Notch was a guy who developed Minecraft, got rich, then became an internet Nazi, and now we all say "Hatsune Miku created Minecraft".

This is the simple story but we forget one thing: Notch didn't make Minecraft. He honestly, truly does get undue credit, and everything I say below would still be true even if he wasn't a Nazi.

Let me explain:

• In 2009, Zachtronics (check them out if you like Redstone) released Infiniminer.
• In 2009, Notch began writing a clone of Infiniminer, which would become Minecraft. This became insanely popular.
• In 2010, he hired a few people, including Jens Bergensten.
• In 2011, Notch stepped down from Mojang (Minecraft), and left Jens in control of the rest.
• The Java code was so bad that the game was written from scratch for each port. These eventually coalesced into Bedrock Edition, the faster C++ port. The Java edition still exists because of the community modding ecosystem.

So,

• Notch did not have the original idea for Minecraft
• Notch was involved with Minecraft for two years of its 13+ year development
• Notches original work is generally considered Bad Coding
• If anyone should get the credit, it's Jebs (and even then, for leading a team to make Minecraft so good)