About Marco Arment

I'm currently the lead developer at Tumblr, a fun web startup in New York City that lets people create tumblelogs. My tumblelog is updated much more frequently with much more content than Marco.org because it's so much easier. Go sign up. You'll see what I mean.

I also created Instapaper. (Read later.)

From 2004-2006, I was a developer at Vivisimo, the company behind Clusty, in Pittsburgh.

I graduated from Allegheny College in 2004 with a B.S. in Computer Science.

I conserve exclamation points and avoid semicolons.

Contributors

While I write much of the site's content, some friends also write articles and reviews: Dan (a lot), Slartibartfast (occasionally), Sparky (twice), and Dirk Gently (who only wrote a single article, the infamous Almond Brothers concert review).

History

Marco.org began in May of 2000 as a simple bulletin board for my friends and me, about to graduate from high school, to communicate easily from our respective colleges. The site has undergone many overhauls in both content and presentation.

The Marco.org domain was previously owned by Marco Technologies, a manufacturer of ophthalmic equipment. They let the domain expire before I purchased it. I only learned about it because their customers kept emailing me asking for more information on products that cost more than most houses. I offered to sell the domain back to them in late 2000, but they declined. So don't be confused. Despite the serious nature of Marco.org, we do not, in fact, sell ophthalmic equipment.

What's with the cows?

They're ad cows. They help keep Marco.org running, so we like them a lot. You should, too.

Without ad cows, we wouldn't have milk to drink. Or web hosting. Or motivated authors.