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His mother can picture him still -- a computer prodigy who taught himself to program when he was 6, hunched over the keyboard, a programming book in front of him, struggling to pronounce the word "variables."
He let people know what was going on in his life -- "News of Brad" -- but grew frustrated with the time it took to update it; so he wrote a program that would make getting the word out as simple as double-clicking, typing an entry and submitting.
Birth of a subculture In March 1999, he posted his first time-stamped entry. "This is a test . . ." And it wasn't long before dorm friends wanted to be able to post up-to-the-minute updates, too. Fitzpatrick decided to turn it into a Web-based service, jokingly adopted a goat named Frank as a mascot, and LiveJournal was born.
His mother can picture him still -- a computer prodigy who taught himself to program when he was 6, hunched over the keyboard, a programming book in front of him, struggling to pronounce the word "variables."
He let people know what was going on in his life -- "News of Brad" -- but grew frustrated with the time it took to update it; so he wrote a program that would make getting the word out as simple as double-clicking, typing an entry and submitting.
Birth of a subculture In March 1999, he posted his first time-stamped entry. "This is a test . . ." And it wasn't long before dorm friends wanted to be able to post up-to-the-minute updates, too. Fitzpatrick decided to turn it into a Web-based service, jokingly adopted a goat named Frank as a mascot, and LiveJournal was born.
