David Thorne (writer)

David Thorne ( born February 13, 1972 in Geraldton, Western Australia ) is an Australian writer, satirist and graphic designers.

He achieved fame in late 2008 with the publication of several e- mails in which he sought an open account with a drawing of a spider siebenbeinigen to settle. This e -mail exchanges came as an image file into circulation and quickly spread (see also: Viral Marketing). The server on which his website 27bslash6.com was collapsed due to the many requests. His humorous articles included stories from his life and deal often with his private life.

Life

David Thorne was born in Geraldton. He currently lives in Adelaide, where he worked as a design director for an agency. In 2009 he published his book, The Internet Is a Playground, which contains the articles of his website and also hitherto unpublished.

27bslash6.com

The name of the website refers to the fact that George Orwell in Apartment 27b lived on the sixth floor when he wrote his novel 1984. 27bslash6.com contains humorous e- mail correspondence with various persons, including an employee of his residential society or added solid neighbor whose note is " mistakenly " understood in a house -warming party of Thorne as an invitation. After the article " If I Had a Monkey " was released on boredatwork.com, page views increased to 27bslash6.com of about 50 to about 5,000 per week.

Publications

• David Thorne: The Internet Is a Playground - A collection of articles and more from 27bslash6.com, Fontaine Press, 2009