1) Tim Berners Lee -- Founder of the World Wide Web

2) Picture taken when Microsoft was started.

3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers. He was three months late in
filing a name for the business because he didn't get any better name for his new company.
So one day he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by 5’o'clock today, our company's
 name will be anything he likes..." so at 5’o'clock nobody come up with better name, and he
was eating APPLE that time... so he kept the name of the company 'Apple Computers'

4) Bill Hewlett (L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP. Behind them in the picture is the famous HP
Garage. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they
founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. And the winner was NOT
Bill... the winner was Dave.

5) Ken Thompson (L) and Dennis Ritchie(R), creators of UNIX. Dennis Ritchie improved on the B
programming language and called it 'New B'. B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision
of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie) He later called it C.
6) Larry Page (L) and Sergey Brin (R), founders of Google. Google was originally named
'Googol'. After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their
project to an angel investor... they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !... So they
kept name as GOOGLE

7) Gordon Moore (L) and Bob Noyce (R), founders of Intel. Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore
wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'. But that was already trademarked by a
hotel chain... So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics... INTEL.

8) Andreas Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN (StanfordUniversity
Network) MicroSystems. Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies. Andreas Bechtolsheim
built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him; Scott McNealy to manufacture
computers based on it; and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer... SUN is
the acronym for Stanford University Network.
9) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his
system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He
thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x). His
friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily
downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the
name Freax. Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX...

10) 10) Picture taken when INFY was started. This picture was found in the album of the clerk
who took this picture... The picture was with that clerk only because it was his birthday
and he just told everyone to stand together at one place to take a pic. He borrow a camera
from his friend and as he can not tell any of his boss to take pic, so he took pic by
himself... even it was his birthday.
11) Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red
and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it
desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to
return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

12) Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to
MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

13) Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder
John Warnock.

14) Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used. In his book 'Gulliver's Travels'.
It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human.
Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered
themselves yahoos.

15) Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry' (as it was dry
copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer'
means dry.

16) Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to
refer to a bright youngster.

17) SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees
who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

18) ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA
saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). Acronym for:
One Real Asshole Called Larry Ellison?

19) Motorola - Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

20) AND THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN WHEN SUPERHIT SHOLEY WAS STARTED...... They were
looking at Asrani when he was doing practice first time with his funny Jailer's dress...
ALONE on one rock.