The Resume

(January 30, 1925-July 2, 2013)
Invented the Computer Mouse, Hypertext, the Multiwindow Display, Groupware and ARPANET (Predecessor of the Internet)

Why he might be annoying:

His slogan was 'Augmentation, not automation.'
He patented the mouse under the user unfriendly name 'X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.'
He said of his part in computer technology: 'After all those dark and lonely years, where I really wondered what I was doing -- if anyone was hearing what I was saying -- to have something like this happen is wonderful. I could go another 50 years.'

Why he might not be annoying:

He was a Navy electronics technician during World War II.
He earned a PhD at UC-Berkeley (1955).
He introduced NLS (oN-Line System) a fore runner to outline editors, hypertext linking, tele-conferencing, word processing, e-mail and user configurability and programmability (1968).
He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1998).
Research: Tim Howard

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Cracked.com's 16 Overlooked Deaths of 2013 (Ranked: 6)
• Followers of est
• I am Norwegian-American
• I Attended Oregon State University
• I Attended University of California, Berkeley
• I Died in 2013 (Ranked: 87)
• I Married in 2008
• Inventors
• Look at Me, I'm Thirsty
• Profiles 3501-3750 (Ranked: 3644)
• Seamen
• Sigma Phi Fraternity

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 65 Votes: 50.77% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 18 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 29 Votes: 48.28% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 23 Votes: 43.48% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 103 Votes: 44.66% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 98 Votes: 47.96% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 277 Votes: 44.04% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 300 Votes: 43.33% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 678 Votes: 42.77% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 2639 Votes: 40.96% Annoying