• The Internet has changed our lives for

ever and there are some people who have

changed the Internet for the better, in

their own different ways

1. Every time you fire up your Bit Torrent client thank Bram Cohen.

2. Cohen is the author of the peer-to-peer Bit Torrent protocol. He is currently the chief scientist at Bit Torrent, Inc.

Bit Torrent traffic accounts for a large part of all traffic over the Internet.

3. While movie and music studios may not be his biggest fans but millions of Internet users are

1.Bram Cohen, Co-Founder, Bit Torrent

1. 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.

2. 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

2.Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia

3.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.

• Templeton was also an active participant in the growth of Usenet, the worldwide distributed Internet discussion system.

4.Matt Mullenweg, Founding Developer, Word

Press Blogging site and Software

• Word Press, 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.

1. 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.

2. Kahle founded the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, in 1996.

3. The Internet Archive is possibly the largest digital library.

4. The Internet Archive, in addition to archived WebPages, offers free access to books, movies and music

5.Brewster Kahle, founder, Internet Archive

1. 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.

Abelson helped establish Creative Commons in 2001 was also a founding director of the Free Software Foundation

6.Hal Abelson, founding director, Creative Commons and

the Free Software Foundation

1. Cerf is currently a vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google.

2. 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

7.Vinton G Cerf -Father of the Internet

1. Berners-Lee invented the

World Wide Web in 1990.

2. A few years later, in 1994,

he founded the World Wide

Web Consortium (W3C),

the organisation that sets

the development of

standards for the World

Wide Web.

8.Sir Tim Berners-Lee, director, World Wide Web

1. 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.

2. She has been involved with the

Mozilla project right from its

inception and was also instrumental

in the founding of the Mozilla

Foundation.

3. The mission of the foundation is to

"promote choice and innovation on

the Internet."

9.Mitchell Baker, chairperson, Mozilla Foundation

• Dries Buytaert, co-

founder and president,

Drupal Association:

Dries Buytaert built the

open source Drupal

CMS that powers

millions of websites,

including the White

House website

10.Dries Buytaert, co-founder and president, Drupal

Association