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Pang:
ya, jobs was very important in the early days of home computing and with the boom in consumer devices which started in the early 2000s
Jobs, Gates, Wozniak, Allen, Brin, Page, Yang, Filo, and MAYBE Zuckerberg (if you believe that Facebook was 'first' social networking platform) are all pioneers of the modern computing era, IMO
Although I still say Turing was probably more important overall to the field of computing. If you don't know who Turing is, look it up -- the server is hosted on a Turing machine.
You mean that math Genius dude who helped crack the German Enigma cipher protecting their comms and indirectly helped the allies win WWII? The dude who was also g.a.y. and was shunned and put on hormone therapy to deal with that problem and ended up commiting suicide as a result of that?
I didn't even have to use the interwebs. Books ftw =P