Culture Heroes of the Net

John Postel - God of internet/Domain names Douglas Englebart - Inventor of mouse in Xerox park PhyberOptic - NYC hacker that set in jail for a year Linus Torvalds - Developer of Linux - free unix system Kevin Mitnick - Hacker of all hackers - still in jail Tsutomu Shimomura - the one ho caught hacker Mitnick
Cap'n Crunch - the hacker who whistled - John T. Draper Mark Pesce - developed VRML - 3D browser language Asia Carrera - WebLady, PornoStar, BusinessWoman Mitchell Kapor - developer of Lotus123 and EFF leader John Perry Barlow - EFF founder, Greatfull Dead Lyrican, writer Dennis Ritchie - developer of C language (with Ken thompson)
Ken Thompson - developer of C language (with Dennis Ritchie) Vinton Cerf - developer of TCP/IP Steve Wozniak - inventor of Apple/Macintosh (with Steve Jobs) Steve Jobs - Inventor/CEO of Apple David avidan - Israeli poet Esther Dyson - Computing specialist, business woman, write, journalist
Sandy (Allucquere Rosanne) Stone - ACTLAB godess, writer, teacher, performer ChuckD - head of Public Enemy band - fighter for MP3 Philip K. Dick - Science fiction writer - StarWars Alan Turing - Mathematician, inventor of turing machine Paul Allen - partner of Bill gates in starting Microsoft Paco Xander Nathan - father of FringeWare
Vannevar Bush - Scientist, inventor of Memex machine Howard Rheingold - writer, research of virtual communities Jaron lanir - pioneer in Virtual reality Ted Nelson - Xanadu project William Gibson - cyberpunk pioneer, author of several novels Ada - first woman programmer
Nicholas Negroponte - head of MediaLab, Wired, author of 'Being Digital' Douglass Rushkoff - author of Cyberia, Media Virus, Ecstasy Club and more Bruce Sterling - writer, lecturer, about net culture Kathey Acker - postmodern artist and philosopher Tim Berners Lee - developer of web mosaic Brenda Laurel - writer/teacher about Man-Machine interface

* The appearance order has no meaning whatsoever
** Stay tuned for some more heroes and overall insights... soon uploaded...
*** Any facts/gossip about of the above, plus reference, will be greatly appreciated
**** Many of these articles have been published in "Captain Internet" - Haaretz supplement
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