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Great Geeks
Steve Wozniak (Woz)
The brilliant mind of Woz just shrugged off the Geek Apocalypse as yet another opportunity to make cool stuff. He adapted Babbage's Difference Engine to run as the wind-up iMac, and is currently promoting his new machine, the MacAbacus.
first appearance		 Arthur C. Clarke
Sci-fi writer, brilliant visionary, and Real Millennium booster.
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Stephen Hawking
The physicist who has discovered there is more to life than a cartoon universe!
first appearance		 William Gibson
Once a successful sci-fi author, his addiction to eBay drove him to near madness. Currently rebuilding his life as owner/operator/haggler of "Barter Overdrive".
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Tim Berners-Lee
Creator of the WWW, theTim is now weaving a new Web on his loom, and developing a new network based on cans and string technology!
first appearance		 Doug Engelbart
The revolutionary geek who augmented our input devices... with the invention of the mouse.
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OS Geeks and CEO's
Steve Jobs
The y2k bug had no effect on Steve's world famous Reality Distortion Field! Once a wound-up iCEO, Steve is now promoting his company's wind-up iMacs.
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 Linus Torvalds
The nicest guy in the do-it-yourself software biz! Always the tinkerer, his latest fetish, the penguin-powered Linacus, is proving popular amongst the Open Bead Movement.
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Robert Young
CEO of Red Hat.
first appearance		 Jean-Louis Gassée
CEO of BeOS. A very imaginative and creative fellow. He created an incredible, versatile BeAbacus, but it just doesn't get as much press as the LinuxAbacus. first appearance
Steve Ballmer
first appearance		 David Ditzel
He spent millions on the EniacAbacus, only to fill it with GoGo dancers and watch it blast off into space as the Go-Go Cube. first appearance
Eric Raymond
leader of the Open Source Movement, and founding member of Geeks With Guns, he now devotes his time to teaching Kurt's 8-bit program for recovering geeks, ...and shooting stuff.
first appearance		 Mike Dell
After the fall of civilization, started selling Abacuses Directly out of his covered wagon.

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John maddog Hall
Open Source Evangelist, and cool dude.
first appearance		 Richard Stallman
Head of Free Software Movement. Does an interesting Saint Ingnuious. :)
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Robert Bishop
Chairman and chief executive officer of SGI.
first appearance		 Macromedia executives
Rob Burgess, Norman Meyrowitz, and Betsy Nelson.
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The Slashdot Guys
Rob (CmdrTaco) Malda
first appearance		 Jeff (Hemos) Bates
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Jonathan (CowboyNeal) Pater
first appearance		 Robin (Roblimo) Miller
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Jon Katz
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More Cameos!
John Carmac
Once a superstar programmer of idsoftware fame, John suffered serious emotional trauma after the Geek Apocalypse. He eventually found his way to Kurt's, where after intense geek therapy, he adopted the persona of the Quake Wizard. Yes, he designed and built those glasses himself, and no, sorry, but they are not for sale at the Geek Culture webstore. first appearance		 Negroponte
Visionary, author, and former head geek of MIT's Media Lab, he completed Geek Retraining and is now operating a very successful ice-cream stand.
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Mike Popovic
The BeDope guy!
Peter Norton
Developer of Norton's Anti-Pest for the Abacus.
first appearance		 "Kerri" the Tubes Rock Girl
(formally the MacAbacus Girl, and the MacWarehouse Girl).
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Entertainment Celebs
Lucy Lawless
She joined Martha Stewart's army, but was quickly distracted by the charm of Linus Torvalds.

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 Mel Gibson
A former actor, Mel used his experience in post-apocalyptic films to gain support amongst the tribal road warriors that flourished after Y2K. Current allegiance is to Lord Stewart.

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Tiffany Shlain
Former Webbie Award diva, she now hosts the Beadie Awards.
first appearance		 George Lucas
Creator of Star Wars, his company LucasArts was devastated by the Y2K bug. George is currently touring his Star Wars Episode II as a puppet show.

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The Lone Gunmen
Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, and Bruce Harwood.
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first appearance by Dean		 David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson
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Gene Roddenberry
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Rockers!
The Beatles
First Appearance		 Mick Jagger
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Roger Daltry
First Appearance		 Pete Townsend
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Allan Freed
The man credited with coining the phrase Rock n' Roll... with Tubes's help of course.
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Ghosts of Geeks
The Ghost of Charles Babbage
Inventor of the world's first mechanical computer. Somewhat miffed at the whole microprocessor thing, Charles had a good laugh at the stroke of midnight Dec 31st 1999.
first appearance		 The Ghost of Ada Byron
Ada Byron is perhaps best known as the first computer programmer. She worked with Charles Babbage, writing about and working on his Analytical Engine. Together, the pair also came up with what they considered an "infallible system" for beating the odds at the horse races... oops, not so infallible!
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Alan Turing
first appearance		 Leon Theremin
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Thomas Edison
first appearance		 Nicola Tesla
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Grace Hopper
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Tubes visitation		 Albert Einstein
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Robert A. Heinlein
first appearance		 Isaac Asimov
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Marie Curie
first appearance		 Hedy Lamarr
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Sir Isaac Newton
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