Seven Wonders of the IT World

C.G. Lynch writes "The computer closest to the North Pole. The most intriguing data center. The biggest scientific computing grid. The little kernel that rocked the world. CIO.com has compiled a list of Seven Wonders of the IT World, some of the most impressive and unusual systems on the planet (and beyond)."

Re:More than you might suspect...

[rk]

"After all, Google has been competing with NSA for PhD mathematicians for some time now (and winning) and it seems like a natural fit."

If only the NSA would offer stock options and a splashy IPO, I'll bet they could get some of those candidates back.

Juniper

[Anonymous Coward]

Voyager 1: "Places it's dropped by: Juniper and Saturn"

Wonder #8

[turgid]

Why anyone pays money for anything from IBM, Microsoft. Oracle or MySQL AB.

Re:#8...

[Spy der Mann]

Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer and his Flying Chair Routine.

The article said WONDERS, not HORRORS.

Re:Slightly Dissapointed

[lucabrasi999]

I dont know about other slashdotters but I was rather unimpressed with the 7 wonders of the IT world

I agree. My name isn't on the list ANYWHERE!!! Geez, come on, people!

Re:120F in North Pole?

[UbuntuDupe]

That's when Chuck Norris tracks fugitives there.

Re:The list

[idontgno]

No; I for one thought CueCat belonged in that slot.

Re:120F in North Pole?

[Yvanhoe]

It can't be 120F in North Pole, it is outside US. If something it would be 49C.

Re:New list needed

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree...

So I'm compiling a top ten list of reasons to stop making 7 Wonders of the world lists

1. Wasted bandwidth
2. They're only for pageview whores
3. Most of the items are only 'wondrous' because people wonder why the hell its on the list.
4. If anything really is that wondrous, humans will probably destroy it.
5. Google will sell the #1 spot to someone else.
6. I.T. is moving so fast that in a few months, most will be obsolete.

thats as far as I got.

Re:Small computer running Vista

[This_Is_My_Happening]

The Voyager computer is the only one that will still be impressive in 5 years.

Just wait. In ~250 years when it comes back home [wikipedia.org] it will be even more impressive!

Forgotten Wonder

[Bastardchyld]

The lamest one was "small computer that runs Vista".

I agree as well, although a better wonder, and slightly more in touch with reality, would have been "any computer that runs Vista well"

Re:New list needed

[maxwell demon]

I agree...

So I'm compiling a top ten list of reasons to stop making 7 Wonders of the world lists

1. Wasted bandwidth
2. They're only for pageview whores
3. Most of the items are only 'wondrous' because people wonder why the hell its on the list.
4. If anything really is that wondrous, humans will probably destroy it.
5. Google will sell the #1 spot to someone else.
6. I.T. is moving so fast that in a few months, most will be obsolete.

thats as far as I got.

Ok, I'll finish it for you:

7. It will suffer from the Slashdot effect.
8. Most Slashdot posters won't read it anyway.
9. ???
10. Profit!

Re:The list

[Repton]

I would have put "The Internet" on the list, personally.

It gives you a research lab in all your cities too :-)

Re:Forgotten Wonder

[Hotawa Hawk-eye]

I'd imagine there are computers inside Microsoft running Windows Vista Internal Edition well. Windows Vista IE is like normal Vista, with one small change [gpf-comics.com].

Re:I hope...

[Nazlfrag]

It was an amazing concept. Who would have thought to make a personal music player using a pocket sized playback device that you listened to through headphones? A truly revolutionary device.

"Google's mum"

[ContractualObligatio]

"Number of servers: Google's mum."

The correct phrase is "keeping mum".

"Google's mum" is what you would say when implying intimate knowledge of Mrs Google, or perhaps her tendency to wear sturdy footwear.

Re:More than you might suspect...

[DanielJosphXhan]

The entire US government should IPO in chunks. Really, shareholding is a much more accurate form of representation that what we have now, and would allow corporations to actually and clearly own and control the state instead of doing so tacitly.

I mean, it just makes sense.