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Woz To Be Immortalized In Wax

Posted by timothy on from the but-wax-can-suffocate dept.

mikejuk writes: Having already made wax figures of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, the Madame Tussauds museum recently put out a call for nominations for who should be next, with the stipulation that the nominees have a connection with the Bay Area. The shortlist was then whittled down to ten, including Google co-founder Larry Page, Tesla's Elon Musk, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo. Any of them would look great as wax figures, but outcome of the public vote was a clear winner — Steve Wozniak. Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco and an ideal setting for a selfie.

72 comments

  1. got my hopes up for a moment there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When I read that they made a wax figure of Zuckerberg I thought maybe that meant he had died and I missed the news.

    But it turns out you don't have to be dead before they make them.

  2. Don't forget the No Smoking signs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Or, never mind the weather, because when the Woz expels gas, it's a nasty storm.

  3. Immortalized? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Unless somebody decides to light the wick sticking out of the top of his head. jk, I think it's great. This is right up there with being knighted.

  4. Fitting by garyoa1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He's the real man behind apple. After all, he's the creator. Jobs only marketed it. (But he did do that well.)

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    1. Re:Fitting by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

      Jobs also put himself in the place of the end users and had the power to request/reject features at will.

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    2. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Hopefully they'll be far enough apart that you can easily get a picture with just Woz.

    3. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Sorry, they're going to have the Steve figure raping Woz.

    4. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Can they fit in a a statue of Dennis Ritchie too?

    5. Re:Fitting by pr0t0 · · Score: 1

      The did Zuck before Woz? Are you f-ing kidding me?

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    6. Re:Fitting by uncqual · · Score: 1

      Although, the reality is that Woz gets the last laugh in this case.

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    7. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yes! Honoring technical genius rather than the-business-guy-who-happened-to-be-around. Nice!

    8. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Agreed it's unbelievable. Herr judenberg probably paid to be first.

    9. Re:Fitting by neostorm · · Score: 1

      The pre-internet generations still don't fully grasp what they've lived through, and the post-internet generations will never know the window in human history they missed. I'm just glad they're recognizing some of the unsung heroes while those of us who've lived through it are still alive.

      So don't expect much going forward. :)

    10. Re:Fitting by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful

      He's the real man behind apple.

      He was in 1985. By 2005, Jobs probably had done his fair share.

      Woz was still much more respectable, though.

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    11. Re:Fitting by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 2, Informative

      Yeah, that's a total crock of shit.

      Woz was a genius -- from using the 6502 to read floppies and do the decoding in software, to the whole design of the Apple such as getting 6-colors @ 280x192 with 8K that normally would take over 13K. Fuckerberg has done jack shit of inspiring people to get into hardware or software, aside from dropping out of college (Harvard.) He was extremely lucky Harvard's own social program didn't take off. Zuckerberg admits: If I wasn't the CEO of Facebook, I'd be at Microsoft

      A wax figure of Dennis Ritchie, the co-inventor of C, you know who influenced thousands of programmers those who _built_ the systems that everyone uses today would make sense. Fuck Zuckerberg and him profiting off people's data.

    12. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Why modded troll? He died almost the same time as Steve Jobs. He was about 10 trillion more times important to the computer industry.

    13. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Thank you, I never knew about this man....
      Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language, a key developer of the Unix operating system, and co-author of the book The C Programming Language, and was the 'R' in K&R (a common reference to the book's authors Kernighan and Ritchie). Ritchie worked together with Ken Thompson, the scientist credited with writing the original Unix; one of Ritchie's most important contributions to Unix was its porting to different machines and platforms.[8] They were so influential on Research Unix that Doug McIlroy later wrote, "The names of Ritchie and Thompson may safely be assumed to be attached to almost everything not otherwise attributed.

    14. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Views on computing[edit]
      In an interview from 1999, Dennis Ritchie clarifies that he sees Linux and BSD operating systems as a continuation of the basis of the Unix operating system, and as derivatives of Unix:[10]

      I think the Linux phenomenon is quite delightful, because it draws so strongly on the basis that Unix provided. Linux seems to be among the healthiest of the direct Unix derivatives, though there are also the various BSD systems as well as the more official offerings from the workstation and mainframe manufacturers.

      In the same interview, he states that he views both Unix and Linux as "the continuation of ideas that were started by Ken and me and many others, many years ago."[

    15. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's a tourist trap. Who do you expect an average tourist to recognize and take a picture with?

      Heck, I don't even know how Dennis Ritchie looks, and I'm a card carrying geek who writes C code :-/

    16. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      And he rejected stuff that end users wanted. But sometimes the devs snuck them in anyway. As in the original Mac was not expandable despite being short on memory.

