The man who really invented the iPod
Posted by David Hepworth on 11 September 2008 - 12:56pm.
We know that the British invent everything and then can't work out how to make a fortune from it. Latest example is Kane Kramer who invented the iPod in, er, 1979 when a device's memory could only accommodate one tune. Still, thought was there.
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Hmmmm
Those Apple guys weren't quite as innovative as they would have us believe. See here for another example.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4265374.stm
What do you expect
from a company that "nicked" it's name from someone else....
It was actually John Lennon...
I presume
he sold the design to his friend Bob Sacamento, hoping to sink the resulting money into his 'coffee table book about coffee tables that turns into a coffee table' idea instead.
that reminds me...
*makes note to purchase Festivus advent calender*...
Another Briton is credited with inventing the World Wide Web...
Tim Berners-Lee made his "idea available freely with no patent or no roylaties due".*
*Wikipedia
WWW
He seems to be OK with that though ;-)
Tim Berners-Lee is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a Senior Research Scientist and the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT's CSAIL where he leads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG), and Professor of Computer Science at Southampton ECS.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/