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Skrenta graduated from Northwestern University . Between 1989 and 1991 he worked at Commodore Business Machines with Amiga Unix . Between 1991 and 1995 he worked at Unix System Labs and from 1996 to 1998 with IP-level encryption at Sun Microsystems . He later left Sun and became one of the founders of Open Directory Project . He stayed onboard and worked on the directory as well as with Netscape Search, AOL Music and AOL Shopping. He has been involved in VMS Monster, an old MUD for VMS . VMS Monster was the inspiration for TinyMUD . He is also known for his role in developing TASS , an ancestor of Tin , the popular threaded Usenet newsreader for Unix systems. In 1989 he started working on a multiplayer simulation game. In 1994 it was launched under the name ''Olympia'' as a pay-for-play game by Shadow Island Games . He was CEO of Topix.net . He currently heads a new startup company, Blekko Inc. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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