Internet pioneers

Bruce Pinchbeck, Jr better known as B.J. or Beege (born March 16 1987 in Pennsylvania) is a webmaster who founded the originally non-profit website B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Help for Kids during the early stages of the Internet, before Google and Wikipedia happened. He started the website with his father when he was eight years old for other children to quickly find websites to help them with school. ...more on Wikipedia about "B.J. Pinchbeck"

Robert Braden is an American computer scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Braden"

Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938), along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the TCP/IP protocol, the technology used to transmit information on the modern Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bob Kahn"

Brendan Patrick Kehoe (born December 3, 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is a software developer and author. He has written two books as well as technology articles in the specialist press (e.g., in Boardwatch Magazine) on the topic of the Internet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brendan Kehoe"

On the first webpages created by Tim Bernes Lee, Carl Barker was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Asperen was "at CERN for a six month period during his degree course at Brunel University, UK. Carl [worked] on the server side, possibly on client authentication." ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Barker"

Dejan Ristanović is a well known Serbian writer and computer publicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dejan Ristanović"

Donald Watts Davies CBE FRS ( June 7, 1924 – May 28, 2000) was a British computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), along with Paul Baran and Leonard Kleinrock in the US. ...more on Wikipedia about "Donald Davies"

On the first webpages created by Tim Bernes Lee, Eelco van Asperen was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Asperen "ported the line-mode browser the PC under PC-NFS; developed a curses version." ...more on Wikipedia about "Eelco van Asperen"

George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936 in Russia) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Sadowsky"

George Schlukbier is a North American innovator who was among the pioneers in planning and developing Internet website content while devising ways to market access to that content. As co-creator of NandO and NandO Times, he helped build the model for the Internet news website and the online interactive newspaper. As president and chief operating officer of Total Sports he shaped the way web services offer information and game coverage. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Schlukbier"

Joel Leyden, a native of New York, has practiced international public relations, public affairs, crisis communications and journalism for 25 years ** . As an Internet pioneer in Israel, he created Israel's first commercial Website - NetKing in 1995. In addition, Leyden produced the first Website for an Israeli prime minister, established the first condolence site on the Net for PM Yitzhak Rabin ** , created the Israel Defense Forces Website, was the first SEO - search engine optimizer in Israel and serves today as both commerical PR / SEO consultant and publisher of the Israel News Agency. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joel Leyden"

Jonathan Bruce Postel ( August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) made many significant contributions to the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the RFC document series. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at ISI. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jon Postel"

Marc Andreessen (born April 26, 1971) is the chair of Opsware, a software company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, an early web browser. In 2005, it came out that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marc Andreessen"

Marcel Legrand is Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Monster Worldwide and is currently responsible for overseeing the strategic and directional influence of the business, as well as spearheading partnerships, acquisitions, and expansion efforts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marcel Legrand"

On the first webpages created by Tim Bernes Lee, Nicola Pellow was credited as having contributed to the "WWW project". Pellow was "with the project from November 1990 to August 1991, and October 1992 to ??. A graduate of Leicester Polytechnic, UK, Nicola wrote the original line mode browser." As of October 1992, Pellow was working on a Mac version of her browser. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nicola Pellow"

Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in 1983 in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Mockapetris"

Robert Cailliau (b. 26 January, 1947) is one of the co- developers of the World Wide Web. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Cailliau"

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees its continued development. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tim Berners-Lee"

Vannevar Bush ( March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vannevar Bush"

Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the " founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vint Cerf"

Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky ( ) ( – ) was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vladimir Odoevsky"

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