Today we’re celebrating around the Technical.ly Slack channel. It’s the 10th anniversary of Technical.ly’s founding in Philadelphia, marking a decade of local tech news and innovation community coverage.
It’s also making us a bit nostalgic for those when the communities we cover were getting off the ground against the backdrop of the nationwide recession that came to define a new generation of startups.
Just take a look at Baltimore, circa 2009: Coworking was getting off the ground as Beehive Baltimore started at Emerging Technology Centers in Canton. Then located at the Can Company, ETC was also the home of companies like Millennial Media, SmartLogic, mp3car, Localist andLookingglass. On the event circuit, joining Greater Baltimore Technology Council’s Tech Night were a new wave of events like Barcamp Baltimore, TEDxMidAtlantic, Refresh Baltimore, Ignite Baltimore and Maryland Tech Crawl. At the University of Maryland BioPark, the sign that now announces its presence to drivers on Martin Luther King Jr., Blvd. was installed. Just outside of town, agencies Fearless and Mindgrub that would later move into the city were also getting started.
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