Zeus_Hunt Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 1) Tim Berners Lee -- Founder of the World Wide Web ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) Picture taken when microsoft was started ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers. He was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn't get any better name for his new company. So one day he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clcok today, our company's name will be anything he likes..." so at 5 o'clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time... so he keep the name of the company 'Apple Computers' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin®, founders of Google. Google was originally named 'Googol'. After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor... they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !... So they kept name as GOOGLE Really cool dudes :dance2: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard® of HP. Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. And the winner was NOT Bill... the winner was Dave. Fathers of my company :coolwink: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie® ,creators of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie) He later called it C. Now they really look so neardy :dance2: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce® ,founders of Intel. Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'. But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain... So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics... INTEL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8) Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems. Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him; Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it; and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer... SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax. Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10) Picture taken when INFY was started. This picture was found in the album of the clerk who took this picture...The picture was with that clerk only because it was his birthday and he just told everyone to stand together at one place to take a pic. He borrow a camera from his friend and as he can not tell any of his boss to take pic, so he took pic by himself... even it was his birthday. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erRor67 Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 nice post. :coolwink:Props. Really interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tensegg Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 I guess all these dudes spent so much time with computers cos there was no chance of them spending time with girls :D :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted June 17, 2005 Administrator Share Posted June 17, 2005 Just LOOK at them.... these guys couldnt get a girl even if they paid :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemonHead2089 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Just LOOK at them.... these guys couldnt get a girl even if they paid :)ouch. that was cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsane Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 it just shows how un-selfish they are. they pretty much dedicated their lives to advancing technology...can't hate on em for that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Lite Posted June 17, 2005 Administrator Share Posted June 17, 2005 ouch. that was coldWas also a joke :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicano666 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Was also a joke :)Still.....:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 Some of them are fine.... like Google guysBut Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie Bill Gate$ realllly look nerds to the core....it just shows how un-selfish they are. they pretty much dedicated their lives to advancing technology...can't hate on em for that :)Nsane has given us a thought for the day :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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