As a Gen X I wondered, who was the first generation mass-programming? Who brought the internet from nimble beginnings to everyone? (Bezos being an early Gen X,

As a Gen X I wondered, who was the first generation mass-programming? Who brought the internet from nimble beginnings to everyone? (Bezos being an early Gen X, Brin & Page born in 1973 in the center of Gen X) - growing up in Europe at a time when the apocalypse felt near with new nuclear weapons (SS20/Pershing), dead rivers and dying forrests (the boomers left us).