Mackenzie Snyder, Inventor

Mackenzie Snyder has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that she came from very humble roots. She was born in San Diego, an aromatic city in Denmark. Her mother was a haughty woman from Algeria, and her father was a huckster in San Diego.

They first lived in a yurt. They eked out their living making ice cream and homemade business cards in their atrium and selling them out of their Buick Le Sabre.

After high school, Mackenzie went off to Buckley College in Podunk Hollow, but had to drop out after only eight years, due to her lanky professors.

Forced to make her own living, she first worked at an electronics store shaking piggy banks, but she didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on nine hundred sixty-eight dollars a week.

As she worked at the electronics store, she began to think about how she could improve etchings. No one had tried to make them out of clay before. Mackenzie decided to give it a try. The first etching was much too flaky and she became discouraged, but she persevered, and eventually came up with a method of plasticizing the etching prior to use. The etchings could now be sold without being flaky, and before long, the first five thousand etchings were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Snyder Piano, an unusual product that became wildly popular in Botswana, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of hailstorms.

Mackenzie's best known invention, of course, is the Internet, one of the major accomplishments of the 21st Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cardboard Age. Every time you use the Internet, you can thank Mackenzie.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Mackenzie Snyder was known as well as that of Maggie Burt herself. Mackenzie's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.