SOME FAMOUS PERSONS

• Ramus Lerdorf developed PHP.

• Steve Case is the founder, CEO  and chairman of American Online.

• Tim Berners Lee founded World Wide Web Consortium(W3C).

• Charles Goldfarb created SGML and wrote the first SGML Parser.

• Ted Nelson is the father of Hypertext.

• Mark Andreessen founded the Mosaic Browser and was the cofounder of Netscape Communications.

• George Boole is the mathematician who helped establish modern symbolic logic, especially by his algebra of logic, a two-valued system.

• Larry Ellison is the cofounder and CEO of Oracle Corp.

• Larry Wall created PERL programming language.

• Gordon Moore co-founded Intel Corporation in 1968 and predicted that the number of transistors that the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year.

• Konrad Zuse built the world's first binary digit computer: Z1

• Sabeer Bhatia co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft.

• Alan Turing is largely responsible for breaking the German Enigma codes, created a test that provided a foundation for artificial intelligence.

• Bill Gates is co-founder, chairman and chief software architect for Microsoft Corporation.

• Jeff Bezos is founder and CEO of Amazon.com

•  Linus Torwalds wrote parts of Linux OS in 1991 and invited users to improve on the original open language system he created.

• Vint Cerf co-invented the TCP/IP Internet protocol with Robert Kahn in 1973.

• Dennis Ritchie co-created the UNIX operating system in 1969 with Ken Thompson.

• Bjarne Stroustrup is the inventor of the C++ programming language.

• James Gosling designed the original Java language and wrote "Emacs" for Unix systems.

• Charles Babbage developed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, two punched-card controlled general purpose calculators.

• Ramus lerdorf developed PHP.

• Paul Zimmerman - Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).

•  Shawn Fanning created Napster.