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Who originally started MacNN?

· General · 46 posts · Jul 5, 2004 — Jul 7, 2004 View original thread ↗

#1 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 02:53

Just wondering ...

#2 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 02:58

obviously the cnn guys...

#3 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 04:41

Monesh

#4 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 05:10

Someone reeeeeally creative. MacNN. Heh.

#5 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 10:21

Will be looking forward to the answer. It would be nice to know a little about the founder.

#6 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 10:31

I know who owns it right now, I assume he also started it.

#7 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 10:41

It was Zimphire

#8 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 10:47

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Originally posted by dampeoples:
It was Zimphire

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

#9 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:00

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Originally posted by KrazyEvilGoat:
I know who owns it right now, I assume he also started it.

Well? Do tell ...

#10 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:08

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Originally posted by BasketofPuppies:
Monesh

Correct, Monish* started MacNN.

#11 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:13

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Originally posted by dampeoples:
It was Zimphire

Suddenly it all made sense now

#12 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:24

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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Correct, Monish* started MacNN.

Does he now own it? Just curious, for some reason I got the feeling MacNN was a non profitable site, one that survived on community donations and the like. I know I have never clicked on an ad, let alone purchased anything from an advertiser.

#13 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:27

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Originally posted by Nagittar:
Does he now own it? Just curious, for some reason I got the feeling MacNN was a non profitable site, one that survived on community donations and the like. I know I have never clicked on an ad, let alone purchased anything from an advertiser.

A quick Google will give the scoop. Not hard too find.

#14 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:28

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Originally posted by dampeoples:
It was Zimphire

I told you not to tell.

#15 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:40

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Originally posted by dampeoples:
It was Zimphire

You know, that's actually believable!

At roughly 28 posts a day one could believe he doesn't have time for anything except Macnn.

#16 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 11:58

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Originally posted by KarlG:
You know, that's actually believable!

At roughly 28 posts a day one could believe he doesn't have time for anything except Macnn.

28 posts a day.. would take probably less than a hour to accomplish.

What for ever do I do with the other 23 hours of my day!

#17 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 12:03

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Originally posted by Zimphire:
28 posts a day.. would take probably less than a hour to accomplish.

What for ever do I do with the other 23 hours of my day!

I think it's more of 23 hours here, one hour free

#18 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 12:05

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Originally posted by Adam Betts:
I think it's more of 23 hours here, one hour free

As opposed to 5.47 posts a day?

#19 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 12:06

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Originally posted by Nagittar:
Does he now own it?

No.

#20 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 12:06

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Originally posted by Adam Betts:
I think it's more of 23 hours here, one hour free

#21 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 12:52

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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Correct, Monish* started MacNN.

So anything else you can say about the Creator? Just curious.

#22 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 13:01

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Originally posted by Zimphire:
I told you not to tell.

My bad, it just slipped out

#23 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 13:09

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Originally posted by PowerMacMan:
Correct, Monish* started MacNN.

Monish ^^

"Zimphire, I am your father."

#24 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 13:11

No, no, that can't be, and stuff.

#25 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 18:00

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Originally posted by Nagittar:
Does he now own it?

No, but he's the Editor in Chief. go here.

#26 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 18:13

It began on the BIG BANG princple. Some guy bumped into the WorldWideWeb, knocked it over and there was a big bang. Macnn soon evolved from a pile of mucus sludge.

#27 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 18:53

Heres the history as I know it:

(note, this may all be complete bs, feel free to correct me if anything/everything is wrong.)

Monish Started Macnn

Some other company bought it, macnn went downhill, returned to original owner

Monish teamed up with misha? and macnn continued

misha/monish got in a fight (something about a stereo at one's house) misha left, started his own lacklustre website

macnn continues to strive.

#28 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 19:40

Yep, I knew it was Monish.

I don't know him personally, so maybe he's a great guy, but I don't like him.

#29 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 19:43

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Originally posted by xi_hyperon:

Monish ^^

"Zimphire, I am your father."

Xi wins the "Posting A JPEG That Looks Like It Was Originally Converted To A GIF" award. We salute you!

#30 Mon, 5 Jul 2004 - 19:56

from this thread

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well, you see, it's like this:
a girl macnn and a boy macnn meet in a bar one day. they hit it off. girl macnn thinks the boy is pretty cute. so she agrees to go back to boy macnn's place for some "coffee". a slow dissolve to a windowed sunset later and macnn.com was conceived.
and yes, there was a custody battle (some would call it an attempted kidnapping) a year ago, but it was resolved without longterm psychological damage to the macnn child.