(Edit: Question dates fudged to push it back in time)

Here’s a second question for the day to make up for the repeat one earlier this week, folks.

Identify this chap and why he shot to “fame” on the interwebs:

Cracked by Atul Mathew , Kal , Goyal , Rohan , Raghuvansh , username , udupendra , Jean Valjean , Mo and karthik.

Answer:

As Jean Valjean put it very succinctly, “Ted Stevens, Father of the intertubes”