CTRL + ALT + DEL
Have you ever thought of the person who invented "CTRL + ALT + DEL" key combination.
"David Bradley"
He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues the world's PC users for decades This extraordinary IBM employee got retiried on Friday, 25th March 2005 after a prolong service of 29 years.
His formula forces obstinate computers to restart when they no longer follow other commands. By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working to create the debut.
The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the computer when it fails to respond the user Bradley wrote the code to make it work. Bradley says. "I did a lot of other things than Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but I'm famous for that one." His fame and success is achieved each time a PC user fails.
He Commented His relationship with Bill gates by saying "I may have invented it, but Bill gates made it famous by applying my formula when ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him CRASHES, thus I win when ever he looses..........."
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Thank you, David Bradley~
That's how we, back in the early 90's, would get every newbie comin' in the proverbial computer chatroom door of an AOL hole:
Irritating Newbie: How can I put those little smiley face things beside of my name too?
Smirking AOLer: Just push your CTRL ALT DEL buttons, all at the same time, and voila!
Irritating Newbie: .....................................................
And of course, 10 minutes later, you'd get cussed out IF they ever showed back up~ cheap entertainment, man~