Sys-con has released their top 150 i-technology heroes who, according to their editors, columnists, commentators and readers, are responsible for the conception, building, maintenance and advancement of the internet, as well as modern computing as we know it. There are some real geniuses on this list, and while it’s too exhaustive for me to republish it here, I will name a few of the more popular ones. However, chances are only Brian and I will enjoy this post.

Here are some of the more recognizable mentions:

Tim Berners-Lee - Father of the World Wide Web
Sergey Brin - Co-founder of Google
Bill Gates - Chief Software Architect of Microsoft
Steve Jobs - CEO of Apple
Bob Metcalfe - Inventor of the Ethernet
Tim O’Reilly - Publisher, open source advocate
Dennis Ritchie - Creator of C and co-inventor of Unix
Dave Sifry - CEO of Technorati
Richard Stallman - Founder of GNU Project
Bjarne Stroustrup - Designer and original implementor of C++
Ken Thompson - Co-inventor of Unix
Linus Torvalds - Creator of Linux Kernel
Guido Van Rossum - Author of Python
Larry Wall - Author of Perl
Steve Wozniak - Co-founder of Apple
Jerry Yang - Co-founder of Yahoo!