Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]
Groups > comp.mobile.android > #148732
| From | Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone |
| Subject | Re: RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us |
| Date | 2025-06-08 13:09 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <mal9buFnjg7U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <1022am3$3bjls$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 6 groups.
Alan, 2025-06-07 23:24: > I say this with no hyperbole: Bill Atkinson may well have been the best > computer programmer who ever lived. Without question, heβs on the short > list. What a man, what a mind, what gifts to the world he left us. > > <https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/bill-atkinson-rip> > > It doesn't matter which operating system you're using today. > > The way it operates was influenced by him. R.I.P. <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Bill_Atkinson%E2%80%94creator_of_MacPaint%E2%80%94painted_in_MacPaint.jpg> -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de
Back to comp.mobile.android | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar
RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> - 2025-06-07 14:24 -0700 Re: RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid> - 2025-06-07 18:20 -0500 Re: π³οΈβπRIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left usπ³οΈβπ πππ»πΊπΉπ»ππ·πΊπJenπππ»πΊπΉπ»ππ·πΊπ Dershmendenderer ππ»πΊπΉπ»ππ·πΊπΆη¬πππ»πΊπΉπ»ππ·πΊπ <root@127.0.0.1> - 2025-06-07 23:38 +0000 Re: RIP, Bill Atkinson: A giant of computing has left us Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-06-08 13:09 +0200
csiph-web