Standing on the shoulders of giants. A warm, low-contrast dark theme for Omarchy built around ink on aged paper: sepia and cream foregrounds over a soft brown-black background, with a dusty terracotta accent.

This is for pioneers working on the computer pre-internet. (We'll do another series for Internet and later).

Seventeen portraits of the giants everything since was built on, drawn as ink on aged paper with technical diagrams of their contributions. Click any one for the full 6144×4096 wallpaper.

Alan Turing and John von Neumann computability and the stored-program computer	Linus Torvalds Linux kernel and Git
Ada Lovelace algorithmic computing and the Analytical Engine	Grace Hopper compilers and COBOL
Donald Knuth algorithms, TeX, and technical publishing	Barbara Liskov data abstraction and distributed systems
Margaret Hamilton Apollo flight software and software engineering	Dennis Ritchie C and Unix
Ken Thompson Unix and operating systems	Tim Berners-Lee the World Wide Web and hypertext
Niklaus Wirth Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon	Edsger Dijkstra structured programming and algorithms
John Backus FORTRAN, BNF, and compilers	C. A. R. Hoare program verification and Hoare logic
Adleman · Rivest · Shamir RSA public-key cryptography	Alan Kay Dynabook, Smalltalk, and object-oriented personal computing
Bill Joy vi, BSD Unix, TCP/IP, and Sun Microsystems

Research notes, source portrait credits, licenses, and generation details are in CREDITS.md.

omarchy theme install https://github.com/dhh/omarchy-giants-theme

Full ANSI palette in colors.toml. Icons are Yaru-wartybrown.