In einem wunderbaren Artikel -
XML People - beschreibt Tim Bray die Personen, die mit der ursprünglichen Entwicklung von XML zu tun hatten. Hat mich sehr fasziniert, wie er die Menschen hinter der Technologie lebendig werden lässt, ihr Aussehen, ihre Persönlichkeit, ihre Rolle und ihren Beitrag charakterisiert. Was mich wirklich neugierig machte und ich anfing Bilder von Ihnen im Internet zu suchen. Hier das Ergebnis, die Begründer und Erfinder von XML, jeweils kurz wie Tim Bray sie charakterisiert, und dazu ein Bild.
"Ted · Theodore Holm Nelson looks like Peter O’Toole, with a personal style similarly extravagant."
"TimBL - Tim Berners-Lee is thin, pale, and twitchy, a well-bred British baby-boomer who circumlocutes and temporizes and gets to the point slowly."
"Charles · Charles F. Goldfarb is a Jew from New York who got a Harvard law degree and went to work for IBM.Charles, fiftyish now, is dark, burly, balding, bearded, Californian. (...) He wears Western-style string ties, talks energetically with a lot of hand movement and still a New York rasp."
"Yuri · Yuri Rubinsky died in early 1996 (suddenly, of a heart attack) before our story really got started,...Yuri, a Canadian of Russian descent; was born in Beirut, Lebanon (a place we’ll hear from again) and, and while his family was Gentile as far as he knew, looked like a caricature of a mid-European Jewish intellectual."
"Jon · Jon Bosak is a writer who escaped into high tech from the inspiring but stingy publishing world; not the first by any means.(...) Jon, another boomer, is shortish, and looks like the child that might have been born to John Lennon and a Kennedy."
"James · James Clark is a computer programmer. (...) His ancestors made enough money that he, a GenXer, doesn’t really have to work. He is our story’s second Englishman, but is less polished and much more direct than TimBL."
"Tim · This is me, a fortysomething Canadian raised mostly in Beirut (there it is again). (...) I’m average size, average weight, fair, largely bald, with a vaguely Mennonite look caused by wearing a beard sans mustache, and speak average toneless mid-North-American."
"Eve · Eve Maler, a Honolulu-born boomer now in suburban New England, toiled for years, like Jon, in the techdoc mines. (...) Eve is buxom, curly-haired, full of smiles. Some people foolishly conclude that she is a technical lightweight and usually end up exposing their foolishness in public."
"Michael · C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen has a name that is unusually long by any standard...Michael, about 8 feet tall, correspondingly broad-shouldered, and with a bit of middle-aged spread...He is at all times in strict conformance with the dress code of the Midwestern academic: tweeds, checks, scarf, cloth cap."
"Lauren · Lauren Wood is a New Zealander whose adult life has been in Australia andGermany. (...) Lauren is smallish, slenderish, dark-haired, pale-skinned, large-eyed, and speaks with an Auckland lilt that can veer into complete opacity on
words with a strong “O”, such as “word” and “cold”. She is cheerful, patient, and very good company. (...) We were married in November 1996, just after XML was unleashed on the world."
"Jean · Jean Paoli is a citizen of France but really Lebanese, a typical Levantine ethnic cocktail: dark, burly, hirsute, chubby-faced."
"Phil · Phil Karlton died in 1997 (in an Italian auto accident while on vacation), so only takes a brief turn on this stage. (...) Phil was an ugly bald whiskery sweet man, with lots of rough edges and an
apparently-perfect 20-year marriage that, I think, intimidated many whose
relationships are more mundane and compromise-laden."
