People are more and more connecting with one another since the launch of the Internet. Via the Internet, people easily exchange and update information from remote places all over the world. Just by clicks, we can rapidly access to a variety of websites worldwideand complete different purposes including communicating through e-mails, chatting, purchasing and paying our bills, reading online news, and so on. Behind the remarkable development of the Internet, there are many people greatly contributing to website construction such as Ray Tomlinson, Scott Fahlman, Robert Tappan Morris, and Matt Drudge. Let\'s have a look at the following most influential people on the changes and the development of Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web(www.)
Programmer Ray Tomlinson is the Father of Email featured with the “@” symbol format for e-mail addresses
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the Father of Internet
Michael Hart, the founder ofeBooks- the world’s first electronic library
Gary Thuerk invented the first form of mass e-mailing to customers called Spam
Scott Fahlman, the enlightener to smiley emoticons
Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape Navigator
Jarkko Oikarinen, the developer of the first online chat tool called Internet Relay Chat
Robert Tappan Morris launched the first computer worm to the Internet called Morris Worm
David Bohnett, the chairman of the largest community on the Internet called GeoCities
Ward Cunningham programed and developed the first wiki
Sabeer Bhatia, the founder of Hotmail service
Matt Drudge, the chairman of the website The Drudge Report
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google
Bill Gates, the founder and chairman of Microsoft
Steve Jobs, the CEO of the 21st century\'s the first decade, is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple
David Filo and Jerry Yang, the co-founders of Yahoo
Brad Fitzpatrick, the Father of the earliest blog LiveJournal
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