I found this interesting.
Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock - it was shareware and almost nobody paid for it but he enabled millions of people to get on the internet for the very first time.
A couple of people have tracked him down and opened a paypal account for one of the people who made this whole internet thing possible for the masses.
Linkage here -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
and if you're interested in the /. thread -
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03...e-Little-Money
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