Welcome to ... Geek History!

Inspired by the fact that I have been asked many times about the history of various technology topics, and it appears that most folks don't realize the roots of much of the technology we all now take for granted, I hope to pull it together at Geekhistory.com a site that will help folks to learn about some famous geeks, the history of the internet and operating systems, as well as technology in general.

I learned BASIC back in '75, the first computer I personally owned was a Commodore VIC-20, I've been told that makes me a Geek.

So what is a Geek? Much like a "guru," a spiritual leader and teacher, I see true technology geeks as leaders and teachers.

Geeks are the folks that work on the open source code browsers at mozilla.org. Geeks are the folks that work on learning and perfecting other open source code products like Linux, and Apache Web server. Geeks are really folks who do it for the "love of the game."

I hope this site will help kids to learn about some of these famous geeks:

Marc Andreessen - On the team that created the graphic web browser (Mosaic), with NSF, who co-founded Netscape in 1994.

Tim Berners-Lee - If any single person can take credit for inventing the internet it's this guy, not Al Gore, as this guru is the father of HTML and the WWW as we now know it.

Linus Torvalds - Surprisingly enough finished above Princess Diana and Pope Paul V on Time Magazines Person of the Century Poll. Linus is, of course, the founder of Linux.

There's much to learn and share, on the history of the internet and operating systems, as well as technology in general.