Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Wired News: IRC Channel as Startup Incubator

Wired News: IRC Channel as Startup Incubator: "In the past few years, some of the most revolutionary software emerged not from Silicon Valley startups or high-powered universities, but from a humble online chat room.
Many in the tech industry are beginning to recognize that a string of influential concepts can be traced to a single Internet Relay Chat channel called #Winprog. "

- IRC has been doing this since late 1995. For Apple it was #Macintosh

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