The Godfathers of Internet
Craig Newmark
Role: Man who shifted the classifieds industry online
He is the man responsible for shifting the entire classifieds industry to online. He mainly achieved this with the help of his famous website Craigslist, which now has around 30 billion page views per month, support 12 languages covers 50 countries and has 50 million users alone in the U.S. He is a main advocate of keeping the internet free.
Al Gore
This Former U.S. Vice President is one of the first government officials who recognized the potential of internet to many fields including education. He supported the creation of internet legislative and economic wise. He is regarded as "a key proponent of sponsoring legislation that funded the expansion of and greater public access to the Internet."
