Archimedes Plutonium

Archimedes Plutonium

male, 59 years old
scientist, usenet, Eccentric, crank, eccentricity, Fermat's last theorem
Archimedes Plutonium (born July 5, 1950 as Ludwig Poehlmann) is primarily noted for his varied and eccentric contributions to Usenet. Plutonium...

Brian Reid

male
Google employee, scribe, computer scientist, AltaVista, Grace Murray Hopper Award, John Gilmore…USENET Cookbook, usenet
Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is a computer scientist most famous for developing the Scribe word processing system, the subject of his 1980 doctoral...
Tim Pierce

Tim Pierce

male
usenet, Usenetter, Net legends, Wikipedians who use GNU/Linux, rmgroup message, Net legend
Tim Pierce is a Boston-area software engineer and former Usenetter known in that medium for moderating rec.arts.erotica and ambushing alt.*-group...
Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

male, 50 years old
Tor Books, book editor, fanzine, Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, reviewer…usenet
Patrick James Nielsen Hayden (born January 2, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine publisher, essayist,...

Andrew Plotkin

male
game programmer, usenet, Interactive fiction writer, inform, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, Infocom
Andrew Plotkin, also known as Zarf, is an award-winning interactive fiction author and an important figure in the modern interactive fiction...
Elf Sternberg

Elf Sternberg

male, 43 years old
Pendor, Known Space, The Pendorwright Projects, rec.arts.sf.written, ringworld, erotica…usenet
Elf Mathieu Sternberg, a database programmer, born May 7, 1966, is the former keeper of the alt.sex FAQ. He is also the author of many erotic...
Barbara Schwarz

Barbara Schwarz

female, 54 years old
United States Department of the Treasury, National Security Agency, lexington herald-leader, dwight eisenhower, freedom of information act, central intelligence agency…Usenet person, usenet
Barbara Schwarz is a German national, living in the United States, who has made a record number of requests under the United States' Freedom of...
Helena Kobrin

Helena Kobrin

female, 61 years old
Hofstra University alumni, scientology, usenet, lawyer, Seton Hall University, American
Helena Kempner Kobrin (born April 27, 1948) is an American Scientologist and lawyer at the firm Moxon & Kobrin, working for the Religious...
Jef Poskanzer

Jef Poskanzer

male
usenet, PBM, FAQ, e-mail spam, A/UX, Jeffrey A. Poskanzer
Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet, he developed the portable pixmap file...
Rich Skrenta

Rich Skrenta

male, 42 years old
Mt. Lebanon High School, Northwestern University, Topix.net, Open Directory Project, Commodore Business Machines, Apple II…usenet
Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School,...