posted by Joe Polk at 10:17 PM /
Blekko. No, TechMan didn't swallow a bug. Blekko (blekko.com) is a new search engine that has among its founders three former classmates at Mt. Lebanon High School.
Rich Skrenta was a ninth-grader in 1982 when he decided to pull a prank on friends. He wrote a computer program called Elk Cloner on his Apple II and put it on a floppy disk that he handed out to friends. It turned out to be the first known computer virus "in the wild," that is, traveling from machine to machine.
After a career in the computer business, his latest venture is Blekko, and the name indicates that Mr. Skrenta has lost none of his mischievous sense of humor. Among the co-founders of the company are Michael Markson and Bob Truel.
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Rich Skrenta was a ninth-grader in 1982 when he decided to pull a prank on friends. He wrote a computer program called Elk Cloner on his Apple II and put it on a floppy disk that he handed out to friends. It turned out to be the first known computer virus "in the wild," that is, traveling from machine to machine.
After a career in the computer business, his latest venture is Blekko, and the name indicates that Mr. Skrenta has lost none of his mischievous sense of humor. Among the co-founders of the company are Michael Markson and Bob Truel.
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- blogs.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/news/techman/23110-blekko-odd-name-intersting-concept (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Labels: blekko, bob truel, michael markson, rich skrenta
5 Comments:
In somewhat related news, the founder of Groupon (also a Lebo native) is rumored to be in talks with Google regarding an acquisition.
It was reported yesterday that Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, plus $700 million in earnouts for its executives.
Well done!
Word is that after he sells he is going to underwrite a good chunk of the cost of the new high school. The only condition is that the team mascot become the "Fighting Groupons". We're saved! Thanks, Google!
Here's a thought, rather than spending thousands of $$$ asking residents what they think of the school district or community, maybe the board and commissioners should survey these ex-lebonaires (lebonites, leboburgers) why they didn't locate their headquarters here.
Successful homebred entrepeneurs that they are, they may provide some interesting insight.
Dean Spahr
Yeah! They might say that when they started to make some money they RAN OUT before the teachers union could get their sticky little fingers inside of their wallets!
Do YOU really want to use a search engine affiliated with the man who invented the first computer virus and gave it to his high school classmates?
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