Persson fell in with a crowd of schoolboy programmers when he was thirteen, and they competed with one another to create the most impressive effects on their Atari STs.
So an RSS reader like Google's remained in the hands of the tech elite, the domain of the IT crowd, the programmers, the researchers, the journalists.
"For the past few weeks," Mr. Stallman told the crowd of students, faculty and fellow programmers, "I have felt like an author whose book was fortuitously banned".
In a makeshift office — a living room crowded with desks, monitors and a beanbag chair — a handful of programmers are hacking away on computers, aiming to make their mark on the multibillion-dollar financial services industry.
Nanosatisfi has lined up hundreds of programmers, ranging from individual citizen scientists to universities, and is already planning a third satellite launch for November.This week another start-up mobilised an even bigger crowd.
I started as a programmer, like many others, and then supervised groups of programmers.
Bitcoin, digital currency created by an anonymous computer programmer or group of programmers known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
The discussion moved on to the role of programmers.
It captured the imagination of a generation of programmers.
