posted by Joe Polk at 10:17 PM /
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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
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