This information is incomplete, but, I feel that Jennings needs to be recognized.

Here are some incidental, nontechnical tidbits of information about Tom Jennings.

• He is an anarchist.
• He worked on the original Phoenix BIOSes that made clone PCs possible.
• He started The Little Garden internet, kicking off the low-price bulk net connection revolution.
• He was involved with the Gilman Street Project in Berkeley, a collectively run nightclug, where bands like Green Day, Rancid/Operation Ivy, Beatnigs/Michael Franti, Neurosis, and The Mister T Experience started out.
• He was involved with Homocore Zine, and he's gay.
• He's an artist.
• He wrote FidoNet
• He started Shred of Dignity, a skateboarder's civil rights group.