of all age groups warmly.

Zuckerberg is only 24 years old young man but he ranks with the most successful IT Entrepreneurs of the world with a financial worth of $1.5 billion.

   Kevin Rose – Digg
Kevin is known to all those who have some contact with the internet in their daily lives. He is acknowledged as the most prominent internet idealist of our times. His tremendous contributions gave a permanent fame among all Digg users. Kevin commenced his work on Digg in the year 2004 with the help of programmer whom Kevin paid $12 per hour.

Since its very inception, Digg.com has been continuously climbing the ladder of success. The recently made collaborations with Omidyar Network, Netscape helped Digg obtain $2.8 million which strengthened its financial worth in the international IT market. Another remarkable project on Kevin’s credit is the launching of Pownce and Revision3 that helped users social-bookmarking.  

Kevin Rose’s another introduction is his popularity as a TV host. He also appeared as a co-host in a TV show named ‘The Screen Savers’ for some time until 2005.
 
Bram Cohen – BitTorrent
Bram Cohen is a respectable name in the world of Information Technology for his enormous contributions and IT developments. He has the credit of developing ‘BitTorrent’ which has benefited a great number of people across the world. The remarkable BitTorrent is gaining popularity with every passing day.

Cohen worked on various portfolios in different IT companies before joining BitTorrent. The most prominent among them was MojoNation which he resigned in 2001.

Apart from being inventor of BitTorrent Bram Cohen’s profile has many other achievements as well. He collaborated in laying the foundation of CodeCon where he presented his ideas for the first time on significant IT issues. He also authored Codeville in collaboration with other IT professionals of his stature. 

   Mike Morhaime – Blizzard Entertainment
Mike Morhaime’s claim for fame in the world of Information technology is his developments of the most popular online video games. Mike Morhaime’s Blizzard Entertainment is a reliable name for game-lovers in the world. His organization has already introduced games like World of Warcraft (WoW) which has attracted almost 10 million online gamers

At present, Mike Morhaime is the CEO and main shareholder of Blizzard Entertainment. Morhaime’s financial ranking in the world is $1.5 billion per annum.

Jimmy Wales – Wikipedia
Jimmy Wales’s name is associated with the amazing study source on the internet – Wikipedia. It has benefited people all over the world with its outstanding contents. All the information available on the website is free of cost. The users are also encouraged to share, amend and add information on myriads of topics present on the website.

Jimmy Wales has the credit of being co-founder this remarkable and widely-popular project. It was initiated in 2001. Jimmy also owns Wikia which is a web-hosting company, established as joint venture in 2004.

   Chad Hurley and Steve Chen – YouTube
YouTube has gained the tremendous popularity and eminence within the very brief period of time. It is the first choice of millions of people who love to watch entertainment as well as informative videos. The credit goes to Chad Hurley and Steve Chen for the introduction of this amazing website.

Both Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are young men of about 30 years but their success is unbelievable. Chad Hurley has an extensive career in information technology and has already worked for eBay’s PayPal. YouTube was launched in 2005. Later on the Google acquired the ownership of YouTube against $1.65 billion.   

Jeff Preston Bezos – Amazon
Among the educational websites, Amazon stands out to be the most prominent and is extensively visited by the internet users throughout the world. The credit developing this outstanding website goes to Jeff Bezos who is founder of Amazon. Jeff is also the president and chairman of the board of directors of Amazon.

The financial worth of the website amounts $8.2 billion dollars at present. Owing to his popularity and financial worth, Jeff was declared in Time magazine survey as the person of the year in 1999.

   Shawn Fanning – Napster, Rupture
In the world of internet, Shawn Fanning is credited for introducing for the first time peer-to-peer file sharing platform on the internet. This software was named as Napster by Shawn Fanning. He is the sole founder of Napster. Napster was launched by him when he was still a student at Northeastern University.  

After its debut, Napster faced many lawsuits and embarrassment for Shawn Fanning ultimately. Shawn continued working on other projects and achieved success by introducing another popular development named as Rupture in 2006.

