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Most prominent people of internet history
2 points by reacweb on Jan 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
A long time ago, I have encountered (on HN, I think) a marvelous gallery of portraits of important figures of the building of internet, unix (Rob Pike, Tim, ...) I have already spend a lot of time googling. I have a presentation to give on saturday. Any help would be welcome.


This list looks promising - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_pioneers

The sheer number of people coming before those like Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen is a bit enlightening as well.

Aside: Your post got me wondering if there's a list somewhere of all people in computing etc whose contributions have been significant enough to receive the "black bar" on HN when they die.


I reply to myself: the site was https://www.facesofopensource.com/




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