ChatRoulette Creator Explains Why He Wanted To Remain Anonymous

{ Posted on Feb 18 2010 by John Carney }
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ChatRoulette is the maddeningly addictive service that allows you to just stumble upon random strangers and video chat with them.

Until recently, the origins were cloaked in secrecy. The New York Times actually got a hold of the creator, who turned out to be a 17-year-old Russian student named Andrey Ternovsky. 

Now Russia Today has an actual video interview with Ternovsky. He seems like a nice kid!

Ternovsky tells RT that he thought the site would get less respect from potential users if they knew it was created by one guy rather than a more sophisticated softward company.

 

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One Response to “ChatRoulette Creator Explains Why He Wanted To Remain Anonymous”

  1. By deyes-Spin The Cam on Mar 12, 2010 | Reply

    The young boy is such a brilliant boy. His ideas have made him famous and rich. Chatroulette is the latest internet invention which has gained so much popularity. According to the interviewed made available by New York Time, Andrey Tenovsky has never been to the USA , but would love to visit. He also said he has ideas for more \weird in a good sense\ features. The site itself isn’t much to look at, just bare bones text boxes and camera box, but the ideas behind it is great. He has been working with code right from when he was 11years old. The second largest random live video chat site called http://www.SpinTheCam.com seems to offer more rich functionality than chatroulette and shuffliepeople. Other sites are really following the footstep of chatroulette. It is a nice site if you want to catch some pretty chaps

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