    17. Re:Fitting by antdude · · Score: 1

      I wonder why he is not creating these days. :(

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    18. Re:Fitting by flaming+error · · Score: 1

      Probably he is, quietly. He's never really been a publicity seeker.

    19. Re:Fitting by antdude · · Score: 1

      Has he released any recent creations? I haven't seen or read any yet.

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    20. Re:Fitting by tlhIngan · · Score: 5, Informative

      He's the real man behind apple. After all, he's the creator. Jobs only marketed it. (But he did do that well.)

      False, if Jobs and Woz didn't get together, Apple would never have happened. This is really a case where the two together were more than the sum of their parts.

      You have to remember Woz was your typical socially awkward geek who worked quietly and did things behind the scenes. When he designed the Apple 1, or rather bits and pieces of it, he was working at HP. He designed the video terminal first just as an exercise (just a bog standard video terminal that got him to play with NTSC signals), then decided to add on a CPU board to give ti "smarts" - so what you had was a standalone computer connected to a video terminal, and there you had the Apple 1. But that's it, Woz was happy to just let it be.

      However, given Jobs and Woz's close relationship, Jobs realized what Woz has done and basically realized the potential.of that invention, thus turning this oddball CPU board with video terminal contraption into the Apple 1. Woz then went to HP about commercializing it, and HP rejected it because they feared allowing users to use any old TV would result in all sorts of problems.

      Basically you needed the engineering wisdom Woz has, and couple it with the business acuity that Jobs has in order to create a successful company. Heck it was Jobs' idea to sell blue boxes - after he read the article in Esquire. Jobs basically went to Woz and asked him to design a box, and Woz made a clever design and Jobs sold it.

      Alone, each wouldn't have accomplished much - Woz would've just been Yet Another Anonymous Engineer with a lot of clever circuits at home collecting dust. Jobs would've just been a dissatisfied manager. But because both got together did they make history together.

    21. Re:Fitting by OrangeTide · · Score: 1

      Oh yea? Has Zuckerberg ever been on Dancing with the Stars ?

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    22. Re:Fitting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Woz seems to spend most of his time helping our community.

    23. Re:Fitting by BadPirate · · Score: 1

      You sound like a real informed expert on the subject.

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  5. Better than taxadermy I guess. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What a creepy honor.

    1. Re:Better than taxadermy I guess. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Taxadermy being skinning people alive as an IRS officer? Sounds fun, actually...

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  6. Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Among a list of men who built their companies from the ground up, we get a CEO who is just maintaining an established one? I know its PC, but WTF?!

    1. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't worry, I'm sure the usual crowd will be in here to explain about the "glass cliff" or whatever and explain how it totally isn't her fault and that we're all sexist pigs for thinking Woz is a much more important figure than Mayer or whoever the fuck Sandborn is. (No, seriously, the only person from Facebook I can name is good ol' Zuck, who the fuck is Sandborn?)

    2. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, she is maintaining Yahoo!, a business that really has no business still existing.

    3. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      She's responsible for Google's early simple and unfestooned search page layout, with a simple search box and little else. She was one of the earliest employees at Google. That was in a day when competing search engines were throwing up all kinds of crap on your screen, from ads, to animated things in huge cluttered layouts.

      That's a more important contribution than being CEO of yahoo.

    4. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you mean she was the manager who took credit for it?

    5. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      No. She was promoted to a manager later, but she was hired as an engineer and was an engineer when doing that work.

    6. Re:Marissa Mayer? by swb · · Score: 1

      I want her as a real doll, not a wax figure.

    7. Re:Marissa Mayer? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have to admit, whoever came up with that layout deserves a lot of credit.

      Reminds me of the parody of the "Microsoft ipod" packaging, which even if you didn't know, clearly was the work of anonymous MS employees:

      http://www.wimp.com/microsoftipod/

    8. Re:Marissa Mayer? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

      RealDoll2
      Michelle - Face A

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    9. Re:Marissa Mayer? by operagost · · Score: 1

      Especially when she's not a good one. She has instituted employee-hostile policies (killing remote workers), then feigned compassion by throwing back a bone (maternity leave extension). Like most CEOs, she implements bad policies and her response is, "everyone else is doing it", which is the opposite of leadership.

      There must be a better female CEO out there.

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  7. What about Carly Fiorina? by Type44Q · · Score: 4, Funny

    What about Carly Fiorina? I mean, the whole point of a wax museum is to give people the creeps, right??

    1. Re:What about Carly Fiorina? by sunderland56 · · Score: 2

      A wax sculpture of Carly Fiorina would be hugely popular - if it had a wick.

