Who gave the Most to IT community?

Hi guys.

what party/who do you think gave the most to the computer/internet/IT technologies
you can state in hardware and/or in software or just in general

IBM,Microsoft,Open Source People(if u can specify would be great) and oh please don't turn it into another fight between M$ ppl and Open source ppl,SunMicrosystem,oracle,intel,IEEE,Google inc,www.some-community-site.com,X-labs,the US government ...

donno there are lot of names, I just tried to remember the companies that were in the old days, but seems like can't get the names out of my head

and why did u choose that company or party between everybody from the all time
well u don't have only to pick up one(damn hard :P )... u can state some and tell what invention or the important stuff they did to make the topic more informative

Hi beee,

That's just plum easy...Al Gore :D

Eg ;)

Charles Babbage.


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I forgot the follow up portion as to why I chose him.


Well without Mr. Babbage and his Analytical machine we wouldn't have modern computers. I'm not sure how someone can have more of an impact on an industry than that :)

Everyone did something, do you demand a history class? I wounder why!

Linus Torvalds, I would say, contributed more than any other single person. By the way, I base this on nothing factual :)

well it is not a history class at all :P as they don't have to be from the ice age companies

just wanted to know ur opinions as this was something i was thinking about.

Bill Gates! :D

Here's what he gave to the IT Community:

1. Crappy OS
2. Computer Insecurities
3. Spyware
4. Viruses
5. A severe headache
6. Internet Explorer :killcompu:
7. ....
8. ....

He sure has given a lot to not just the community but also to the world... wish there was someway to pay him back :shootem:

- IBM, bring computing the companies (360 Series)
- IBM & MS, bring computing to all users (PC platform)
- Linus Torvalds, bringing a good "port" of unix do x86 platform
- Xerox, bringing local network idea and a good implementation (but not used)
- Novell, bringing the cheap networks servers
and so on...

Dennis Ritchie (while) at bell labs for his contribution of the C programming language

The defense department...without DARPA none of this would be here.

Perhaps Alan Turing..
Since Babbage was taken ;)

Or perhaps RMS (Richard Stallman)..
for GNU and a lot of the tools found on most (if not all) unixes..

NCSA and Mosaic.

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Originally posted here by Black Cluster
Everyone did something, do you demand a history class?

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I would agree. Stupid question, why come on to any forum and ask that? You're only going to get different opinions from different people. Why don't you go and do some research and come to your own conclusions?

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Why don't you go and do some research and come to your own conclusions?

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maybe this IS part of his research?

me - my left testicle is currently deep underground in a remote facility in the coldest part of the arctic circle. Its mystical powers currently maintain the complete backbone of the current 'net' which many people think is short for internet but which actually stands for Network Energizing Testicle.........


either that or Scott Fahlman

whatever would we do without him :)

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Originally posted here by cacosapo
- IBM, bring computing the companies (360 Series)
- IBM & MS, bring computing to all users (PC platform)
- Linus Torvalds, bringing a good "port" of unix do x86 platform
- Xerox, bringing local network idea and a good implementation (but not used)
- Novell, bringing the cheap networks servers
and so on...

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Well if I had to pick from a list like that... there are alot of things Xerox had done or atleast had taken credit for doing FIRST. Everyone else that has been mentioned so far just re-introduced certain things for a much larger user base.

well thanks guys for your replies...
there was some people that i did not research.
i will do little research also about them

it is just something personal i was doing ( not uni search or something)