ThinkGeek - Gadgets and Apparel for the Geek
What's the deal with this whole ThinkGeek thingy?
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. ThinkGeek
started as a way to serve a market that was passionate about
technology, from programmers, engineers, students, lovers of open
source, to the masses that helped create the behind-the-scenes Internet
culture.
Three out of the four founding ThinkGeek 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. Promptly thereafter, ThinkGeek
was acquired by the good folks at Andover.Net who through an
acquisition and a bunch of name changes, is now known as Geeknet. So
we're part of a cool gaggle of sites including slashdot.org,
sourceforge.net, linux.com, and freshmeat.net. Pretty nice company to
be amongst, eh? We're pretty proud of it!