Internet Hall of Fame Innovators
The third and final part of my Internet Hall of Fame series. Today, the innovators:
- Mitchell Baker – instrumental player in the development of Mozilla and founding chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, Baker helped legitimize Open Source Internet applications
- Tim Berners-Lee – invented the WWW
- Robert Cailliau – developed with Tim Berners-Lee, a hypertext system for accessing documentation
- Van Jacobson – his algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) helped solve the problem of congestion
- Larry Landweber – helped establish the first network gateways between the US and countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America
- Paul Mockapetris – invented the DNS
- Craig Newmark – founder of Craigslist
- Raymond Tomlinson – inventing network electronic mail and choosing the “@” sign in emails
- Linus Torvalds – creator of the Linux operating system
- Philip Zimmermann – creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
No doubt many more names over time will be added to this category.