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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Famous Personalities(Computer Industry)

Hi Friends! I got these in a forwarded mail, thought i would share them with you..



1) Tim Berners Lee - Founder of the "World Wide Web"


2) Picture taken when Microsoft was started.
Bill Gates is the boy marked with a box.



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 oneday he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clock today, our
company's name will be anything he likes..."

so at 5 o'clock nobody came up with better name, and he was eating APPLE at that time....

so he kept the name of the company as "Apple Computers"



4) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) 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.


5) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,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.




6) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), 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.




7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,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 Stanford University 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 INFOSYS 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 picture.

He borrowed a camera from his friend and as he cannot tell any of his boss to take pic, he took pic by himself... even though it was his birthday!! 

Tags: photos 10 famous eminent world personalities IT industry Computer Field trivia info

45 comments:

Anonymous,  Jun 20, 2009, 11:47:00 PM  

this is nice to see

Anonymous,  Jul 31, 2009, 1:24:00 AM  

nice................
and could you please help me know how ur blog appeared at first page of google search of that topic "Famous computer personalities".....

(rmmuthupalaniappan@gmail.com)

Anonymous,  Oct 30, 2009, 8:18:00 PM  

Images nice but would like to have more

AKMA Oct 31, 2009, 9:08:00 PM  

>> "Images nice but would like to have more"

Just for you anon, I will try to get some more pics.. :)

Meanwhile, readers with similar requests may want to check out the "famous people" label, for a list of famous scientists...

Unknown Dec 16, 2009, 8:52:00 AM  

Great work! It's a very precious knowledge for anybody winthin the IT Industry. Your Effort is tremondus.Thank You very much.

Anonymous,  Dec 21, 2009, 7:29:00 AM  

Good work done

Anonymous,  Feb 25, 2010, 3:06:00 PM  

really nice pictures....thnks for sharing such a precious information

Anonymous,  May 11, 2010, 12:54:00 PM  

all irrelevant information

Anonymous,  May 18, 2010, 7:22:00 PM  

cant find the needed thing aw........

Anonymous,  Aug 4, 2010, 7:01:00 PM  

very nice
please keep on adding such cool mails

Anonymous,  Aug 11, 2010, 8:01:00 PM  

more picz???

Rita Jindal,  Sep 18, 2010, 1:08:00 PM  

Nice work! Interested in reading more of their stories

Anonymous,  Sep 19, 2010, 1:27:00 AM  

very nice collection! Add some more..

Anonymous,  Dec 13, 2010, 10:35:00 PM  

very helpful in my quiz.i will be grateful to you if you will upload more of them

nandhini,  Mar 1, 2011, 8:46:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Apr 17, 2011, 8:37:00 PM  

nice and ty it was useful in my computer quiz competition

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Anonymous,  Jul 26, 2011, 1:30:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Sep 5, 2011, 10:04:00 AM  

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Akram Naeem Oct 18, 2011, 12:40:00 AM  

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Anonymous,  Nov 7, 2011, 2:14:00 PM  

Great pics, but it would have been great if many more images are given...PLease tell me the link for any image

Anonymous,  Nov 24, 2011, 5:53:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Nov 28, 2011, 9:47:00 PM  

nice and interesting info...

Anonymous,  Dec 5, 2011, 8:47:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Jan 15, 2012, 5:02:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Jan 17, 2012, 4:02:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Feb 6, 2012, 2:27:00 PM  

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Anonymous,  Feb 20, 2012, 6:05:00 PM  

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pratap Mar 5, 2012, 11:16:00 AM  

nice ... motivative....



thanx

AimBin Mar 20, 2012, 11:42:00 AM  

I have read this article ..... a good one... but i have also found some interesting material at
http://freefeast.info/personality-motivation/famous-it-personalities-2/
regarding Famous IT Personalities ....
Thought you people might like it...

Anonymous,  Apr 13, 2012, 12:41:00 PM  

nice pics,
Thank you.


Sasikala varigireddy

chaithra May 23, 2012, 7:47:00 PM  

nice pics... add more pics....

chaithra May 23, 2012, 7:49:00 PM  

nice pics... add more pics....

Anonymous,  Aug 23, 2012, 7:24:00 PM  

very good information, helped me in my quiz.

Unknown Oct 7, 2012, 11:49:00 AM  

its give lot of information of famous people.
thanks for to provide such a valuable information to share......

Anonymous,  Aug 25, 2014, 8:04:00 PM  

should add some more personalities....otherwise the info is good

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