Real heroes of web revolution
Business Standard|March 13, 2023
The tech creators, or the ones who made billions?
AJIT BALAKRISHNAN
Real heroes of web revolution

Just the other day, gazing from my home balcony at the distant hills of Raigad, I started wondering again about a question resounding in my head: Who are the true heroes who created the internet and web revolution, which has made life so much easier for humanity across all aspects of life? As usual I couldn't get a clear answer, so I thought I'd check with my recently acquired pal, ChatGPT.

"Tim Berners Lee, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos...," came the instant answer.

I was tempted to hurl on the floor my mobile phone which had brought me the ChatGPT answer! Was ChatGPT, except for the name of Tim Berners Lee, also falling for the Wall Street/Dalal Street type hype which glorifies the ones who make money and not the true innovators? I made a mental note to create a Wikipedia page as soon as possible with the true history of the technological evolutions that resulted in the web revolution because that would help poor ChatGPT get its answers on this topic right because that is where the poor thing usually gets its answers from.

In the meantime, dear reader, here is the real truth, or at least what I consider the truthful answer to this question.

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