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Story behind ThinkGeek store (About us)
ThinkGeek started as an idea. A simple idea to
create and sell stuff that would appeal to the thousands
of people out there who were on the front line and
in the trenches as the Internet was forged. From
programmers, engineers, students, lovers of open
source, to the masses that helped create the behind-the-scenes
Internet culture. ThinkGeek started as a way to
serve a market that was passionate about technology.
Three out of the four founding members started an
ISP in the Northern Virginia area way way back in
1995. We couldn't afford Solaris, learned about
a free UNIX-like OS, and spent almost an entire
day downloading it onto over 50 floppies for installation
on an old 486 laptop with no cd-rom (thanks Slackware!).
After a few years with the ISP gig, the ThinkGeek
idea popped into our heads, and, operating out of
a spare room at the ISP office we setup shop and
launched the site on Friday the 13th, 1999...
A month or so later we were Slashdotted. And
promptly thereafter ThinkGeek was acquired by the
good folks at Andover.Net who have since been acquired
by the great folks at VA Software. Andover.Net eventually
became OSTG - the central entry point for the Open
Source community's favorite web sites such as ThinkGeek
(hey that's us!), slashdot.org, linux.com, sourceforge.net,
and freshmeat.net. Pretty nice company to be amongst,
eh? We're pretty proud of it!
All the founding members are still in town, and
we've continued to grow our product line, expand
our staff (including several canines) and enhance
the way we interface with customers. Who would have
thought...
Shipping: Internationally!
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