I am sitting in the Austin, Texas airport on my way to Houston using WiFi. I decided to check the stock market and saw that Amazon was up $16 on great earnings news. This caused me to reflect on Internet history.

When you go back to the early 1990s and think of the beginnings of Internet hype and think of all the ups and downs for the Internet in the 90s and into this decade you have to conclude that Jeff Bezos of Amazon is indeed the one person who has accomplished the most (both critically and financially).

Think of all the barbs he faced about Amazon's model, financial questions, competition and more. But Bezos and Amazon overcame everything to be a dynamic online retailer and information provider and resource. In fact, it looks like things are getting better and better for Amazon.

Before ending this post, also think of Tim Berners-Lee - the creator of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee has to be the most selfless person of the last 100 years. The guy could have made billions but instead chose to remain a researcher and academic. He is known but largely forgotten by the financial press. He certainly deserves a Nobel Prize of some sort.