Pierre Omidyar – eBay
Pierre Omidyar has remarkable services for the finance and business sectors. Pierre’s development ‘eBay’ provides a unique platform to the entrepreneurs of the world to sell their products across the globe. The popularity of Pierre’s contribution can be imagined by the huge profits, he earns annually. At present, his work owns a worth of $7.7 billion dollars.

Pierre Omidyar also authored source code of eBay at a young age and added fame to his credit a remarkable IT professional.

Pierre Omidyar has also the reputation of world-known philanthropist. He along with his wife, Pam contributes to a number of non-profits organizations in the world.

   Jack Ma – Alibaba
In line with Pierre Omidyar, another outstanding IT professional Jack Ma established a similar platform for e-commerce named as Alibaba. The project boosted up internationals business and provided opportunities of international trade from all corners of the world. Presently, Alibaba is one of the most popular website in the world. It was initiated in 1999, based in China.

Jack Ma founded Alibaba Group and launched another project named as TaoBao.com. It is similar with eBay in many respects but the project proved a success, attracting Yahoo Inc to get its 40% share.
 
Craig Newmark – Craigslist
Craig Newmark is the founder of widely-popular website Craigslist. It is rated among those outstanding websites which are visited by millions of visitors. Access to the contents of the website is accessible for all the visitors. Like Wikipedia, the matter on the website can be shared and added by all users.

Generally speaking, Craigslist engages communities on multiple forums. The website also provides opportunity of placing advertisements without paying charges.

   Matt Mullenweg – WordPress
Among the well-known IT developers, the name of Matt Mullenweg is the most sensational owing to his amazing contributions at an unbelievable younger age. Matt attracted the world attention by introducing the core of Wordpress when he was only 19 years of age.

WordPress provides opportunities of writing blogs for the visitors of the website. The platform launched by Matt Mullenweg gained tremendous popularity all over the world and helped established a blogging culture on the internet.

In Matt Mullenweg’s profile other remarkable achievements include the launching of Automattic and Akismet, a well-known spasm solution.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee – World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee enjoys an acknowledged place in world of the internet for his tremendous contributions. He is founder of World Wide Web which he initiated with the help of Robert Cailliau. Sir Tim Berners’ contributions helped enhanced working between an HTTP client and server through the internet.

The project made its debut in 1990 and gained a worldwide popularity. Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s concern for introducing standards and enhancements in his existing projects is also a task worth-appreciating. He established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at Massachusetts for the purpose.

Most of the developments on the internet are the outcome of his untiring efforts for which he should be duly credited.

   Thomas Anderson – MySpace
In the world of the internet, Thomas Anderson’s claim for his worldwide fame is his contribution by developing the immensely popular website MySpace. He is now the president of MySpace while Chris DeWolfe serves as the CEO of the group. 
MySpace is rated as an enormously popular website among the social networking websites in the world particularly in the United States. It is equally popular among the youngsters as well as the other age groups. The initial work of MySpace was done in 2003 at eUniverse with the help of some of the employees of the company.  

Thomas Anderson has introduced himself as a default “friend” on his website, MySpace and is known as the face of the website. Due to untiring efforts of Thomas Anderson, he has increased the number of participants on his website nearly 250 million.

There are some interesting facts about the school times of Thomas Anderson. In his youth, it is said, he was a hacker, using a fake identity “Lord Flathead” - who along with his team he accessed Chase Manhattan Bank computers and altered some of the records. He later on demanded for the use of the system threatening if declined he will destroy bank records. But Thomas Anderson was never charged by any law court for hacking data.

Garrett Camp – StumbleUpon
The internationally popular bookmarking website, StumbleUpon, was founded by Garrett Camp in collaboration with other Information technology genii Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd in November 2001. Since its appearance in the cyber world, the website is being used by an immensely large community of people across the globe for sharing and locating new website in the huge traffic of websites on the internet. After the four years of his professional life, StumbleUpon shifted to San Francisco in 2005.   

The reason for this shifting was interest of the Silicon Valley investor Brad O’Neill who made an offer to Garrett Camp for investment in his project. The offer was accepted by Garrett Camp and Geoff and the headquarters of StumbleUpon was thus moved to San Francisco.  

