Ken Thompson. Dennis Ritchie. Jack Kilby. Robert Noyce. Ed Roberts. Gary
Kildall. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak. Bill Gates, Paul Allen. Richard Stallman.
DEC VAX Cray-1, X-MP, Y-MP Altair 8800 Apple 1, ][ TRS-80 Alto Lisa, Macintosh PC, PC/XT, PC/AT
Seymour Cray Ken Thompson Dennis Ritchie Jack Kilby Robert Noyce Ed Roberts Gary Kildall Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak Bill Gates, Paul Allen Richard Stallman Linus Torvalds Tim Berners-Lee Marc Andreessen
Integrated Circuit Microprocessor Diskette, Floppy Disk ARPANET, TCP/IP, NSFnet, Internet World-Wide Web
C Pascal Basic (MS) C++ Java
AT&T Bell Labs Texas Instruments Intel MITS Xerox Digital Research Apple Radio Shack Microsoft IBM Free Software Foundation Netscape Communications UNIX (BSD, Solaris, etc...) CP/M PC/MS-DOS OS/2 Windows, NT, etc. GNU Linux VisiCalc WordStar NCSA Mosaic Netscape (Mozilla)