Tribute

Tribute to the Founding Fathers of the Web and the Net
What better way to start off Netty-gritty, than with a tribute to the Founding Fathers of the Web and the Net! - Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf

Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, is considered the inventor of the World Wide Web.
In 1980, while at CERN, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. With help from Robert Cailliau he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. He used similar ideas to those underlying the Enquire system to create the World Wide Web, for which he designed and built the first web browser and editor, and the first Web server.
Currently: Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees the continued development of WWW).

Vinton Gray Cerf is referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses.
Currently: Vint Cerf is the Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors. He is also the “Chief Internet Evangelist” at Google.