    2. Re:What about Carly Fiorina? by o_ferguson · · Score: 1

      Or a "Greek opening."

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    3. Re:What about Carly Fiorina? by tnk1 · · Score: 1

      It would be redundant. She doesn't need to be in wax to give people the creeps.

  8. in wax you say? by Limitless_Potential · · Score: 0

    he's not dead! he's getting better

  9. Woz already waxed ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... blew up like a balloon.

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  10. Milk? by o_ferguson · · Score: 1

    What about that f'n Milk guy? They made a movie about him, but I didn't see it. I presume he did something amazing. Enough with all these fucking capitalist pig dogs.

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    1. Re:Milk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What about that f'n Milk guy? They made a movie about him, but I didn't see it. I presume he did something amazing. Enough with all these fucking capitalist pig dogs.

      They have enough statues of your idol, Lenin, in the former Soviet Union.

    2. Re:Milk? by o_ferguson · · Score: 1

      In fact, they have his actual body! In Soviet Russia, wax museums you!

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  11. which version? by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 1

    I was going to ask it'll be the current version of early 80s version...

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    1. Re:which version? by NixieBunny · · Score: 1

      If it's the current version, he'll need a Nixie watch. I know just the guy to supply that. (I already sent one to the folks making the movie.)

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  12. Wax figure no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Melissa Meyer as a wax figurine? I don't think so... as a "Real Doll (TM)", though, hell yeah.

    1. Re:Wax figure no... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oddly, you're the second person I've seen who said that.

      You'll excuse me for not agreeing. I prefer my sex dolls to be significantly less shallow.

  13. Be carefull when visiting by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

    Woz might be standing there himself, to jump on unsuspecting visitors.

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  14. SF by ChrisMaple · · Score: 1

    Nothing says San Francisco like Emperor Norton.

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  15. Decline Woz Hurry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Inside document indicate that the Woz wax figure will measure 1 mm in height and beside his figure a large magnifying glass that admirers outside the display will still be able to see Woz and appreciate his stature relative to the figure of Jobs.

    Woz may really want to reconsider what the Museum will do to him in the eyes of the public.

  16. Myspace by MHPanruka · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Tom from Myspace deserve his own wax figure before Zuckerberg?

  17. That some new programming language? by AdamStarks · · Score: 1

    It's so hard to keep up with these things nowadays.

  18. I've Seen The Museum in London by KermodeBear · · Score: 1

    And if you ever find yourself there, or near any display of these wax sculptures, I highly recommend you take the time to see them. They are amazing works of art. If you have children with you, it can be a great history and cultural experience, too.

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    1. Re:I've Seen The Museum in London by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

      Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and um, screaming. - Dr. Ian Malcolm

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  19. Wax != Immortal by nicoleb_x · · Score: 1

    Wax is hardly immortalizing. There is this place near Keystone, South Dakota that has some few people reasonably immortalized! Woz isn't (yet) one of them.

  20. What Year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Will they use Woz from the 1980s or Woz from the 2000s ?

    1. Re:What Year? by tnk1 · · Score: 1

      They will be using Woz from the Future.

      Don't laugh, he's nearly done inventing Mr. Fusion.

    2. Re:What Year? by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 1

      When we wax Woz, we will wonder which was waxed.

  21. Still by PNutts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Once his statue is complete Woz will be on display next to Steve Jobs in San Francisco

    Still a better love story than Twilight.

  22. Encasing him in amber... by PDX · · Score: 1

    Encasing him in amber would allow scientists millions of years in the future to make use of his brilliant genetics to rebuild apple.

    1. Re:Encasing him in amber... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Encasing him in amber would allow scientists millions of years in the future to make use of his brilliant genetics to rebuild apple.

      Rounded corners? Let's hope the human race isn't this gullible ever again.

  23. The whole ball of wax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's gonna take a lot of wax. Just sayin', he's not a small guy.

  24. Not a cost-effective choice by ctrl-alt-canc · · Score: 1

    Waxing Steve Jobs would have required at least three times less wax than Woz.

  25. Who? by gsslay · · Score: 1

    Isn't part of the deal with waxworks is you're supposed to be know what the people look like? So you recognise their uncanny likeness in wax?

    Steve Wozniak is the only one of those suggested I'd have any hope of recognising. Heads of IT companies are not really people I need to see or remember. I'd consider myself doing well if I recognise the name. It's their product that matters, not their faces.

  26. which vintage woz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I hope they use the 1983 era Wozniak as the model. He looked great!

    http://www.vhnd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Steve_Wozniak_David_Lee_Roth.jpg