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When I think of a great man of history I tend to get an idea of someone who did or made a singular thing that has greatly advanced the species. For example, Ala
by gillytech 5y ago
When I think of a great man of history I tend to get an idea of someone who did or made a singular thing that has greatly advanced the species. For example, Alan Turing pioneered modern computing. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb (this may be debatable but just for the sake of example). Sir Tim Berners Lee "invented" the [HTTP] internet.
In this context, what is the thing Linus Torvalds created? The... server?