3 out of the 4 founding members started another microcompany (an ISP in the Northern Virginia area) way way back in 1995. We couldn't afford Solaris, learned about a free UNIX-like OS, and spent almost an entire day downloading it onto over 50 floppies for installation on an old 486 laptop with no cd-rom (thanks Slackware!). Since our inception, ThinkGeek has been acquired by the good folks at Andover.Net

We like what we are doing, and are extremely interested in the evolving culture surrounding the Internet. ThinkGeek just makes sense to us. We figure we'll try and sell stuff for programmers, tinkerers, coders, caffeine jockeys, hackers, ubergeeks and other various denizens of the net/night. We'll also try and sell some more professional geek clothing for those of you who dwell in corporate dementia.

We are going to make a conscious effort to reimburse the community which allowed us to start an ISP without purchasing expensive operating systems and hardware. We would also like to help promote the kind of freedom and advancement which free and open-source software provides. For starters, we have the Open Source Shirt which we intend to invest much effort, 100% of which the benefits will aid OpenSource.Org. We are also planning a rotating "geek god" section in which a community geek god designs a t-shirt which we will produce and sell entirely for the benefit of a particular open-source project/charity (designated by said geek god). Visit our Geek God section right now and check out the Alan Cox shirts...

We hope our site might also introduce geeks from other walks of life to open and free software concepts. Stop in for an 'HTML' shirt and leave wondering what that little Tux was all about kind of thing.

Well, despite our inane hatred of profiles, we link below to the ThinkGeek staff. Childhood pics and adult profiles of scott, willie, jen, and jon follow in ascending order of age, from the top:

Oh by the way, what operating system do you use?

Check out our collective favorite links right here.