August 21, 2010

• DOB : June 8th,1955
• 1989 : Inventor of HTML and www
• Director of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Founder of the World Wide Web Foundation

Matt Mullenweg

DOB : Jan 11^th, 1984

Founder of wordpress (2005).

2005 : Founded Automatic

WordPress receives 90 millions visits monthly.

Turned down 200 million dollars to sell his company.

Larry Page

Co-Founded Google, along with Sergey Brin

Developed the Pagerank Algorithim

24^th Richest person in the world. Personal wealth 17.5 billion.

Ranked 5^th most powerful person in world by Forbes

DOB: Dec 28^th

Creator of Linux OS(1991)

Linux Kernal – heart of Linux OS and is Open Source.

Linux is primarily a server platform but desktop and office use is on the rise.

Numerous versions of OS’s have been realeased based on the Linux kernel source code

Net Worth : App. 20 Million

DOB: September 9^th, 1941

Creator of C programming language and key developer of UNIX OS (1969).

UNIX and C language was the tipping point for users to switch from large computers to mini desktops.

Was the Head of Lucent technology and retired in 2007.