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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2013, 02:03:46 AM »
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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« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2013, 02:04:30 AM »
7. Marc Andreessen - Netscape Navigator
Marc Andreessen revolutionized Internet navigation. He came up with first widely used Web browser called Mosaic which was later commercialised as the Netscape Navigator. Marc Andreessen is also co-founder and chairman of Ning and an investor in several startups including Digg, Plazes, and Twitter.

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« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2013, 02:06:16 AM »
8. Jarkko Oikarinen - Internet Relay Chat, IRC
Jarkko Oikarinen developed the first real-time online chat tool in Finland known as Internet Relay Chat. IRC's fame took off in 1991. When Iraq invaded Kuwait and radio and TV signals were shut down, thanks to IRC, though, up-to-date information was able to distribute.

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« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2013, 02:06:53 AM »
9. Robert Tappan Morris - First Worm Virus
The concept of a worm virus is unique compared to the conventional hacking. Instead of getting into a network themselves, they send a small program they have coded to do the job. From this concept, Robert Tappan Morris created the Morris Worm. It's one of the very first worm viruses to be sent out over the internet that inadvertently caused many thousands of dollars worth of damage and "loss of productivity" when it was released in the late 80s.

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« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2013, 02:07:26 AM »
10. David Bohnett - Geocities
David Bohnett founded GeoCities in 1994, together with John Rezner. It grew to become the largest community on the Internet. He pioneered and championed the concept of providing free home pages to everyone on the web. The company shut down the service on October 27, 2009.

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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2013, 02:08:36 AM »
11. Ward Cunningham - The first Wiki.
American programmer, Ward Cunningham, developed the first wiki as a way to let people collaborate, create and edit online pages together. Cunningham named the wiki after the Hawaiian word for "quick."



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