Charles Babbage, 1792-1871 (He has a big machine)

Developed machine that solved pretty hard equations. Fair to say it was nuts.

Augusta Ada King, 1815-52 (maybe princess lela)

she helped developed the calculation machine developed by the big wig above her.

George Boole, 1815-64 (Dr. Steve Broole)

You know 1's and 0's language of computers? Yeah he made these things. He one time was told by his dad "you are one of two things in life. You are either a 1 or a 0!!!"

Konrad Zuse, 1910-95 (Martin Scorsese?)

This guy made THE BIG ELECTRONIC SCEENS YOU LOOKING AT! So thank him for giving the anxiety of the idea of "is the government watching me through this computers eye?"

Alan Turing, 1912-54 (Benidict Cumberbacht)

Developer for the idea of "Hey, what if computer could talk like people? And they talked so well, tha you couln't tell them apart form people. Like, you could throw a pair of pants on that keyboard and you think you were talk to Mr. Rodger." You can thank him for the idea of A.I.s and terminators taking over.

Dr.Grace Murrary Hopper, 1906-92 (Th girl he tells you "yeah you should worry about her, she kills it in that hat)

She one time saw a fly land on her computer screen, and the she discovered it wasn't a fly, it was a "bug".

Theodor Nelson, 1937 (Mr.Sunshine)

Super improtant programmer who made Xanadu. Not the movie but the software.

Tim bernes-Lee, 1955 (That guy who could really use a tissue, Aka. TimBL)

He made the WWW. that you know and never use to type. Because its useless. But he's a chill dude. He also did stuff in robot-ienese

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