Adam Curry

Adam Curry (born September 3, 1964) is a broadcasting and Internet personality best known for his stint from 1987 to 1994 as a video jockey on the premier music video channel MTV. In the mid-1990s, Curry was a World Wide Web entrepreneur and one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer a Web site. In the 2000s, he helped pioneer podcasting.

The Web and MTV.com

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In the early 1990s, as the World Wide Web was just beginning to gain mainstream attention, Curry began experimenting on the Net. He registered the then-unclaimed domain name "mtv.com" with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Web. Although sanctioned by MTV Networks, when Adam left to start his company OnRamp, MTV sued him for the domain name, which led to an out-of-court settlement.

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Domain name - MTV Networks

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Curry left MTV in 1994 and founded OnRamp, Inc., a Web design and hosting company. He eventually grew the company to 40 employees and sold it to THINK New Ideas, Inc., another company that he co-founded. He became Chief Technology Officer of THINK. In 1996, as the Internet was undergoing its legendary "bubble," the company made an initial public offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 400 people and have offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink, Inc. in a later merger.

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OnRamp - THINK New Ideas - Chief Technology Officer - 1996 - Initial public offering - NASDAQ - Answerthink

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