And the winner is Tim Berners-Lee

The best clerihew celebrates, not Bill Gates, but a paragon whose contribution to IT has empowered all of us to create great and worthwhile things.

Over at Miss Conduct, the winner is announced:

Tim Berners-Lee
Invented HTTP
Thus the World Wide Web was born
For Nigerian Diplomats and porn.

I'm impressed by the way IT dominated an open clerihew contest. Obviously, I was too slack to produce any entries of my own, but here are one or two more suggestions for IT-related clerihews....

Linus Torvalds
Doesn't suffer from colds
I guess that comes from calling
Your child after Linus Pauling

Steve Jobs
Inspires hysterical mobs
They shout "Can I swap my phone
For an iPhone?"

I think Richard Stallman
Is not a small man
He writes code for free
And once sent an email to me

Alan Turing
Broke codes during
World War II
And never played the kazoo

I know you can do better...