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David Thorne
File:David Thorne 27bslash6 photo.jpg
Occupation	Writer, design director
Nationality	Australian
Period	2006-present
Genre	Satire, Fratire
Website
http://www.27bslash6.com/

David Thorne is an Australian humorist, satirist, internet personality and author. Thorne gained public recognition in late 2008 when he received massive attention for one of his stories, in which he tells a tale of a prankster who tries to pay his chiropractor's bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The vehicle for the story spread via email and shortly after people were flocking to his website 27b/6 (27bslash6). His website is a collection of various humorous stories and accounts from Thorne's own life. Thorne is also a self-published author, both writing and distributing the book titled The Internet is a Playground (2009) which is the complete collection of articles and emails from the 27bslash6 website including some articles too legally problematic to be on the website.

Thorne, who hails from Adelaide, South Australia, says that he has been a long-time fan of other online satirists like Ross Amorelli, Mil Millington and George Ouzounian (better known as Maddox), stating that they have all been a "constant source of amusement over the last few years." Much of Thorne's humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, often concerning his immediate family and work associates.

27bslash6

Thorne started the 27bslash6 website as a vehicle purely to annoy, as a support to trolling people on Facebook and other social networking sites under the pseudonym Tabitha Gnillort, the girl on the entry page of the site. {{citation}}: Empty citation (help) This juvenile behavior developed a small following and the content developed from that. The name of his website (27bslash6) was derived from the Terry Gilliam quote from his movie Brazil, where the term 27B-stroke-6 was used. Thorne states that he was unable to secure the word stroke so instead settled for the word slash. The website went from receiving a hundred hits a week from a small and consistent group of people, to gaining a larger mainstream audience — a few thousand hits a day — when the article I Wish I Had a Monkey was listed on the Bored At Work website. Following the spider drawing page being posted on Digg, the 27bslash6 server crashed after taking over half a million hits in a twenty four hour period before being moved to a dedicated server and has continued to receive large traffic since.

The spider drawing itself became so popular that it was auctioned off on eBay, where it was won by a user who posted a bid for US$10,000. But the user has said he has no intention of paying. When asked how he felt about the refusal of the buyer to pay, Thorne stated "The internet is a playground and I would not have it any other way." The spider email has also been featured on several television and radio programs including BBC's Have I Got News for You in the UK and the Late Show with David Letterman in the US. The news article regarding the spider email was voted most popular news story of 2008 in Australia where it received five times the views of any other article for the year.

Thorne has also had international success with several of his other articles from the 27bslash6 website such as Strata Agreement and Party in Apartment 3, which became so popular that it was read out during a prime time broadcast on BBC Radio in the United Kingdom and reprinted in over three hundred newspapers worldwide.

Thorne wrote his first book, The Internet is a Playground, a collection of articles from the website, as a way to generate income to hopefully turn his part-time passion into a full-time job of writing. Due to the popularity of Thorne's website, the book sold almost eight thousand copies in its first month of release and is now in its third revision.

Publications

The Internet is a Playground A collection of articles and more from 27bslash6.com (2009)

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