Francisco Palos
Chapter 1
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Internet
1. UCLA The first I.M.P. was connected to the first host at U.C.L.A. on September 2, 1969
2. Al Gore He helped four national supercomputing centers get federal funding.
3. Rand Corporation Paul Baran, an electrical engineer, got the idea of packet switching while working at the Rand Corporation around 1960. The Rand Coporation also had a a time-sharing system.
4. Vint Cerf Currently an executive in Google. He is the co-designer of the TCP and IP protocols.
5. Leonard Kleinrock he helped create the earliest computer networks in the 1960s.
6. Jeff Bezzos He created the online bookstore Amazon.com, currently the worlds largest online retailer, in 1995.
7. Marc Andreesen He created the Mosaic browser as a student at the University of Illnois. He partner with Jim Clark to create Netscape Communications.
8. Jonathan Abrams He created the social networking site Friendster.
9. Jerry Yang In 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo launched Yahoo, which is still one of the most visited web sites.
10. Sergey Brin Sergey Brin and Larry Page unveiled their search engine Google in 1998, which became the number one most used search engine.
