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26 is a bit on the high end. Mark Zuckerburg was just shy of 20 when he created `thefacebook.com', and Bill Gates was about 19 1/2 when he founded Microsoft. But I’m not disregarding the achievement; Larry Page and Sergey Brin were about 25 when they founded Google.

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I'd say it's a lot easier to create a website than it is to create a computer in the 70's.

Oh for sure. Especially nowadays with YouTube, you have 14 year olds who learned programming and then made tens or even hundreds of thousands releasing a game on the iOS App Store. I did mention Bill Gates though.

There were 14 year old kids releasing C64 and ZX Spectrum games.

No one knew you were 14 when you put an add in Antic, Analog, etc. The funny thing is some of the 14 year old kids had better art and boxes than the big companies.

True, but there were other amazing computer hardware folks that really don’t get much credit. For example, Jay Miner’s chip development on the Atari 8-bit machines. It would be amazing to get some history with other hardware wizards of the time.

Jay Miner got plenty of credit for the Amiga. His achievements at Atari (in the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computers) may have been less well known, but many Amiga fans know Jay Miner.

Written in PHP no less... Zuckerburg is nothing like Woz in terms of technical knowledge, acumen and ability. The comparision is almost an insult.

Nowhere in my post did I compare their projects. I compared their age. And there’s nothing wrong with using PHP as a framework for your website. Mediawiki is written in PHP and Wikimedia’s websites (including Wikipedia) run on Mediawiki. Just because a language is bad doesn’t mean the projects written in them are bad. Also, AFAIK, Facebook doesn’t run on PHP anymore.

I think everybody's acting offended because you're comparing their ages when they made something successful, not what they made.

The what is a huge nuance, I personally think Zuckerberg would be able to create a device like this at this point in time.

While you were just comparing ages you accidentally bundled achievements and that's a big no no.

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