Interesting Facts and Stories :

1) Tim Berners Lee -- Founder of the World Wide Web
2) Bjarne Stroustrup, C++ Stroustrup called his new language 'C with Classesand then 'new C'.Because of which the original C began to be called 'old C'which wasconsidered insulting to the C community. At this time Rick Mascittisuggested the name C++ as a successor to C.
3) Michael Dell of Dell Computers
4) Larry Ellison of Oracle Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on aconsulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code namefor the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to giveanswers to all questions or something such). The project was designed tohelp use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually wasterminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bringit to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine.Later they kept the same name for the company.
5) James Gosling,and his project is now known as Java Originally called Oakby creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, theprogramming team had to look for a substitute as there was no other languagewith the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It camefrom the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.
6) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP. Behind them in the picture isthe famous HP Garage. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decidewhether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard orPackard-Hewlett.
7) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX, B and C DennisRitchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.Helater called it C. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bonprogramming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
8) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google. Google wasoriginally named 'Googol'. After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brinand Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received acheque made out to 'Google' !
9) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel Bob Noyce and GordonMoore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was alreadytrademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym ofINTegrated ELectronics.
10) Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla ofSUN(StanfordUniversity Network) MicroSystems Founded by fourStanfordUniversity buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford UniversityNetwork. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruitedhim and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy todevelop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
11) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally usedthe Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the workingname was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical andplanned to name it Freax (free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmk encouragedLinus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gaveLinus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like thename Freax. (Linus' parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winnerLinus Pauling)
12) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers Favorite fruitof founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for thebusiness, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the othercolleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.