The Cameos of After Y2K

				Cameos!

Great Geeks | OS Geeks and CEO's | Slashdot Geeks | More Cameos
Entertainment Celebs | Rockers | Ghosts of Geeks

Great Geeks
Steve Wozniak (Woz) The brilliant mind of Woz just shrugged off the Geek Apocalypse as yet another opportunity to make cool stuff. He adapted Babbage's Difference Engine to run as the wind-up iMac, and is currently promoting his new machine, the MacAbacus. first appearance	Arthur C. Clarke Sci-fi writer, brilliant visionary, and Real Millennium booster. first appearance
Stephen Hawking The physicist who has discovered there is more to life than a cartoon universe! first appearance	William Gibson Once a successful sci-fi author, his addiction to eBay drove him to near madness. Currently rebuilding his life as owner/operator/haggler of "Barter Overdrive". first appearance
Tim Berners-Lee Creator of the WWW, theTim is now weaving a new Web on his loom, and developing a new network based on cans and string technology! first appearance	Doug Engelbart The revolutionary geek who augmented our input devices... with the invention of the mouse. first appearance

OS Geeks and CEO's
Steve Jobs The y2k bug had no effect on Steve's world famous Reality Distortion Field! Once a wound-up iCEO, Steve is now promoting his company's wind-up iMacs. first appearance	Linus Torvalds The nicest guy in the do-it-yourself software biz! Always the tinkerer, his latest fetish, the penguin-powered Linacus, is proving popular amongst the Open Bead Movement. first appearance, First TransMeta appearance
Robert Young CEO of Red Hat. first appearance	Jean-Louis Gassée CEO of BeOS. A very imaginative and creative fellow. He created an incredible, versatile BeAbacus, but it just doesn't get as much press as the LinuxAbacus. first appearance
Steve Ballmer first appearance	David Ditzel He spent millions on the EniacAbacus, only to fill it with GoGo dancers and watch it blast off into space as the Go-Go Cube. first appearance
Eric Raymond leader of the Open Source Movement, and founding member of Geeks With Guns, he now devotes his time to teaching Kurt's 8-bit program for recovering geeks, ...and shooting stuff. first appearance	Mike Dell After the fall of civilization, started selling Abacuses Directly out of his covered wagon. first appearance
John maddog Hall Open Source Evangelist, and cool dude. first appearance	Richard Stallman Head of Free Software Movement. Does an interesting Saint Ingnuious. :) first appearance
Robert Bishop Chairman and chief executive officer of SGI. first appearance	Macromedia executives Rob Burgess, Norman Meyrowitz, and Betsy Nelson. first appearance

The Slashdot Guys
Rob (CmdrTaco) Malda first appearance	Jeff (Hemos) Bates first appearance
Jonathan (CowboyNeal) Pater first appearance	Robin (Roblimo) Miller first appearance
Jon Katz first appearance

More Cameos!
John Carmac Once a superstar programmer of idsoftware fame, John suffered serious emotional trauma after the Geek Apocalypse. He eventually found his way to Kurt's, where after intense geek therapy, he adopted the persona of the Quake Wizard. Yes, he designed and built those glasses himself, and no, sorry, but they are not for sale at the Geek Culture webstore. first appearance	Negroponte Visionary, author, and former head geek of MIT's Media Lab, he completed Geek Retraining and is now operating a very successful ice-cream stand. first appearance
Mike Popovic The BeDope guy!
Peter Norton Developer of Norton's Anti-Pest for the Abacus. first appearance	"Kerri" the Tubes Rock Girl (formally the MacAbacus Girl, and the MacWarehouse Girl). first appearance

Entertainment Celebs
Lucy Lawless She joined Martha Stewart's army, but was quickly distracted by the charm of Linus Torvalds. first appearance	Mel Gibson A former actor, Mel used his experience in post-apocalyptic films to gain support amongst the tribal road warriors that flourished after Y2K. Current allegiance is to Lord Stewart. first appearance
Tiffany Shlain Former Webbie Award diva, she now hosts the Beadie Awards. first appearance	George Lucas Creator of Star Wars, his company LucasArts was devastated by the Y2K bug. George is currently touring his Star Wars Episode II as a puppet show. first appearance
The Lone Gunmen Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood. first appearance first appearance by Dean	David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson First Appearance
Gene Roddenberry first appearance

Rockers!
The Beatles First Appearance	Mick Jagger First Appearance
Roger Daltry First Appearance	Pete Townsend First Appearance
Allan Freed The man credited with coining the phrase Rock n' Roll... with Tubes's help of course. First Appearance

Ghosts of Geeks
The Ghost of Charles Babbage Inventor of the world's first mechanical computer. Somewhat miffed at the whole microprocessor thing, Charles had a good laugh at the stroke of midnight Dec 31st 1999. first appearance	The Ghost of Ada Byron Ada Byron is perhaps best known as the first computer programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage, writing about and working on his Analytical Engine. Together, the pair also came up with what they considered an "infallible system" for beating the odds at the horse races... oops, not so infallible! first appearance
Alan Turing first appearance	Leon Theremin first appearance
Thomas Edison first appearance	Nicola Tesla first appearance
Grace Hopper first appearance Tubes visitation	Albert Einstein first appearance
Robert A. Heinlein first appearance	Isaac Asimov first appearance
Marie Curie first appearance	Hedy Lamarr first appearance
Sir Isaac Newton first appearance

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