Who, officially, was the first Internet Millionaire?

smodha

13 years ago

My money would be on the guy who invented the Internet...

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OrangeBull 13 years ago

Originally Posted by smodha

My money would be on the guy who invented the Internet...

Possible, but I think they were a university researcher, so maybe not.
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retsced 13 years ago

Originally Posted by smodha

My money would be on the guy who invented the Internet...

I could be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that the inventor got very little money for his invention of the internet. It could be just a dream I had though. I always have weird dreams about people not making money off the internet
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WarGasm 13 years ago

Originally Posted by smodha

My money would be on the guy who invented the Internet...

You mean Al Gore?
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- JohnMcCabe 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WarGasm
  
  You mean Al Gore?
  
  That was my thought. I believe he was already a millionaire when he invented the Internet... :p:rolleyes:
  
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  Dave Espino 13 years ago
  
  Well, let's see... Some of the earliest (successful) companies online were AOL, Hotmail and the first domain name registrar, Network Solutions.
  
  I would think you might find the first Internet millionaire among the earliest companies. Yahoo was an early company, but eBay and Amazon came along just slightly later (1995 for eBay) in the historical timeline.
  
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  WikiWarrior 13 years ago
  
  Not sure if they were the official first but the two guys who, in 1997, developed a credit card application to take payments online, make a great story. It was turned into the film Middle Men in 2009:
  
  Middle Men (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
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Mousumi

13 years ago

Ah! No names so far?

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Jimmy Correy

13 years ago

well, what would you want to do with it when you know who was the first Internet Millionaire?

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Mousumi 13 years ago

Hi Jimmy!

I will get a topic for my blog, Success Stories.

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well, what would you want to do with it when you know who was the first Internet Millionaire?
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kojakeugenio

13 years ago

Maybe the owner of yahoo.

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Mousumi 13 years ago

Well, Yahoo was founded in 1995 by Jerry Yang and David Filo and they first sold their shares in 1996 raising $33.8 million. So they weren't millionaires before 1996.

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Maybe the owner of yahoo.
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Michael Ten 13 years ago

Originally Posted by kojakeugenio

Maybe the owner of yahoo.

That would not surprise me.
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Adie

13 years ago

Since I did not declare my earnings ever since I started decades ago, all records are false..

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Jimmy Correy

13 years ago

You want to write a success story of the first Internet Millionaire? I suggest you can listen to the success story of the warriors here. I believe they have many many stories to share with you.

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Mousumi

13 years ago

That would be great, Jimmy

But asking the Warriors to submit their Success Stories would be seen as a direct promotion of my blog and I might be banned for breaking the forum rules

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You want to write a success story of the first Internet Millionaire? I suggest you can listen to the success story of the warriors here. I believe they have many many stories to share with you.

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THK

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mousumi

That would be great, Jimmy

But asking the Warriors to submit their Success Stories would be seen as a direct promotion of my blog and I might be banned for breaking the forum rules

Not to mention the stories you will get will be just stories, from imagination, not based on facts

But I think reading about the first internet millionaire will be more interesting than any random millionaire. Sorry I can't be of any help but good luck with your search.

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Banned 13 years ago

Mousumi,

If I'm not mistaken, you may open a Warriors Looking To Hire thread and post your requirements for all those who would want to submit their success stories to your blog. You may want to consult one of our moderators just to be 100% sure if that does not violate any forum rules.

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That would be great, Jimmy

But asking the Warriors to submit their Success Stories would be seen as a direct promotion of my blog and I might be banned for breaking the forum rules

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Mousumi

13 years ago

By the way, Success Stories is the name of my blog. You can Google and have a look.

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Kadztheman

13 years ago

I know who was the first ebay millionaire!
however there was a guy selling pornography images who made millions

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Mousumi

13 years ago

Were Jerry Yang and David Filo the first Internet Millionaires?

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TheClarkey

13 years ago

I would of thought the first Internet Millionaires would of been software developers or hardware developers. In what sense are we talking about the "internet" here? I'm sure there were people who were creating servers who would of made a tonne of money before we got into the http realm of the internet. Then you would have ISP's... then I suppose the software developers would come in... Founders of Netscape, Microsoft with Internet Explorer etc...

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Mousumi

13 years ago

Well, anybody who used Internet to make millions...It includes ISPs or the people who helped Internet spread across the world.

Thanks for drawing my attention to some hidden aspects of the Internet. Well, honestly speaking, I was looking for somebody, say the likes of Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon etc.

Things seem pretty confusing to me now

Originally Posted by TheClarkey

I would of thought the first Internet Millionaires would of been software developers or hardware developers. In what sense are we talking about the "internet" here? I'm sure there were people who were creating servers who would of made a tonne of money before we got into the http realm of the internet. Then you would have ISP's... then I suppose the software developers would come in... Founders of Netscape, Microsoft with Internet Explorer etc...

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rob19028

13 years ago

My guess is Jim Goodnight...he invented something called email for NC State...they said it was stupid...of course they tried to sue him 10 yrs later when they figured out what it was....but it was done in the early days when it was only universities linking their libraries on unix.

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perry strickland

13 years ago

your found yourself a great topyc i will defenetly read your blog

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Dan Curtis

13 years ago

Mousimi,

I can't be sure, but it is possible that it is Leo Beranek or Richard Bolt of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman.

Their company designed and built the equipment that was used to send the first message over the first internet network.

So, the question would be how much money did they receive for that development work.

In any event they were arguably the earliest to generate income from the internet, and their company is fantastically successful, so they would certainly make an interesting article.

