As a matter of course many now use the Microsoft Office package and the associated operating systems, looking to "Google" for terms on the Internet or watch videos on Youtube. Many of these services comprising only a few years and most were founded by committed young people. Who are the people behind YouTube, Google and Co., which the world of the Internet have influenced? Here are the first in a short abstract!
Bill Gates and Paul Allen - Microsoft Corporation
Born
1955 in Seattle, the son of a wealthy lawyer, Gates is due to its software products and, later, online services (eg Hotmail) is relevant involved in the dissemination and use of the Internet. He was already in his childhood, a genius in science and mathematics, and employed in his earliest Jungend with programming and developing new computer languages. Together with his school friend Paul Allen
(* 1953), he founded his first company at age 14
Traf-O-Data . The two developed a system for measuring traffic flows, and thus earned $ 20,000. 1973 began to study
Gates at Harvard
, but broke off his studies in 1975 and together with Paul Allen to build his new company
"Microsoft Corporation" (the name refers to
micro computer soft ware) to pay.
1981 them made his breakthrough as the
operating system MS-DOS , which was developed for IBM, was presented. Paul Allen retired in 1983 from the company than with his Crohn's disease Hodgik was found that he defeated, however. Today, all as a strategic Consultant working for Microsoft and is also a Gates as the richest man in the world.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google Inc.
This is probably one of the least known success stories next to Bill Gates. The two students Larry Page
(* 1973) and Sergey Brin
(born 1973) met for the first time in 1995 at the campus of Stanford University. A year later, the computer science students on the project started a search engine called
"BlackRub" Working . This search engine first ran on the servers of the university. In 1997 the name was
"Google" introduced for the search engine. It is derived from a pun on "googol
" , a mathematical concept
for the number 10
100 . This corresponds to a 1 with 100, out to tender. In 1998 they moved into the married
Garage by Susan Wojcicki, now sister in law of Sergey Brin, Suan's sister Ann. Both sisters are now working team as well for Google.
Jerry Yang and David Filo - Yahoo! Inc. Jerry Yang and David Filo created a Web catalog for the WWW The two founders (electrical engineering graduates of Stanford University), David Filo
(* 1966) and Jerry Yang
(b. 1968) developed in 1994 a help for navigating the Internet, which web sites arranged categories. Thus, they created one of the top web directories on the World Wide Web. The initial simple name for the directory
"Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was already unmgewandelt a year later, My, what an abbreviation for
Y et A nother H ierarchical O fficious O racle is. Known services are now operated by Yahoo include: del.icio.us, Flickr, AltaVista. 2008 was Jerry Yang down as CEO but weiterim Board and as a consultant Yahoo! operates. New boss is the 60-year-old Carol Bartz, who returned from her retirement to the extra online services to bring on track.
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook developed Mark Zuckerberg at age 20 Facebook The youngest living billionaire (b. 1984, estimated value of his companies 15 billion dollars) was founded 5 years ago on
4 . February 2004 the social network platform "Facebook" which was intended as an internal network of the Harvard students. Initial names were
FaceMatch , Then
TheFacebook and later the facebook.com domain was registered. The success was so great that Zuckerberg decided, other universities and schools to share on the network. Access was initially only available for members of listed schools and Universiäten and in conjunction with a valid e-mail address of these institutions. Today, Facebook is available for every 13 years. In April 2009, over 200 million people were registered as active users. Facebook is a mid stay available in German, English, French and 21 other languages.
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim - YouTube invented the solution for distributing video Youtube were by former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley
(1977), Steven Chen
(1978) and
Jaed Karim (1979) 15 Founded in February 2005. , the former colleagues and friends to have to send gernevt any video clips by e-mail and always demanch developed the idea of a video platform to upload the video and make it accessible to others. The makers of Youtube invested the capital raised in the Infrasturk clever, technical development and less in advertising. Youtube is the best example of viral marketing. Functions such as sending Links to the videos, or the light embedded in a website or social media platforms Youtube made popular. The potential also realized very soon Google and bought the video portal for EUR 1.31 billion (in stock).