Your comment can tell us a lot how technological progress works. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg worked a couple of months to code Facebook on PHP, and be cheere

Your comment can tell us a lot how technological progress works. For instance, Mark Zuckerberg worked a couple of months to code Facebook on PHP, and be cheered as a computer wizard all over the world.. But we often forget the decades of work on Browsers/Web/Web 2.0, PHP, MySQL, OS's, internet protocols, etc.. not even taking into account the try-and-fail technologies (like SOUP et al.) I think this is very unfair, because its like a bunch of people have worked hard pilling sheets of paper and when somebody put the last sheet of paper, somehow we forget about the guys who really make that tower and only the guy who put the top cherry, with the least effort is called a genius. We get it that the world might see it like this, but here in HN we should understand that the real hard working geniuses are probably not getting the fame they deserve (with the exception of the likes like Linus Torvalds) But guys like Zuckerberg, Jobs and Musk are definitely overated while Dennis Ritchie, Jeff Bonwick, Bill Joy, Rasmus Lerdorf, John von Neumann, Niklaus Wirth, etc.. are the people who we should really be thankful for, not just the guy who combine hard work to make something great and make billions of dollars out of it.