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The history of the hackathon - talk version 2 revised for HackCon 2014 - we talk about the origins of the hacker movement with hobbyist computer clubs all of the way through to modern hackathons
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HI. I’M JON GOTTFRIEDDeveloper Evangelist at twilio
Hacker Historian !
@JonMarkGo
HISTORY | GREP ‘HACKATHON’
BY JON GOTTFRIED
FOR HACKCON 2014
1975
HACKATHONS PER MONTH ON HACKERLEAGUE
1982 - DREXEL UNIVERSITY
1983
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999
OPENBSD
• June 4-6, 1999
• Focus on IPSEC
• Calgary, Alberta
• 10 developers
• communal
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
• June 15-19, 1999
• Palm V
• John Gage challenge
• competitive
HACKATHONS != STARTUPS
2005 - SUPER HAPPY DEV HOUSE
2006 - YAHOO!
2007 - STARTUP WEEKEND
2009 - MUSIC HACK DAY
2010 - HACKNY
2010 - TECHCRUNCH DISRUPT
2011 - PENNAPPS
2013 - MEGA MHACKS
WHAT IS NEXT?
HACKING IS ART
THANK YOU!Jon Gottfried
Developer Evangelist at twilio @JonMarkGo
jon@twilio.com
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