Top 10 Internet heroes
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Bram Cohen, co-founder, BitTorrent: Every time you fire up your BitTorrent client thank Bram Cohen. Cohen is the author of of the peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol. He is currently the chief scientist at BitTorrent, Inc.
BitTorrent traffic accounts for a large part of all traffic over the Internet. While movie and music studios may not be his biggest fans but millions of Internet users are.
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Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia: Even though not everything in Wikipedia is factually correct, everyone from the school kid to a seasoned journalist makes it a point to check up on the world's largest encyclopedia for reference.
Jimmy Wales, along with Larry Sanger, launched Wikipedia in 2001. Wales is currently chairman emeritus of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind the collaborative online encyclopedia.
Available in 240 active editions, Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites on the Internet.
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Brad Templeton, board member, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Templeton was the chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) from 2000 to 2010.
He currently serves a member of the board of the non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organisation. The EFF works for the cause of free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.
In 1989 Templeton founded ClariNet Communications Corp., an electronic news publishing company, that is also said to be one of the earliest dot-com companies.
Templeton was also an active participant in the growth of Usenet, the worldwide distributed Internet discussion system.
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Matt Mullenweg, founding developer, WordPress blogging site and software: WordPress, the software behind some of the world's best blogs, was built by Matt Mullenweg in 2003. The open source CMS is used by over 200 million websites the world over.
Mullenweg, now 26, regularly makes it to the list of the most powerful people on the Internet.
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Brewster Kahle, founder, Internet Archive: The Internet has changed as an amazing pace over the years and the Internet Archive has stored in its servers copies of over 150 billion pages, that lets us see today a snapshot of what the Internet was like yesterday.
Kahle founded the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, in 1996. The Internet Archive is possibly the largest digital library. The Internet Archive, in addition to archived webpages, offers free access to books, movies and music.
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Hal Abelson, founding director, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation: Harold Abelson is a long-time proponent of making scientific and intellectual resources more open. He has been behind many pioneering organisations that encourage sharing of content.
He is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abelson helped establish Creative Commons in 2001 was also a founding director of the Free Software Foundation.
He is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abelson helped establish Creative Commons in 2001 was also a founding director of the Free Software Foundation.
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Vinton G Cerf: He is known as one "Fathers of the Internet". Cerf is currently a vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. He was instrumental in the formation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and also served as its chairman.
Cerf was also involved in the development of the first commercial email system.
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Mitchell Baker, chairperson, Mozilla Foundation: The Mozilla Foundation's most popular product, the Firefox web browser is the most potent challenge to the monopoly that Microsoft's Internet Explorer once enjoyed.
She has been involved with the Mozilla project right from its inception and was also instrumental in the founding of the Mozilla Foundation. The mission of the foundation is to "promote choice and innovation on the Internet."
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