Dennis Ritchie is dead

[Adorno]

The creator of Unix (among others) and the programming language C is dead.

 

[Evilknightz]

Is everybody from the first age of computer development going to die at once, or something?

 

[Archonsod]

Oooh, we could have a sweep stake. Who's next, Bill Gates or Scott McNealy?

 

[Slawtering]

Mark Shuttleworth if he oes on another spaceflight

 

[Adorno]

Hmm, awefully quiet in the media about his death - considering the huge impact he had on creating the electronic universe we all live in now.
I mean Steve Jobs was almost heightened to a demi-god upon his death, and article after article praised him to the heavens

I bet the death of Tim Berners-Lee will be a footnote...