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Meet the Internet Innovators
Internet Innovators

To celebrate the launch of our all-new search technology, Windows Live shines a spotlight on a few other great innovations in cyberspace and looks at the innovators who made them possible.

MEET THE INNOVATORS

  • Tim Berners-Lee (Image © PA)Sir Tim Berners-Lee

    In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee introduced us to the concept of the 'Web' and changed the way we organised information forever

  • Steve Pankhurst co-founder of Friends Reunited (Image © PA Photos)Steve and Julie Pankhurst

    Social networking has become part of our every-day lives. Friends Reunited introduced the UK to this new phenomenon

  • Dr Paul V Mockapetris brought us the humble Domain nameDr Paul V. Mockapetris

    In 1983 Dr Paul V Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System, the man who wrote the internet address book

  • Discover the secret behind Wireless Communication (Image © PA Photos)Dr Andrew J. Viterbi

    The Viterbi Algorithm changed the face of communication forever and provided us with a clean, error-free, digital signal

  • ARPAnet made use of innovative packet switching technology(Image © PA/Uwe Lein)ARPANET

    In 1969 the first message was transmitted across ARPAnet - an early incarnation of what later became the Internet

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