30 Great Web Geeks

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This is our list of the top 30 web geeks, which we are defining as people whose technical or cultural contributions to the web have made it the place it is today.

Will #1 be katana-wielding hacker hero Richard Stallman? Will it be 4chan impresario moot? Will it be Digg duumviri Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson? Or will it be you? (Probably not, if you aren’t the founder of a multibillion-dollar enterprise.)

#30

Tim Westergren

As the founder and CEO of Pandora -- insert Avatar joke here -- Tim Westergren is at the helm of one of the most buzzed-about web radio services. Unlike many CEOs, Westergren isn't circumspect... Read on...

#29

Drew Curtis

Coastal elitists beware: Drew Curtis , the ringmaster of the aggregated funny headline circus that is Fark, runs his influential site from... Kentucky . In addition to culling weird and wacky... Read on...

#28

Jim Louderback

Whenever a media trend story to the effect of "will Internet TV kill traditional television?" bubbles up, you can be sure that Jim Louderback 's name will come up at some point. It's not... Read on...

#27

Know Your Meme

Kennyata Cheese , Chris Menning , Jamie Wilkinson , and Ellie Rountree are on a foolhardy question: to catalog every major meme on the Internet. As the editors of Rocketboom spinoff Know Your... Read on...

#26

David Karp

As the 23-year-old founder and CEO of Tumblr , David Karp has had to endure being called a " boy genius " for the bulk of his legally drinking life. Which isn't to say that's unwarranted:... Read on...

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