interviews
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How Craig Newmark Went From Craigslist Creator To Internet Do-Gooder
Craigslist is used to find apartments, pets and love connections. Started in 1995 by its namesake, Craig Newmark, as an emailed newsletter circulated among friends, it’s grown to become the proxy classifieds page for people all over the world. Craig isn’t running things there anymore, but he’s still very much involved in the company.
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Kevin Mitnick Tells How He Got His Start As The World’s Most Notorious Hacker
Kevin Mitnick was one of the first internationally known hackers, one of the early wizards who struck the fear of the gods in the machine into regular people. He hacked Los Angeles, Motorola, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens before finally being caught by the FBI.
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Gizmodo Asks Dr Karl About His Geek Origins [Video]
Dr Karl is many things — an Australian National Living Treasure, recipient of the Ignobel prize, writer of many books, and the nation’s leading science geek. But how did it all start?
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John Cleese: ‘Most Of The Gadgetry Is Of No Interest To Me At All’
He’s a comedy legend of five decades standing and a fervent advocate for trying new things. But while he’s a happy iPhone owner and has played Q’s offsider/successor in two Bond flicks, John Cleese is by his own admission not much of a gadget freak.