news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2007030 … rld/129301
interesting
bit torrent is #3
[quote=“jdsmith”]http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070305/tc_pcworld/129301
interesting
bit torrent is #3
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Having some trouble loading that page, for some reason. I’m surprised bit torrent is that low, though. Isn’t bit torrent supposed to account for something like 1/3 or 1/2 of all internet traffic? Who’s above them? Google, I would guess. Who else? (I guess I should probably just be patient and wait for the page to load properly. Damn bit torrents – clogging up the lines again so us normal folk can’t even read a news story. 
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- Google Guys
- Apple (Steve Jobs)
I’m suprised that a one off my countrymen got on that list. DVD Jon. He’s only 18.
What did I do with my life.
On the technology side at least it’s a pretty bizarre list.
Bram is on there but is not what you’d call an “important person” – he had one great idea five years ago and hasn’t done much since. Not that I’m knocking him: it was a really awesome idea.
Various people are on there just for writing things about the web - the W3C guy, the RSS guy, the AJAX guy. The last two are particularly odd - the RSS guy wrote one blog post five years ago and that’s basically his entire contribution. RSS isn’t even a clever idea, unlike BitTorrent. And the “AJAX guy” is either reviled or laughed at by the whole tech community because he didn’t invent anything, and we were all doing “AJAX” years before he came along and took credit for it.
Meanwhile the guys behind the fundamental technology of the web are nowhere to be seen - where’s Linus? Where’s Larry Wall? Guido van Rossum? Matz? The Apache people, whoever they may be? Cisco?