The History of Slacks

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Andrew Keen: Slacks was invented by the same guy who made Flickr. He says once you get comfortable with it as a platform, you start instancing it and using it in other ways. The app launched in 2013 but is still very much an open-source tool that can be used to do any kind of work or social activity. It's been around for about five years; people have like six different slacks so they're doing for different stuff.

Several People Are Typing was mostly written pre-pandemic but failed to garner publisher interest until a virus locked us all inside our homes with nothing to turn to but our jobs and our friend-Slacks. It manages to perfectly encapsulate what it feels like to use Slack for anything, with a dash of creepypasta for good measure.

Our theme music was composed by Nick Lerangis.

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