David Thorne

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Thorne
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Feb 23, 1972(1972-02-23)
Age	52
Birthplace	Geraldton
Country	Australia
Birth City	Western Australia
Horoscope	Aquarius

David Thorne Biography

David Thorne is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on February 23, 1972 in Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia. David R. Thorne (born 23 February 1972) is an Australian comedian, satirist, and Internet persona. The work of his has been presented on the BBC and on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Thorne received recognition from the public in the latter half of 2008 due to an email exchange where he tries to pay off the bill that is overdue with an illustration of seven-legged spider. The exchange went viral via social media and email websites, which led to the growth of traffic on the website of his 27b/6 (27bslash6). 27b/6 contains funny emails and essays about Thorne’s life. These essays, along with other essays, are featured in the book by Thorne, The Internet is a Playground. The book was published through Penguin Group and released on 28 April the book was released at number 4 in the New York Times Best Seller list.

The 3rd of March, the site was offline for several hours. Any attempt to access it was redirected to a webpage that said the account was shut down. Thorne wrote an article just a few days earlier , detailing the exchange of emails with an official in the South Australian E-Crime unit over an earlier piece in which Thorne stated that he had purchased drugs for sale for profit. After the exchange with the officer Thorne substituted the word “drugs” with cats in the initial piece to avoid facing the possibility of shutting the website down.

The name of Thorne’s website (27bslash6) is a reference to George Orwell’s address – Apartment 6, 27B Canonbury Square, Islington London. The phrase “27B stroke 6” is also used by Terry Gilliam in his movie Brazil. The phrase was later referenced in the 2015 film “Jupiter Ascending” as well as “Star Wars: Episode VIII: The Last Jedi”. 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 24-hour period before being moved to a dedicated server. The second server crashed following Thorne’s next article, “Party in Apartment 3”, in which Thorne repeatedly confirms he will attend a party he has not been invited to, before the site was moved to a third server in the US and has since continued to receive a large volume of traffic.

On the 25th of April, 2010 David Thorne created a Facebook event that was titled “Kate’s Birthday Party”. The hoax , celebrating the birthday of an Adelaide woman who was named Kate was, according to the story, deliberately left open to the public security settings, which allowed anyone to sign up. In the wake of several links being shared on the image boards 4chan and Reddit the event was attended by over 60,000 participants. Many blogs reported on the event as a case study of security issues in Facebook. Thorne designed the “I Attended Kate’s Party” T-shirt, and started selling it through his store online, while many Facebook groups were created as a result of the event. The event was originally set for Saturday, 1 May at 8:00pm, was eventually cancelled by Facebook.

David Thorne Net Worth

David Thorne is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Thorne 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The drawing of the spider became so well-known that it was sold on eBay in which a bidder offered a bid of $10,000, only to later say that the bid was not for paying. When asked about his feelings about the inability of the buyer to make payment, Thorne stated, “The internet is a playground and I would not have it any other way.” Spider emails have been featured on a variety of programs on radio and television such as the BBC’s Have I Got News for You in the UK as well as The Late Show with David Letterman in the United States. The news story about the spider email was named as the top news report during 2008 Australia in Australia, receiving five times as many views as any other news story of the year.

Thorne has also enjoyed international recognition for numerous other articles on the website 27bslash6 such like “Missing Missy”, a series of letters between Thorne and an office manager who needs an missing poster for her cat that has gone missing, “Strata Agreement”, and “Party in Apartment 3” was so well-liked that the article was read in a live broadcast in BBC Radio in the United Kingdom and was reprinted in over 300 newspapers across the globe. Thorne’s piece on an old client who contacted him with a request for work on behalf of a pro-bono basis titled “Simon’s Pie Charts” (November 2009) was such a huge viral sensation due to its being shared via social media sites and emails that it’s been classified as an example of one the best circulated on viral emails ever and has been shared on Twitter by numerous celebrities, read in radio broadcasts across in the UK, United States, and Germany and even was featured in The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Australian version of The 7pm Project in addition to Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

Thorne’s first book, a collection of articles from the website titled The Internet is a Playground, sold almost 80,000 copies in its first month of release. The book was originally picked up and released by a small Australian publisher named Fontaine Press. Disputes between Thorne and Fontaine Press regarding delivery and non-payment of author royalties caused Thorne to end his relationship with them a few months later. In 2011, the rights to publish the book, along with approximately 160 pages of new content, were purchased by Penguin Group US. Released on 28 April 2011, Penguin renamed the book The Internet is a Playground, Irreverent Correspondences of an Evil Online Genius and the book debuted at number four on The New York Times Best Seller list the following week.

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Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. David Thorne celebrates birthday on February 23 of every year.