thank you thales & whoever for derivatives

thank you amsterdam & whoever for stock exchanges

thank you msft for vb

thank you bell & whoever for linux

thank you stroustrup & whoever for c++

thank you darpa & whoever for tcp/ip

thank you cern & whoever for http

thank you mysql ab & whoever for mysql

thank you nscp & whoever for ssl, js

thank you goog for google, ajax, spdy, chrome

thank you stack for stack

thank you resig & whoever for jquery

thank you whoever for websockets

thank you thorson (& whoever?) for websocket++

damn you msft for .net