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Linus Torvalds. An open source operating system that serves as the backbone of a vast majority of the servers in the world.
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Sony. The Playstation was the first gaming console to introduce 3D graphics and use CDs as the main mode of storing games.
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Nintendo. The Nintendo 64 introduced 3D graphics and instead of using CDs, continued to use cartridges, which at that time, which allowed games to load faster.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google redefined search engines and began targeted marketing through the use of collected user data.
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Sega. The Dreamcast gaming console had a built in modem which allowed connections to an online portal. This was several years before Xbox progressed online functionality to what is now Xbox Live.