User:Abzloot/27bslash6

David Thorne,[1] is an Australian humorist, satirist, Internet personality, and author. David became an internet sensation in the late 2000s when one of his stories achieved massive attention whereby he tells a tale of a prankster who tries to pay his chiropractor bill with a drawing of a seven-legged spider. The vehicle for the story spreading was via email and shortly after people were flocking to his website 27b/6 (24bslash6). He is also a published author, both writing and ditributing 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 litigious to be on the website.

David, who hails from the major city of South Australia, Adeliade, says that he has been a long time fan of other online satirist's like Ross Amorelli, Mill Millington and internet god George Ouzounian (Maddox). He states that they have all been a "constant source of amusement over the last few years and I hunt their content almost religiously".

His comic filled website 24b/6 is a collection of various stories and accounts from David's own life where he has found humour and interest in even the most mundabe of sutuations. It is this sense of normalcy that has made him one of the most interesting and exciting writers on the internet day.

His initial piece of writing involving 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 – though he has no intention of paying up.

The name of his website (24bslash6) was derived from the Terry Gilliam quote from his movie Brazil where the term 24stroke6 was used. David states thet he was unable to use secure the word stroke so instead settled for the word slash.

Career
David works in the design and branding industry as design director for a small Adelaide agency.

24bslash6
David started the 24bslash6 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. This juvenile behavior developed a small following and the content developed from that.

The Internet is a Playground(2009)
David wrote his first book, The Internet is a Playground, as a way to generate income to hopefully turn his part time passion for writing into a full time job of writing.

External References
http://www.27bslash6.com