David Thorne (Author)

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David Thorne

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

He gained notoriety at the end of 2008 through the publication of various emails in which he tried to settle an open bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. This email exchange came into circulation as an image file and spread quickly (see also: Viral Marketing ). The server on which his website 27bslash6.com was located collapsed due to the high number of hits. His humorous articles contain stories from his life and often deal with his private environment.

Life

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published his book The Internet Is a Playground , which contains the articles from his website and what was previously unpublished.

27bslash6.com

The name of the website refers to the fact that George Orwell was living in Apartment 27b on the sixth floor when he wrote his novel in 1984 . 27bslash6.com contains humorous e-mail correspondence with various people, including an employee of his housing company or a neighbor who was brought in, whose reference to a housewarming party was "incorrectly" understood by Thorne as an invitation. Once on boredatwork.com the article "If I Had a Monkey" was released, the page views rose to 27bslash6.com of about 50 to more than 5,000 per week.

Publications

  • David Thorne: The Internet Is a Playground - A collection of articles and more from 27bslash6.com . Fontaine Press, 2009
  • David Thorne: I'll Go Home Then; It's warm and has chairs . 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 27bslash6.com
  2. ↑ ninemsn.com.au ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.ninemsn.com.au
  3. ↑ fontainepress.com
  4. ↑ thesun.co.uk
  5. ↑ 27bslash6.com
  6. ↑ David Thorne: The Internet Is a Playground - A collection of articles and more from 27bslash6.com , Fontaine Press, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Thorne, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer, satirist and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Geraldton , Western Australia