"Tech Heroes" From Ada Lovelace to Jamie Z

An anonymous reader writes "The Web 2.0 Journal has launched a search for what it calls "the all-time heroes of i-Technology" (its own shorthand for 'Internet technologies'), reaching as far back as to The Countess of Lovelace, though whether or not Ada Lovelace is truly the first programmer is not discussed. As an exercise in reminding ourselves whose shoulders we are standing on when hurtlng towards the 21st-century, richer Web it's not a bad start. Naturally there are sins of omission..."

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well

[macadamia_harold]

The Web 2.0 Journal has launched a search for what it calls "the all-time heroes of i-Technology"

In the search for heroes, they should talk to a Mr. Mohinder Suresh. I hear he has a list.

Re:well

[amrust]

Are YOU on the list?

Naturally there are sins of omission...

[antifoidulus]

Yeah, like no CowboyNeal option!

Woaaah

[Anonymous Coward]

Ad gangbang!!!!!

I can't believe it, gazillion ads on one page (they topped tom's hardware)

Ouch!

[JamesTRexx]

when hurtlng towards the 21st-century, richer Web

I think I'll stick to plain HTML 4.0.1 if web 2.0 is going to hurt that much.

Re:They forgot one

[Anonymous Coward]

So he was the first person to put pr0n on a computer?

from their list

[nomadic]

Andy Hertzfield: Eazel developer and Macintosh forefather

Jean Ichbiah: Creator of Ada

Grace Murray Hopper: Developer of the first compiled high level programming language, COBOL

Jordan Hubbard: One of the creators of FreeBSD; currently a manager of Apple's Darwin project

Jean D Ichbiah: Principal designer, Ada language (1977)

Ken Iverson: Inventor of APL, later J

I've never used ADA, is it really so good that its inventor had to be listed twice in the same list?

Proof that global warming is getting serious

[Anonymous Coward]

By the time I logged in to read a Slashdot article about the creators of the Internet, not a single Al Gore joke had been posted.

Re:irony of the sites name

[jpardey]

Me too. I decided to see if it was doing anything or not, so I pop open the sidebar and see it had already blocked about 20 items! I added an exception for the video ads, but I hope I never go to that site again.

Re:i-Technology?

[freeze128]

Well, what if you were an optometrist?

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