Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jerry Yang ( Founder of Yahoo )


Born in 1968 on the November 6th is the man called c. Orphaned at two years, Jerry was raised by his widowed mother an English teacher by profession. Jerry Yang is a name that is synonymous with the most popular internet site Yahoo.

Yahoo is deemed as the highest internet traffic network. It is believed that all internet users in the world have a yahoo mail account although lately we have seen the influx of other email service providers like msn, g mail, and a host of others, but the most traditional and most used is yahoo mail.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, co-inventors of TCP/IP protocol

We live in a period of time where some would go crazy without Internet but few of us really know about the history. One of the them that made all this possible is Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, who together made of their many of their own notable accomplishments and it was their partnership that drove the creation of the TCP/IP protocol as one of the core components of the Internet.   

TCP/IP = Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet.