Examples

Eight groups, one to eight people, every one a real page you can open.

The point of putting everyone on a single page is the comparison: whose major version is about to roll over, who shares a birthday with whom, how far apart two people really are once you stop counting in years.

• Tim Berners-Lee

  UNIT 01

  One person, one number. He gave the web its addresses; this is his in three parts.

  1 personzen

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Open this one
• The Williams sisters

  UNIT 02

  Fifteen months apart, and you can read the gap straight off the minor version.

  2 peoplepolaroid

  Venus Williams · Serena Williams

  Open this one
• The Harry Potter three

  UNIT 03

  Cast as eleven-year-olds in 2001. All three are well into their fourth major release now.

  3 peopletarot

  Rupert Grint · Daniel Radcliffe · Emma Watson

  Open this one
• The Obamas

  UNIT 04

  What the site was built for: a household on one page, parents and children on the same scale.

  4 peoplefridge

  Barack · Michelle · Malia · Sasha

  Open this one
• Radiohead

  UNIT 05

  Same school, same band since 1985, and still inside a four-year spread.

  5 peoplenixie

  Philip Selway · Ed O’Brien · Thom Yorke · Colin Greenwood · Jonny Greenwood

  Open this one
• The original six

  UNIT 06

  Two of them share a birthday seventeen years apart, so their patch numbers move in lockstep forever.

  6 peoplememphis

  Robert Downey Jr. · Mark Ruffalo · Jeremy Renner · Chris Evans · Chris Hemsworth · Scarlett Johansson

  Open this one
• BTS

  UNIT 07

  Seven people born inside five years. The minor versions bunch up; the patches scatter.

  7 peopledepartures

  Jin · Suga · J-Hope · RM · Jimin · V · Jungkook

  Open this one
• Eight language creators

  UNIT 08

  The people who gave us MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH in the first place, rendered in it.

  8 peopleterminal

  Bjarne Stroustrup · Larry Wall · James Gosling · Guido van Rossum · Anders Hejlsberg · Brendan Eich · Yukihiro Matsumoto · Rasmus Lerdorf

  Open this one

Every birthday here is public record; dates verified on 2026-09-09. Everyone listed is living — a version number that keeps incrementing for someone who has died is the wrong artefact to publish.