10 famous Internet technologies and their unknown inventors.

Lead: Pingdom, a Swedish IT services company, published an article in Monday that introduced ten famous technologies and inventors in the history of Internet development, including GIF, RSS, Ping, @ symbols and smiley faces. But they all share a common trait: although the technology they invent is already well known, they are not well-known.

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Thanks to the Father's day in Sweden, we are thinking of launching a project that will introduce people who have made outstanding contributions to the Internet. And there are some obvious candidates, including the inventor Winter Sove of TCP/IP (Vint Cerf) and Bob Karn (Bob Kahn), Van Neva Bush (Vannevar), who conceived the many concepts of the Internet, and the Teide Nielsen of hypertext ideas ( Ted Nelson), the World Wide Web inventor Berners-Lee (Tim Berners) and Mosaic browser's joint inventor Anderson (Marc andreeseen).

But why should we introduce these well-known people? That's because we think it makes more sense to introduce some of the less well-known contributors in the history of Internet development. The contributions of these people have also had a significant impact on us, but they have not been honoured in the same way as the others. So, while this doesn't exactly fit the theme of Father's Day, let's review it together.

1, GIF: Steve Wilheit (Steve wilhite)

The full name of the GIF is the "Graphics Interchange Format" (Graphics Interchange Format), which has long been a standard image format for the Internet. How can we forget the vivid animated pictures on the Web page? This picture format was invented by Wilheit in 1987, and he worked for CompuServe. Although GIF has been largely replaced by JPG and PNG, many people still think that GIF may be resurrected.

2. RSS: Dave Winner (Dave Winer)

There is some controversy about this problem, so we dare to presume to do so. RSS is the abbreviation for "Simple Information aggregation" (Real simplicity Syndication), with some data showing that the technology originated in RDF, while the first version of RSS was made by Netscape's Dan Liby (Dan Libby) and Ramanassen Guha (Ramanathan V). Guha) was invented in 1999. But we think that the specific to the popularization of RSS, no one has contributed more than winner, so we will choose him as the inventor of the RSS.

3. Ping: Mack Mousse (Mike Muuss)

Ping is a very simple tool that Moose invented in 1983 and contains only 1000 lines of code. But this tool is now used by almost all operating systems and is a valuable tool for all network administrators around the world.

4, IE1.0: Thomas Rilden (Thomas Reardon)

Like many other Microsoft products, ie originated from outside the company. IE1.0 is the revision of Spyglass Mosaic, a product that Microsoft authorized from the Spyglass office in 1994. At the time, Reardon, who worked for Microsoft, developed IE1.0 using Spyglass's code and launched the product in 1995. Although IE's recent market share has slipped, the product is still being used by more than 40% of the world's computers, according to StatCounter, an Internet traffic monitoring agency.

5, @ symbol: Rey Tomlinson (Ray Tomlinson)

In 1971, Tomlinson needed a character to differentiate between the host name and the username in the e-mail address. So he looked at the keyboard and found the @ symbol, and took it as an "obvious" choice. Today, the symbol is beyond email and is widely used in areas such as social networks and forums.

6, smiley face: Scott Falman (Scott Fahlman)

We should probably call it "smiley face," but just using the "smiley face" two words is enough to show how important it is in our culture. Fireman September 19, 1982 at Carnegie Mellon University's message board suggested that you can use the ":-)" on behalf of joking, if not joking use of ":-(." The wave then went out of hand, and today's most text-digital forms of communication use these expressions.

7. Intelligent Modem: Dale Hayser (Dale Heatherington)

For a long time, smart modems are essential devices for people to surf the internet. Even today, when broadband is widespread, many people still need to dial to get online. The first intelligent Modem was born in 1981 with a processing speed of 1 bits per second. His inventor was Hayes at the time at the Hayes microcomputer products company.

8. BIND: Terry, Pant, Rigg and Zhou Songnin

The full name of BIND is the "Berkeley Internet Domain Name" (Berkeley Internet Name domain), which is probably one of the most important software you use every day, but you know nothing about it. This is a widely used DNS server software. In a August 2010 survey of the measurement Factory, the Internet performance testing company, bind accounted for 34.2% of the nearly 800,000 hosts surveyed. Douglas Trie (Douglas Terry) of the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Pante (Mark painter), David Rigg (David riggle) and Zhou Songnin (Songnian, transliteration) jointly invented bind.

9, PHP: Rasmus Loedorf (Rasmus Lerdorf)

PHP is now fifth in the Tiobe programming Community Index programming language rankings, but no matter how ranked, it is undeniable that this has become a very popular scripting language, used by many websites. Loedorf invented the original PHP in 1995, and later wrote a second edition.

10, Intel 4004: Fakin, Hough, Maazel and Masatoshi Shima

Intel 4004 is not directly related to the Internet, but it has a great impact on the development of network technology. As the world's first single chip microprocessor, we can now find its direct and indirect descendants in PCs, smartphones and tablets.

This chip was designed by Intel's Federick Fakin (Federico Fagin), Teide Hoff (Ted Hoff) and Stanley Mazers (Stanley Mazor) and Busicom Masatoshi. 4004 was launched in 1971 with 2,300 transistors built in. By contrast, the Ivy Bridge processor that Intel will launch in 2012 will have 1.4 billion transistors built into it.

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