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Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

by antonpirker on 10/21/15, 10:35 AM with 45 comments

• by jfaucett on 10/21/15, 11:24 AM

  Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month.

  Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, Hoare, Dijkstra, to name few. If this were my list, I wouldnt have Lovelace or Gates on it, but most of the others seem warrented enough (in my opinion of course) :)

• by neals on 10/21/15, 12:36 PM

  To me, Bill Gates will always be what Steve Jobs is to so many.

• by a3n on 10/21/15, 1:28 PM

  Nice, bookmarked.

  But please don't redirect giantsofit.org to your current feature, it makes it tedious to correctly bookmark, and share, the site. Minor but unnecessary annoyance.

• by cactux on 10/21/15, 11:14 AM

  Here's another list, probably very similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_s...

• by chrisBob on 10/21/15, 12:05 PM

  "classified"? Why not just use the wikipedia pictures for these people?

• by personjerry on 10/21/15, 11:17 AM

  This should probably be a Show HN.

• by yitchelle on 10/21/15, 11:47 AM

  It would be interesting if degrees of separation could be shown between all of these giants.

• by simula67 on 10/21/15, 11:37 AM

  Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.

• by d_theorist on 10/21/15, 11:18 AM

  How many more times am I going to have to read that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer? It is getting to be annoying.

• by bjarne92 on 10/21/15, 10:59 AM

  Tim Berners Lee should be on your list on the first place!