During one Chicago inspection, a Spanish-language interpreter and an OSHA inspector tripped over each other and a housekeeper as she vacuumed a room.

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It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.

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It's the sort of mix of appreciation and amusement that can only happen on the modern Web, evoking memories of insta-famous folks, ranging from frustrated flight attendant Steven Slater to NASA "Mohawk Guy" Bobak Ferdowski to Lydia Callis, the hyper-animated sign-language interpreter for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who found Web fame during Superstorm Sandy.

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They wrote an interpreter for the Basic programming language that would run on the Altair and showed it to Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, which manufactured the Altair.

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Visiting Congo for the first time without knowing the local language, Kiswahili, I was dependent on my talented interpreter Fidel for putting into words my countless questions and gratitude to the people I interviewed.

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