[Air-L] Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North America

[Sue Thomas]

Thanks Carmel
Yes I did know that ICQ had Israeli origins and used to use it myself
back in the day  but had forgotten all about it.  Many thanks for the
reminder and the other tips too.
Best
Sue

-----Original Message-----
From: Carmel L. Vaisman [mailto:carmelv at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 March 2011 21:42
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; Sue Thomas
Subject: Re: Seeking info about famous internet people *not* from North
America 

Hi Sue, a few Israeli net celebs come to mind:



Yossi Vardi is kind of our Bill Gates, father of many startups, but the
most famous of them is his son's startup, Mirabillis (ICQ). Not many ppl
know today that instant messaging was invented by a few Israeli boys and
then sold to AOL. they're still a myth here.

Ehud Tenenbaum is our Kevin Mittnick, the hacker nicknamed the Analyzer
who broke into the Pentagon, NASA computers and many more, last decade.
I think he works for the people he breached now after serving his
sentence: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Tenenbaum



Kutiman is a local musician and artist that became world famous for his
YouTube mixing project: http://thru-you.com/#/intro/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiman



I dunno if meme stars count as famous internet people, but we have Tasha
and Adi who started the "hey" lip-sync meme in 2005: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_CSo1gOd48 and if memes count you'll
find many meme stars outside North America. "Juan Mann" from the free
hugs campaign of 2006 is Australian, for instance.



Good Luck!



Carmel Vaisman
http://www.absolutecarmel.com
Twitter @carmelva