The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
People other than xfalcox apparently...
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#12Not sure about famous, but some designer drugs might fit this category. E.g.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APINACA
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#13I would imagine that lots of computer viruses and worms fit this description.
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#14The DotA "creator" / last maintainer, IceFrog keeps his identity hidden. It did leak because of a Blizzard lawsuit, but people respect it and don't talk about it.
People other than xfalcox apparently...
The actual name, not the fact that it was leaked. It's trivial to find, you just have to look for it.
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#15I suspect there are many where the person that had the idea and did the research is completely anonymous because the person that managed and/or funded the lab made sure they were the ones with the name on the patent and marketing material.
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#16Writing, and in particular the Arabic numerals.
> and in particular the Arabic numerals.
They got that from the Indians specifically Aryabhata and Brahmagupta.
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#17The wheel is an uncredited invention that almost all of humanity uses multiple times a day.
stairs also fall into this category.
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#18Work published under the name "Shakespeare", if you consider literary work as some sort of creation, (if not invention).
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#19TrueCrypt.
-> VeraCrypt
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#20I would imagine that lots of computer viruses and worms fit this description.
Some of the first polymorphic viruses had very advanced code translation engines, basically JITs before they were common. I wonder if any JIT concepts were invented there?
One example is the DAME which stands for Dark Avenger Mutation Engine. It could recompile DOS viruses into equivalent but different machine code on the fly, including the mutation engine itself.