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Builders of the Superhighway


 

timTim Berners-Lee a graduate of Oxford University England. Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential. With a background of system design in real time communications and text-processing software developement, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web.

 

Bill Gates was born October 28, 1951 in Seattle Washington. Bill had a vision as a teenager that every business and household should have a computer. The realization of Bill Gate's vision has changed the computing world. He's been chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corp. since 1975.

 

Ben Segal is British who graduated in Physics and Mathematics in 1958 from Imperial College London, then worked 7years on fast breeder reactor developement first for the UK Atomic Energy Authority and later in the USA for Detroit Edson Company. He's been at CERN since 1971 after finishing his Ph.D at Stanford University in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering.CERN has kept him busy on various projects including the coordinated introduction of the Internet Protocols at CERN beginning in 1985.

 

Marc Andreessen the single person most responsible for the transformation of the World Wide Web. Marc is now co-founder and Vice President of Tech nology Netscape Communications one of the coolest companies around and of course he's he owner of Netscape Navigator, today's leading browser. Aside from fame ,Marc is now worth a hefty 131 million. And he's only 24, his skills stems form an interest in computers dating back in his hometown of New Lisbon, Wisconsin. This is where he became an expert in programming. It was while Marc was working at NCSA that he and Eric Bina first developed Mosaic a program which makes it easier to mavigate around the intrnet . With the help of Jim Clark's money a new company was born to develop a new improved Mosaic. Marc recruited 6 members form the orginal team that created Mosaic, Their break through product has been the Internet Browser called Navigator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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