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The programmers, engineers, designers and founders whose work shaped how websites are built.
Entries
16 of 16 planned entries are published. New entries are added in batches, and every one is checked against its sources before it goes live.
- Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the web
- Robert Cailliau: Co-author of the 1990 web proposal
- Nicola Pellow: Wrote the line-mode browser
- Marc Andreessen: Mosaic and Netscape
- Brendan Eich: Creator of JavaScript
- Rasmus Lerdorf: Creator of PHP
- Håkon Wium Lie: Proposed CSS in 1994
- Bert Bos: Co-creator of CSS
- Vint Cerf: Co-designer of TCP/IP
- Jon Postel: Edited the RFCs and ran IANA
- Paul Mockapetris: Invented DNS in 1983
- Elizabeth Feinler: Ran the network's directory before DNS
- Jennifer Niederst Robbins: One of the first professional web designers
- Matt Mullenweg: Co-founder of WordPress
- John Resig: Creator of jQuery
- Ethan Marcotte: Coined responsive web design