How !!Con Came to be!!
summary
A joke chat four years ago becomes a real conference: a website is registered for five years, two domains bought including bangbangcorn LLC, a simple CFP requires at least one exclamation mark in titles (later relaxed), Hacker School offers space so the event actually happens, sponsors like Comcast cut checks to the incorporated entity, and the conference emphasizes radical inclusivity with a strong code of conduct; it scales beyond the original prank and keeps running.
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