Who should I do for my biography speech?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I'm thinking Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or someone of the sort. My categories would be computers in general, not some random guy the class won't ever hear about again, so computers, cars, and/or marketing schemes.

Other interesting ideas are helpful too, I thought of maybe something to do with Coke or Pepsi and I could bring in coke cans or something, or maybe some type of candy, basically, I want to avoid B. Gates and Michael Jordan and people everyone knows about. Not that many people know about Steve Jobs, I dought they all know history of Coke or something like that.

Any good ideas guys? Oh, and please, not some guy I'll be researching for hours to find 2 decent sources of information.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Anand ! Thats a story of success and he is still young.

 

[GasX]

General Orde Wingate and his exploits during WWII in Ethiopia and Burma.

 

[GasX]

ok, you said computers...

how about Tom West?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: galvanizedyankee
Anand ! Thats a story of success and he is still young.

Great story but no one would know who he is except one other person in the class, not to mention they'd all think I'm referring to something similar to my past and just bringing it up again even though it's been 3 years or so now since it ended.....

Most woudl just think, ok, so what, he has a computer site, you think we're geeks or something? Keep in mind I have to keep audience interested and dicussing CPU's and computer hardware isn't the way

 

[Queasy]

You could go and do a bio on the guy who invented ctrl-alt-del since he was just in the news recently after announcing his retirement. He did alot more interesting things than just the three key reboot but that is what he is known best for.

He has possibly the greatest one-liner in computerdom. At a conference roundtable attended by such luminaries as Bill Gates, someone asked him about inventing ctrl-alt-del. He responded (paraphrasing), "I may have invented it but Windows made it popular."

 

[Dufman]

do Al Gore.
he invented the internet

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Queasy
You could go and do a bio on the guy who invented ctrl-alt-del since he was just in the news recently after announcing his retirement. He did alot more interesting things than just the three key reboot but that is what he is known best for.

He has possibly the greatest one-liner in computerdom. At a conference roundtable attended by such luminaries as Bill Gates, someone asked him about inventing ctrl-alt-del. He responded (paraphrasing), "I may have invented it but Windows made it popular."

Hehe, yup, I have that video, but half of them wouldn't get it, remember, I am talking to idiots who have only used XP for the most part... Maybe 98 but not enough beyond IE to see it crash...

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: AgaBooga

Hehe, yup, I have that video, but half of them wouldn't get it, remember, I am talking to idiots who have only used XP for the most part... Maybe 98 but not enough beyond IE to see it crash...

Oh, idiots you say. Then you should do a biography on the iMac.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

What are some non-mac ideas? I just want to see some other ideas