The vBulletin kid?

[YoungCoder]

Hi there,

Is vBulletin one of those huge things that was initially programmed by a teenager up in his bedroom? Or was it initially programmed by an Indian for freelance work at $0.10/hour?

Regards,
YoungCoder

[Matthew Gordon]

No. It was originally programmed by John.

[ajaspers]

John was a teenager (19) when he started coding vBulletin 1.

[Floris]

Disclaimer: No Indian kids or animals were hurt during the programming of this software (to our knowledge).

[Sn2]

He was thought to have been in a sweat shop for programmers at the time being paid only 1 cocoa bean and a turnip a week.

[Neocorteqz]

I'm curious myself to see how it all started. Well of course a brief summary, not the whole story, I'm sure that would take too long.

[Ken Iovino]

I'm curious myself to see how it all started. Well of course a brief summary, not the whole story, I'm sure that would take too long.

It would be a good reading.

[Scott MacVicar]

John and James ran a website called vbworld that used UBB (now known as UBB.classic) performance was generally bad since it was all flatfile. John created a clone in PHP and MySQL, he tried to sell it to Infopop. They said no, john and james decided to market it after some badgering from Martin.

vB 1.1 was the first public release back in 2000~

All the current development staff were people who wrote modifications at the time, order in which they were employed was Mike, Freddie, Kier, Me. At least I think that is the order

Mike, Freddie, Kier worked on vB2
Mike, Freddie, Kier and myself on vB3

[YoungCoder]

Thats a great story, i'm going to read it to my kids at night, also my name is Freddie

[DirectPixel]

Hi there,

Is vBulletin one of those huge things that was initially programmed by a teenager up in his bedroom? Or was it initially programmed by an Indian for freelance work at $0.10/hour?

Regards,
YoungCoder

Check out the following:

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/john-percival-vbulletin

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/interview-kier-darby-vbulletin

[DJexero]

John and James ran a website called vbworld that used UBB (now known as UBB.classic) performance was generally bad since it was all flatfile. John created a clone in PHP and MySQL, he tried to sell it to Infopop. They said no.

Wonder what they would be saying now?
"Damn we should of bought it!"

[Vtec44]

JelSoft should turn around and purchase InfoPop! LOL

[_| () R | Z]

how old are john and james?

[DJexero]

JelSoft should turn around and purchase InfoPop! LOL

Waste of money, whats so good about Infopop?
well, it would be good to buy it and shut it down

[Hayven]

I bet infopop really feels bad now