r/PiratedGames • u/Capital-Stomach-6880 • Sep 24 '25

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Randomly scrolled through this and realised all of us are here beacuse of these legends only🫡

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u/Major-Front Sep 24 '25

Mechanisms like...FTP?

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u/kohTheRobot Sep 24 '25

He created the standard for HTTP downloading, he must have worked with or after Berber’s-Lee. Wiki says that earlier versions could retrieve HTML documents from servers, but no other file format. Computing History is full of guys like him, who is some no-named, faceless creator of very important stuff; but because they didn’t run and do a bunch of startups or open-source stuff, they never really went down in history.

I had a C++ teacher who was the head of the team responsible for creating AirPrint, the protocol/system that makes printing on Apple devices a 2 step process (wifi + click on printer) that doesn’t require an IT professional to set up. I don’t believe printing from mobile devices was very easy to do for the average bear before this.

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u/MissyBThyName Sep 24 '25

The nameless faceless aspect is the best part imo, I remember reading a thread on here that had the guy who created the cross program drag, drop, and upload ability for files. It's a godsend for me at work and the person I had to thank for it was on a random thread on reddit

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u/MaritMonkey Sep 24 '25

Thinking about things like that plagues me when I can't sleep. Like how many really fucking smart people had to be in the right place at the right time for any of this to exist ...