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Founders on the Net
Founders on the Net Creation Creator/Founder Year World Wide Web Tim Berners Lee 1989 Wikipedia Jimmy Wales 2001 Orkut Orkut Büyükkökten 2004 Face...
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| Creation | Creator/Founder | Year |
|---|---|---|
| World Wide Web | Tim Berners Lee | 1989 |
| Wikipedia | Jimmy Wales | 2001 |
| Orkut | Orkut Büyükkökten | 2004 |
| Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. | 2004 | |
| Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass | 2006 | |
| Wikileaks | Julian Assange | 2006 |
| Hotmail | Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith | 1996 |
| Larry Page and Sergey Brin | 1998 | |
| Kosmix | Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman | 2005 |
| Paypal | Ken Howery, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, Luke Nosek, Peter Thiel | 1998 |
| Brian Acton and Jan Koum | 2009 | |
| Flipkart | Sachin and Binny Bansal | 2007 |
| YouTube | Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim | 2005 |
| Yahoo | David Filo & Jerry Yang | 1994 |
| Paytm | Vijay Shekhar Sharma | 2010 |