The Silicon Apartment

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title= The Silicon Apartment


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author= Mechael
url= http://siliconapartment.com
rss= http://siliconapartment.com/english/feed/cartoon.xml
status= Updates twice a week
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publisher=
first= 2008-06-28 [http://siliconapartment.com/english/0001.html]
last=
genre= technology and geek humor
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"The Silicon Apartment" is a webcomic created by Mechael. The cartoon, produced up to twice a week, concentrates on the Story around Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are forced to live together in an Apartment in Silicon Valley, California.

tory

The made-up story behind ""The Siliconapartment"" is based upon the idea of Walt Mossberg on the retirement Party of Bill Gates. He had the Idea, to put Bill Gates and Steve Jobs together in an Apartment with Cameras and see what will happen between the two. see also Big Brother

Host

For the english Version, the "Host" is for every Episode Tech Journalist Walt MossbergFor the german Version, the role of the Host is taken by the german Tech Journalist [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Schnurer' 'Georg Schnurer"]

Guest Appearances

[http://siliconapartment.com/english/0003.html "Episode 3"] , [http://siliconapartment.com/english/0014.html "14"] : Steve Ballmer
[http://siliconapartment.com/english/0007.html "Episode 7"] : Steve Wozniak
[http://siliconapartment.com/english/0015.html "Episode 15"] : Jerry Seinfeld

Characteristics

As a special characteristic should be mentioned, that Steve Jobs' Speech balloons are written in Apple Myriad, while Bill Gates talks in Comic Sans which was mentioned in [http://siliconapartment.com/english/0001.html "Episode 1"]

Author

On the About-section [http://siliconapartment.com/english/about.html] of The Silicon Apartment it is stated, that Mechael has changed his first Name from Michael to Mechael by forging his Birth Certificate. He is born in a small bavarian town in 1972 and worked as a Auto mechanic, Salesman, Designer and worked at Apple Inc. for two and a half years.

External links

* [http://siliconapartment.com "The Silicon Apartment"]
* [http://siliconapartment.com/english/press.html "Press release of The Silicon Apartment"]
* [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2008/06/silicon-apartment.html "Featured at Fake Steve Jobs"]
* [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25394157461 The Silicon Apartment at Facebook]