Techy? Sometimes. Funny? Often. Relevant? Always.

Last night we had the privilege of hosting a get-together at the Worthwhile office. 14 Senior Computer Science majors joined us for a night of food, fun, frivolity, and factoids (Doesn’t the alliteration make it sound so much more exciting?!). We even gave out Cody t-shirts to a lucky few.

Dan talked about the history of Worthwhile and what’s brought us to this point. Did you know that we were doing live radio streaming online in 1994? Everyone else doing that at the time was primarily in New York or California. We won’t tell you about our advanced technology at the time–you might just laugh. If you want to stop in and see the office sometime though, maybe we’ll show you the hardware that allowed us to be technological leaders of the age. I will tell you this: it involved an egg timer. A lot has changed since then!

Jared spoke about what he does as our Network Engineer. I’m so glad I heard this, because I always thought that the internet was composed of a series of tubes. I guess you learn something new every day. Thanks for setting me straight, Jared.

I was up last in our order of events, and I talked to the guys about some of our branding development changes and updates for our Code7 Software (look for future posts about this). I am learning so much about technological advances from our developers, but sometimes it’s still “geek speak” to me. The guys told me that they like to call it “133T speak.” I didn’t get it. I think most times I suffer from the ID-ten-T error.

We had a great time talking with these guys and getting to know them better. It’s exciting to see a new generation of developers on the verge of their careers. It will be wonderful to see where they end up!