Theo Mercer

Seven pioneers helped turn the Web from a CERN hypertext experiment into a portable, standardized, visual, global information system.

Seven language designers, standards editors, engine builders, and framework creators helped turn JavaScript into a global application platform.

Seven standards architects, implementers, testers, and educators helped evolve CSS from a 1994 proposal into the Web’s modern layout and presentation language.

Seven browser pioneers helped evolve the Web client from an editable hypertext viewer into a programmable, standards-driven application runtime.

Seven server and application-platform pioneers helped evolve Web serving from CERN httpd and NCSA HTTPd through Apache, nginx, and dynamic PHP applications.

Seven developers and advocates helped turn asynchronous JavaScript, JSON, and cross-browser toolkits into the rich Web application model.

Seven pioneers helped evolve Internet and Web search from Archie and WebCrawler to Google, HITS, Lucene, and Nutch.

Seven protocol designers and standards engineers helped evolve HTTP from the Web’s original transfer mechanism into HTTP/1.1 and multiplexed HTTP/2.

Seven architects and educators helped transform REST from a description of Web architecture into a practical vocabulary for designing interoperable Web APIs.

Seven inventors, standards editors, and advocates helped keep HTML evolving as an interoperable language instead of fragmenting into browser-specific dialects.