Internet History

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We are at a moment in time, we have come far, and we will go far.

Slides: History, Internet, Social and Mobile

Key Innovators: People

  • Internet pioneers win engineering prize

  • The internet's fifth man

  • Vinton Cerf: Internet

  • Robert Kahn: Internet

  • Ray Tomlinson: e-mail

  • David Mills (Network Time Protocol)

  • David Faber, while his name may not be as familiar, he is in the Internet Hall of Fame, and is a University of Delaware Professor. In fact the University of Delaware has played a role in the evolution of the internet and technologies than many might not appreciate. Among the notable events, Linus Torvalds used a UD based newsgroup to announce Linux, and Apple's touchscreen technology was originally designed at Delaware (FingerWorks).

  • Tim Berners-Lee: HTML

  • Marc Andressen: Browser (now Venture Guy)

  • Bill Gates Microsoft

  • Steve Jobs: Tech Time Warp of the Week: Steve Jobs Predicts the Future, 1980, and A '1984' Reader 30 Years Later: A Brief History of Apple's Instantly Iconic Super Bowl Commercial

  • Richard Stallman: Free Software

  • Linus Torvalds: Linux

  • Jeff Bezos: Amazon

  • Larry Page: Google
  • Sergey Brin: Google

  • Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook

    Key Innovators: Organizations

    Key Milestones

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