Admire the famous elders in the technology village

Who are they? These are the people who gave birth to the internet, created the concept of spam, invented the brick phone, the old kute . causing fever in the online community.

Douglas Engelbart

Few people know that computer mice were born more than 40 years ago, on December 9, 1968, invented by engineer Douglas Engelbart. At that time, this invention was assessed as doubling the power of a ' massive ' computer.

About how it works, the mouse was born then and the kind of genuine mouse today is not much different. Initially, the computer mouse had 3 buttons above and two wheels below to control the left or right up and down, which were later replaced by a single marble or completely lost in today's optical mice.

The reason why naming this device as a " mouse " even if the person who invented it is uncertain, probably due to the appearance of a real-life mouse. In 1968, Douglas Engelbart also launched many other inventions that today it is called "the origin of inventions such as visual communication, hypertext links . "

Martin Cooper

The name Martin Cooper is not so famous and familiar to everyday life. But for those who work in technology, especially phones, no one will ever know Cooper as the first person to sing a mobile phone.

Needless to say, just look at half of the world population owning a handset that Cooper is the creator of how well this product is popular.

According to his original design while working with Motorola, the phone will carry 2kg of weight in 1973 under the name Dyna-Tac. However, since then, there have been many advanced technologies, today, smartphones have been reduced in volume many times.

Alan Kay

The name Alan Kay was so famous in Silicon Valley for his great contributions to the development of global technology. In 2004, this computer scientist was honored with the Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology Award (the most prestigious award in the world technology industry).

Alan Kay was the one who created the concept of personal computing and realized that. In the late 1960s, Kay participated in designing ARPAnet, the predecessor of the Internet. He is also the maker of Dynabook, the first version of the current line of laptops, with a flat screen, wireless network and an electronic pen.

In addition, Alan Kay collaborated with Steve Jobs and colleagues at Apple Computer (formerly) to create the Macintosh, the first computer with a user-friendly mass-produced graphical interface.

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

Those who laid the first solid foundation for the emergence and development of the Internet were Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. They are very admired and considered the father of the global network when creating the TCP / IP protocol.

This standard protocol helps computers in the same network be able to communicate with each other, opening up the era of Internet boom as large as it is today.

Gary Thuerk

In the early years when the Internet grew and exploded, 'spam' was quickly considered the standard form of communication marketing of the new era. The one who invented the method of sending ' spam ' is Gary Thuerk.

Accordingly, these messages are sent via Arpanet network to introduce to customers the T series of VAX systems. What the character couldn't think of was that he was the first person in the world to be considered a ' spammer '.

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Scott Fahlman

Another gentleman contributed to the development of information technology with the idea of ​​inserting emotion (Emoticon) into the text to increase the sense of inspiration. Today, these emoticons have been used in many places both in the streets, in public places and in virtual worlds such as chat programs, e-mail, and messaging applications.

Lillian Lowe

Mrs. Lillian was born in 1907, so far she has turned 104 but time cannot stop her passion for the technology world. He is the clearest proof for the saying: "Old age but not old" when surfing Facebook regularly every day, watching commentary lines, changing his status like a certain young male. In addition, Lillian also likes to use the iPad and regularly visit the world with the Google Earth utility.

Sidney Platt

Mr. Platt is 106 years old and still has a daily walk. Instead of thinking about 'lying down' like other old people, he tries to 'download' favorite files like .pdf files, images, high-quality audio files that record voices. famous for a while .

At the age of 100, he also took advanced computer courses at Havering University and achieved very high results.

Daniel Goodreau

Although life is currently below poverty, old Daniel Goodreau still maintains his life on the virtual network in the most positive way. He regularly goes to the Santa Fe Public Library to use the free 60-minute internet every day.

Daniel Goodreau is very familiar with communication tools like Skype, Google Voice, Yahoo! Messenger . In addition, he uses his laptop to write books, develop applications for tablets.

The old lady believed

If asked who the elderly have the most ' attractiveness ' on the Chinese internet community in 2010, that could only be the 'great -news ' kute. She wears a checkered shirt and black glasses . and shows all the skills that young people often use when taking photos of 'taking a selfie '.