10 Unknown Tech Icons In The Internet Hall Of Fame


#5 Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to knowledge, and digital librarian.

He lead the development of the WAIS system, the Internet's first publishing and distributed search system and a precursor to the World Wide Web. In 1992, he co-founded, with Bruce Gilliat, WAIS (sold to AOL in 1995 for $15 million), and, in 1996, Alexa Internet (sold to Amazon.com in 1999 for $250M of stock). At the same time as he started Alexa, he founded the Internet Archive, which he still continues to direct. In 2001, he implemented the Wayback Machine, which allows public access to the World Wide Web archive that the Internet Archive has been gathering since 1996.

#6 Mitchell Baker

Mitchell Baker is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

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