The light-bulb - Thomas Edison
I am forbidden from purchasing them now in a standard size.
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#112PGP
Phil Zimmerman
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#113Bingo Card Creator: https://www.bingocardcreator.com/ Exiled Kingdoms: https://www.exiledkingdoms.com/forum/index.php Stardew Valley: https://www.stardewvalley.net/ Instapaper: https://www.instapaper.com/ MeetWell: https://www.meetwell.app/
Rollercoaster Tycoon/Transport Tycoon
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#114I'm consistently impressed by the stuff I wrote using the golang standard lib still running an entire decade later with only golang stdlib updates, while the stuff written with dependencies is dead
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#115What do you mean by test of time? Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony? Or some random tech stuff like Git if all the math is run on the shoulders of the likes of Euklid? But to add something technical: Nicolas Appert the guy who did canning before Pasteur could explain how it worked.
Forgive the tangent, but this is the first time I've seen Euclid written with a "k". In retrospect that seems like the more obvious Latinization. I wonder why Euclid is more common.
Well i did not think about it, the name is written with k in Germany.
The Germans keep a lot of the Greek K in names where in general the latinized version with an C is used by others.
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#117zlib by Mark Adler
Project page at https://zlib.net/
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#118Lululemon founder Chip Wilson was the inventor of Board Shorts (the shorts for surfers... he then went on to invent several other garments - then founded lululemon...
His episode on how I built this is REALLY interesting.
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#119The lines blur between creation/discovery for some of these. Additionally, the historic nature makes it impossible to determine if these were all the work of a single individual, but I'll go with: Joseph Shivers - Lycra/Spandex Albert Hoffman - LSD Anton Köllisch - MDMA (was killed in WW1) John Pemberton - Coca Cola (significantly different to the modern drink) John Baird Glen - Propofol Percy Spencer - Microwave Ove…
I'd wonder what the original Coca Cola would taste like.
Cocaine
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#120I'd put emacs and gcc by Richard Stallman on the list. (Obviously they subsequently grew to way more than one persons efforts.)
and GPL license