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We may not be conscious about these 20 people who changed the INTERNET
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1 # Vint Cerf And Bob Kahn - Father of the Internet.



The Father of Internet Vint Cerf, together with Bob Kahn created the TCP/IP suite of communication protocols - a language used by computers to talk to each other in a network.
Vint Cerf once said that the internet is just a mirror of the population and spam is a side effect of a free service.

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2 # Tim Berners-Lee = Inventor of WWW.



Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He wrote
the first web client and server and designed a way to create links, or hypertext, amid different pieces of online information.
He now maintains standards for the web and continues to refine its design as a director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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3 # Ray Tomlinson = Father of Email.



Programmer Ray Tomlinson, the Father of Email made it possible to exchange messages between machines in diverse locations; between universities, across continents, and oceans.
He came up with the “@” symbol format fore-mail addresses.
Today, more than a billion people around the world type @ sign every day.

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4 # Michael Hart = The birth of eBooks.



Michael Hart started the birth of eBooks and breaks down the bars of ignorance and illiteracy. He created the Project Gutenberg and was considered world’s first electronic library that changed the way we read. The collection includes public domain works and copyrighted works with express permission.

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5 # Gary Thuerk = The first Email spam.



Spamming is an old marketing technique. Gary Thuerk, sent his first mass e-mailing to customers over the Arpanet for Digital’s new T-series of VAX systems. What he didn’t realize at the time was that he had sent the world’s first spam.

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6 # Scott Fahlman = The first emoticon.



Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first ASCII-based smiley emoticon, which he thought would help to distinguish between posts that should be taken humorously and those of a more serious nature. Now, everybody uses them in messenger programs, chat rooms, and e-mail.

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