StumbleUpon can easily be counted among those websites which has attracted great number of people from all corners of the world. Presently, there are 6,443,266 users only on the ‘About’ page of the website. These users belong to various age groups. Another eminent feature of StumbleUpon is Firefox which is equally popular among the internet users.  

   Linus Torvalds – Linux
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a well-known IT professional. The best development on his credit is the introduction of Linux kernel. At present, he is working as the coordinator of Linux kernel project. Linus Benedict Torvalds belongs to Finland. He has been assisted by his friend and colleague Ari Lemmke in developing Linux.

In the beginning, the project was named as “Freax” by Linus Benedict Torvalds but later on the suggestion of Ari Lemmke, it was renamed as Linux.

Linux has a participation of thousands of people and it is being increased with every passing day. Linux enjoys the reputation of an unparalleled authority on all new codes introduced in Linux kernel.

Jon Postel – Internet Pioneer
Jonathan Bruce Postel is known to the world of Information Technology for his unmatched and noteworthy contributions with regards to the internet standards. His career began an editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) and it consolidated his position as a notable IT professional. Later he began work on the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and remained attached with the work throughout his life. 

Jonathan Postel is credited with the creation of TCP/IP, SMTP and DNS. The internet users know well how important these developments are in the evolution of the internet. He played significant role in enhancing the protocols and their documentation. Above all he is also appreciated for his unique capabilities as a software engineer. Jonathan Postel kept on contributing to the internet from its very inception in 1969.

His contributions were duly recognized and he was paid tribute with the issuance of an award by his name. It is called The Internet Society’s Postel Award. On his death, he was paid homage by the most eminent IT veterans such as Vint Cerf who wrote his obituary. 

   Caterina Fake – Flickr
Flicker has gained a tremendous popularity among the internet users for photo sharing. The credit of developing Flicker goes to Caterina Fake. She did the project in collaboration with her husband Stewart Butterfield and gained a permanent fame for herself. Later on the project was enhanced by the significant contributions to it by Ludicorp in Vancouver. In the year 2005, Flicker was hired by Yahoo and has become a constant feature in the cyber world. In Web 2.0, Flicker introduced more advance features such as social networking, tagging, and algorithms.

Caterina Fake began her career as art director at Salon.com. Prior to the introduction of Flicker, she made significant contributions in developing the online community by introducing different social software. She has also been engaged in publishing and has also served as a member of the Board of directors of Creative Commons.

Stewart Butterfield, Fake’s husband was ranked as one of the 50 eminent entrepreneurs by Businessweek. He was also included in the list of 100 most influential people by Time Magazine.

Marc Andreessen – Netscape
Marc Andreessen’s claims for fame on the internet are many and varied. He is an investor, startup coach, blogger and a successful businessman. However, the most prominent introduction of Andreessen is that he is an eminent software engineer. The ever first browser on the internet was introduced by Andreessen. He also laid foundation of a reputable organization named as Netscape Communications Corporation.
  
In the field of social networking, Andreessen founded Ning in collaboration of his colleagues. He also headed Opsware which was originally created as Loudcloud. He is serving at present as the member of the Board of Directors of Facebook.

   Jack Dorsey – Twitter
Jack Dorsey has the credit of establishing a widely popular social networking website named as Twitter. Famed as software architect and an outstanding entrepreneur, Jack Dorsey is an eminent figure in the word of the internet. His website offers micro-blogging also and is currently in use by great majority of people.

Owing to his significant contributions to the field of Information technology, Jack Dorsey has been categorized as “the best and the brightest” by BusinessWeek. Jack has also been paid tribute as TR35 by the renowned MIT’s Technology Review for his meritorious innovations.

Jack Dorsey collaborated with two other distinguished IT developers Stone and Williams to launch Twitter Inc. In 2008, Jack Dorsey assumed the office of chairman of Twitter while William as its CEO. With the ever-increasing popularity of Twitter, Jack Dorsey is bent upon improving its uptime and make it more compatible to the needs of the user community.