[1] She is also credited for directing the world's first business to consumer Web site, which she did for Ty Inc., manufacturer of Beanie Babies.

[2] In effect, Beanie Babies evolved to become the world's first Internet sensation[3] and Ty Warner became a billionaire.

Lina Trivedi, is an Indian American who was born to a Gujarati-speaking Brahmin family in Chicago, Illinois.

Warner assigned her the task of writing all the Beanie Babies poems and designing the inside of more than 100 product tags.

[3] Later in 1995, Trivedi approached Warner to talk about a new development that existed on college campuses called the internet.

Warner was intrigued and he gave Trivedi free license to create a Web site using her judgment and skills.

[9] In 1996, Trivedi coordinated three private Boeing 747s to bring Beanie Babies to American retail locations in time for Easter.

As part of her campaign to engage audiences, she coordinated fans to guide the creation of the 100th Beanie Baby character through the Internet in 1996.

[8] Beanie Babies grew in popularity quicker than any other phenomenon prior to its time due to the instant nature of the Internet.

[14] She was portrayed as the first person to build a website for commercial purposes, as well as writing all the poems on the inside of Beanie Babies tags.

Her innovations included broadcasting snapshots of the Chicago skyline from the top of the Sears Tower through their web site.

[5] While leading her web design firm, Trivedi also participated on a team of technology and finance professionals that produced the world's first realtime processing credit card application.

[21] According to NBC, her inventions have been used to enable people to become authors by "taking the mechanics out of publishing so that writers can focus on the messages they are trying to convey".

As a result of the syndrome, Trivedi's daughter was born without a leg, missing fingers and lacked muscles on one side of her face.