1 stephen wozniak: alias Woz.
Often called the second Apple founder Steve Jobs. He founded Apple Computer Company with Jobs. WOZ started his hacking career by making the blue box, which is a circuitous technology that allows users to make long-distance calls for free. WOZ and Jobs sold these blue boxes to their classmates, and even used this blue box phone to impersonate Kissinger to call the Pope.
WOZ dropped out of college and invented his own computer. Jobs suggested selling this computer as a computer circuit board assembled by himself, which was the prototype of the original Apple computer. They sold Apple computers to local distributors at a unit price of $666.66.
WOZ is now committed to charity and no longer works full-time at Apple. Now he seems to have "adopted" the entire campus of Los Gato-Saratoga Joint High School with many Asian students, personally taught students and teachers, and donated some first-class equipment.
2. Tim Berners Lee
He is regarded as the founder of the World Wide Web. He won numerous honors, including the Millennium Invention Award. When he was still studying at Oxford University, he and his classmates were caught stealing passwords with computers, so they were forbidden to use the school computers.
Tim Berners Lee believes that hypertext should be associated with computer networks. Recalling how he combined the two, he said: I just linked hypertext with TCP and DNS, and the World Wide Web came into being.
After the appearance of the World Wide Web, he founded the World Wide Web Association at MIT. The members of this association call themselves: a group of members who get together to make network rules. All the rules formulated by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web and World Wide Web Association are not patented and do not require any royalties.
3. Linus torvalds
Created Linux, a Unix-based operating system. He became an engineer. It says its ideal is simple: I just want to enjoy making the best operating system in the world. Torvalds's hacking career began when he was a teenager. He wrote a Commodore Vic-20 microprogram in assembly language on a home 8-bit computer. The main reason why he used assembly language was that he didn't know there were other programming tools available at that time. In the summer of 199 1, that is, six months after Linus got his first PC, Linus thought it was time to download some files. But before he can read and write disks, he must write a disk driver. Write a file system at the same time. In this way, with the task conversion function, the file system and the device driver, it becomes Unix, at least the kernel of Unix. Linux was born. Later, he applied for FTP server space from Helsinki University, let others download the public version of Linux, use GPL for Linux, and constantly improve it through hacker patches, so that it can be well combined with GNU's existing application software. In this way, Linux has a graphical user interface overnight, and it is still expanding. In recognition of his outstanding contribution, an asteroid was named after him and received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University in Sweden and Helsinki University in Finland, and was called "the hero of the 1960s".
4. Richard Stallman
Stallman, named after GNU project, is committed to developing a free operating system in this project. To this end, he became the spiritual leader of free software. In his famous "serious story", he said: charging software makes users helpless and independent, unshakable and irreplaceable. A free operating system is very important for people to use computers freely.
Storman started his hacking career when he was at MIT. And he has become a professional hacker in projects such as Emac. He severely criticized the computer's intervention in the laboratory. Whenever the password of the lab computer is installed, he will crack it and set it to the initialization state, and then send an email to inform the user of this computer that the password has been removed.
Storman's journey to free software began with the printer. The first printer bought by MIT artificial intelligence laboratory comes with the source code of the driver. Hackers in MIT's artificial intelligence laboratory can fix bugs in printer drivers themselves or modify printer drivers according to their own needs, which brings great convenience to their work. Then MIT bought a laser printer. This time, the manufacturer only provided a binary printer driver, which is the only software in MIT without source code. Richard Stallman wants to modify this driver for work, but he can't because he doesn't have the driver source code. This brings a lot of inconvenience to work. This also made Stallman realize the value of free software.
Storman is still committed to the development of free software. He opposes the protection of digital copyright, and he believes that the act of attaching source code conforms to professional ethics standards. He has won many awards and honorary doctorates, and is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
5. Tsutomu Shimomura
Tsutomu Shimomura's reputation is unfortunate. He was attacked by hacker Kevin Mitnick, and later he will help the FBI capture Kevin Mitnick as his career.
It is commendable that Tsutomu Shimomura captured Kevin Mitnick, but in the process, Tsutomu Shimomura also invaded AT & amp； T phone company's server monitors calls on capitol hill in the United States Once, when he was listening to the phone on Capitol Hill, FBI investigators were with him. Shimomura recorded KEVIN MITNICK's attack on his system with his own modified version of TCPDUMP, and with the help of telephone company technicians, using frequency direction detection antenna, through the analysis of the modulation signal containing azimuth information, mitnick's apartment was found. Later, he wrote a book about it and then adapted it into a movie.