[dirkgently]

If we wait long enough, we will also find out that Steve Jobs invented practically everything around us - the bits, the bytes, the electricity, atoms and molecules. Hack, he was the first fish out of the water that gave raise to the man kind millions of years later.

All Hail the King Jobs.

[hkmurakami]

he did invent the personal computer right? ... right?

;)

[jacquesm]

sorry.

http://www.murple.net/gallery/v/what/informationage/img_0030...

[saraid216]

> Hack

1) I like this typo.

2) I can't imagine how you made it. Dvorak keyboard?

[KC8ZKF]

Two bucks says #2 was auto-correct. Hack is a proper English word, heck is not.

[orblivion]

A is in the same position, Dvorak or qwerty.

[Draco6slayer]

Tha a is raelly closa to tha e on tha dvorek kayboerd, end it mekas for e mora common misteka. ;)

[Dewie]

Maybe popular history will remember him as the Thomas Edison of computers.

[spiritplumber]

I'd be okay with this. So, who is the Nikola Tesla of computers?

[6d0debc071]

Douglas Engelbart? He made a great many of the underlying ideas we use for using computers. Ironically he only seems to get remembered for the mouse.

The mother of all demos: http://youtu.be/JfIgzSoTMOs

Is well worth watching for a historical perspective if you haven't seen it already.

[alayne]

J.C.R. Licklider is an interesting character in computer development history, particularly for his involvement in the development of timesharing, networks, and personal computing.

[oscargrouch]

Alan Turing? Von Neumann?

The minds from the beginning of the century XX were the best.. even about computing.. invent things from virtually nothing is pretty hard

[paul_f]

Alan Kay