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The programmers, engineers, designers and founders whose work shaped how websites are built.

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1 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 (coming soon): Co-author of the 1990 web proposal
  • Nicola Pellow (coming soon): Wrote the line-mode browser
  • Marc Andreessen (coming soon): Mosaic and Netscape
  • Brendan Eich (coming soon): Creator of JavaScript
  • Rasmus Lerdorf (coming soon): Creator of PHP
  • Håkon Wium Lie (coming soon): Proposed CSS in 1994
  • Bert Bos (coming soon): Co-creator of CSS
  • Vint Cerf (coming soon): Co-designer of TCP/IP
  • Jon Postel (coming soon): Edited the RFCs and ran IANA
  • Paul Mockapetris (coming soon): Invented DNS in 1983
  • Elizabeth Feinler (coming soon): Ran the network's directory before DNS
  • Jennifer Niederst Robbins (coming soon): One of the first professional web designers
  • Matt Mullenweg (coming soon): Co-founder of WordPress
  • John Resig (coming soon): Creator of jQuery
  • Ethan Marcotte (coming soon): Coined responsive web design

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