I have this fascination with Scott Banister. “Fascination” is too strong of a word for it, so I guess I should say “reoccurring curiosity” about Scott Banister.
I knew Scott Banister. Ryan introduced me to him early freshman year of college. He’s smart. He was big in the ACM, and founded the WebMonkeys sig there. Sophomore year he apparently quit bathing, but that’s something else.
Freshman or sophomore year he created Submit-It, a perl script and really crappy web form that submitted a url to every search engine known at the time. Pretty much Yahoo, Excite, and Altavista. (This was back in 1994 or 1995.)
Either the middle or the end of his sophomore year he dropped out and moved to The Valley.
He sold Submit-It to Link Exchange. Probably made a ton of cash.
He then went on to create Iron Port, take up bathing, but not shaving or cutting his hair. (I’m a hypocrite I know.)
He sold that to Cisco for $830 million in 2007.
I guess in a sense I compare myself to him. I don’t know why. Our lives are incredibly different, but I guess since I met him at 18, and he disappeared from my daily life at 19, it’s a bit odd, but it is what it is. Now in my defense, I don’t go google stalking him, it’s just that his name shows up in news articles I read. *sigh*
So what’s Scott Banister up to now?
Well he’s married to a girl named “Cyan,” but that’s not very interesting. So I’ll just say, in a word: Porn.
