Two Heads Are Better Than One

The paper examines the phenomenon of joint creativity involving several authors, with examples from various fields of activity. The focus is on information technologies, analyzing inventions from the late 20th century. Their authors are duos of outstanding professionals who combined the talents of a programmer and a manager. They were responsible for the continued development of the IT industry and radically changed the quality of the entire mankind’s way of life. The histories behind the emergence of famous computers, operating systems, the World Wide Web, and network navigation tools are briefly described.