dugsong

I'm guessing you mean non-security technologies? How about consumer P2P?

See Joseph Menn's book on Napster for the backstory behind MP3 file sharing (many of us w00w00 folks were involved, including guys like "minus", who stole the Winamp source code off my friend Ian Rogers' laptop).

Other example I can think of - anakata and The Pirate Bay, which is sort of mainstream, I guess (!)

learn more about Ann Arbor's hacker culture and community at http://a2geeks.org/

we're trying to get a bit more organized around here, and be better neighbors to our startup friends in the area (publicizing our events, and partnering with others in the region - e.g. hosting a TechCocktail.com event here in March, and supporting the TechNow09.com event in Royal Oak in April).

thanks for the boost, Tom. Zingerman's Roadhouse on me, the next time you're in town. :-)