Pioneers of the Internet
Vint Cerf: The father of the Internet
He is widely known as the father of the Internet for designing TCP/IP which essentially laid the architectural foundation of modern internet. Cerf worked as an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1972 to 1976 where he conducted research on packet network interconnection protocols and co-designed the TCP/IP protocol with Bob Kahn
Tim Berners-lee: Inventor of World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a software engineer at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Today he is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and, since 2016, at the University of Oxford.
