"Tech Heroes" From Ada Lovelace to Jamie Z

An anonymous reader writes "The Web 2.0 Journal has launched a search for what it calls "the all-time heroes of i-Technology" (its own shorthand for 'Internet technologies'), reaching as far back as to The Countess of Lovelace, though whether or not Ada Lovelace is truly the first programmer is not discussed. As an exercise in reminding ourselves whose shoulders we are standing on when hurtlng towards the 21st-century, richer Web it's not a bad start. Naturally there are sins of omission..."

Claude E. Shannon

[z-man]

How is it possible to create a list of the most important people in technology throughout history and _not_ include Shannon. Jeez, the guy is the father of information theory and digital circuit design!

The mind bibbles, boggles and so on

[allikat_uk]

How could they forget Alan Turing? [wikipedia.org] The inventor of the Turing test for AI, and father of the modern computer?

Heroes

[alexj33]

With the patenting of other people's ideas, Microsoft could be the "Sylar" of Tech Heroes.

Americans with Disabilities Act...

[krischik]

American Dental Association...
Americans for Democratic Action...
Assistant District Attorney...
American Diabetes Association...

which of them [1] are you sick off?

I personaly am sick of people who don't know that a "A female given name."[2] is not spelled all upper case.

Martin

[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ADA [wiktionary.org]
[2] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ada [wiktionary.org]

Re:Naturally there are sins of omission...

[Pictish Prince]

More to the point, how could they forget John von Neumann [wikipedia.org], Marvin Minsky [wikipedia.org] and others?

Clean link

[Sax Maniac]

YARGH! Mine eyes and ears are bleeding! This one even stumped adblock with filterset G. Here's the print version: http://web2journal.com/read/331813_p.htm [web2journal.com]

We need a tag for "loaded up with ads to the point where you can't even RTFA if you wanted to", but I can't think of anything pithy. "adsoup"?

Re:irony of the sites name

[QRDeNameland]

Even worse, that crap pops up even if you have Adblock on.

Despite that, I hope whoever invented Adblock is on the list. My vote for best technology of the "Web 2.0" era, by far.