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Mousumi

13 years ago

Thanks Dan!

I am doing all my bit to draft it all into one article. The information will certainly help me a lot

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Mousimi,

I can't be sure, but it is possible that it is Leo Beranek or Richard Bolt of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman.

Their company designed and built the equipment that was used to send the first message over the first internet network.

So, the question would be how much money did they receive for that development work.

In any event they were arguably the earliest to generate income from the internet, and their company is fantastically successful, so they would certainly make an interesting article.

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Amandasimmons

13 years ago

Mousumi, you should go with the suggestion of Dan. Richard Bolt should be regarded as the first Internet Millionaire. I did my research as well....Thanks for broadening my horizon

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Mousimi,

I can't be sure, but it is possible that it is Leo Beranek or Richard Bolt of the company Bolt, Beranek and Newman.

Their company designed and built the equipment that was used to send the first message over the first internet network.

So, the question would be how much money did they receive for that development work.

In any event they were arguably the earliest to generate income from the internet, and their company is fantastically successful, so they would certainly make an interesting article.

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MarkBradley

13 years ago

Ones you find the first one start you next article on the next internet millionair.

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dsouravs

13 years ago

is it the domain registrars?

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DubDubDubDot 13 years ago

I don't know who it was, but if I had to guess what they were selling I'd say porn. The first ecommerce site to accept credit cards was a porn site. You'd probably have to ask someone who knows a lot about that industry for the details.
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go4glory

13 years ago

My bet would be on the first e-commerce website owner/developer. He/She would be a millionaire for sure.

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goindeep

13 years ago

Well there you go, you learn something new everyday.

That is funny. Some people still think the Internet had an "inventor". Lol

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Nate Simms 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrei Rotariu

That is funny. Some people still think the Internet had an "inventor". Lol

I am getting a kick out of this too. I cannot believe that amount of people who do not know the history of the Internet.
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jeskola

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrei Rotariu

Well there you go, you learn something new everyday.

That is funny. Some people still think the Internet had an "inventor". Lol

I believe the internet was a military 'invention' way back in the 60's - remember hearing in case of nuclear war so communication could be continued regardless of outposts being taken out.

The World wide web had an inventor by the name of Tim Berners-Lee. I don't think he made much out of the original invention but i would imagine now he has probably made a decent fortune out of books and public speaking about it.

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Nate Simms

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jeskola

I believe the internet was a military 'invention' way back in the 60's - remember hearing in case of nuclear war so communication could be continued regardless of outposts being taken out.

The "nuclear war scenario" is a complete urban myth in the context of the Internet's development.

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DotComBum

13 years ago

I think it's hard to know since nobody has ever claimed he or she is the 1st person to earn million dollars on the Internet, just my thoughts.

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Jemtrum

Banned 13 years ago

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Palusko

13 years ago

Modem manufacturers? Internet Providers? People like Id Software that started the whole online gaming boom?

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Green Moon

13 years ago

It really depends on what you mean by the Internet. Before the World Wide Web and hypertext markup, the Internet was mostly non-commercial, so the only ones making money were the equipment manufacturers and somewhat later, some ISPs which included CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy.

My pick for the first Internet millionaire in the post-www Internet that we think of today would be Marc Andreesen, the co-author of the Mosaic browser. He may not have really been the first but he was certainly one of the most visible. Today his fortune, pegged by Forbes in March, 2012, at $600 million pales in comparison to some of the modern Internet billionaires, but his story is much more interesting in its breadth and depth of participation in the Internet over the last two decades.

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Alexyew

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Mousumi

Dear Warriors,
Please help me on this. I went through various sources but got conflicting reports. There are several names claiming to be the first Internet Millionaires. :confused::confused::confused:

Hi,

This is an unknown answer.

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Tony Dean

13 years ago

If you mean the first INTERNET MARKETER to be a millionaire, it was John Reese a respected member of this forum since it started way back when. His recording of the event in a swank hotel over a weekend of setting a cron job on the server to allow people to buy his course went live and the dollar amounts on a calculator at the side of the screen just rolled as though it would not stop. Some of the older members will remember that event, it hit the fan, he made the first million dollars that weekend that any marketers ever made.

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13 years ago

I was thinking it was the kid who came up with earthlink.

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Banned 13 years ago

Wasn't it Winthorpe Crabblebottom? I believe he invested some capital in Burik when they first started out. The owners of Burik provided some start up capital for yahoo

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TollFreeService 13 years ago

Fools,

I believe it was Barbra Streisand who was the first internet millionaire.
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Rose Anderson

13 years ago

I'm pretty sure this is how Christian Grey made all his money...

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hellohellosharp

13 years ago

Probably some of the ISP companies.

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Dames Jean

13 years ago

Benjamin Franklin

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ramsfir

13 years ago

I think perhaps the guy who invented ebay, that was a while ago....its quite a debateable question as there is no one who was documented or been given a price for being the first person so make a million online. Just like graham bell wasnt the first person to make the phone, but another person in italy or somewhere made it same time aswell....so i would certainly say its gonna be hard to figure out, but with some in depth research you might find approx. the first millioanaire. Good luck finding anyways

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bwh1

13 years ago

Can't remember his name but he still owe me 30k :-)

I heard once a story from a guy which was the first who launched a website which was nothing more then a page with 1 million grey pixels.

He then offered to everybody advertising space, selling 1 pixel for $1 dollar.

As this was a totally crazy thing, the site got a HUGE press and traffic and he sold his 1 million pixels fast, and got his 1 Million U$.

Can't remember his name tough.

G.

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