DaniWeb IT Discussion Community is an online IT message board. The website initially gained attention amongst the vBulletin c{{ommunity for its unique method of building an entire site, including proprietary content management system, exclusively on top of the vBulletin forum framework. However, in the first quarter of 2012, DaniWeb converted from vBulletin to a framework which had developed in-house. DaniWeb was founded in 2002 by Dani Horowitz, who, at that time, was pursuing a computer science degree on Long Island, New York, and began gaining widespread attention throughout the search engine optimization industry in 2005. More recently, DaniWeb began publishing and featuring IT news which has subsequently received mainstream attention in the media. In January 2007, DaniWeb staff writer Davey Winder published a story that TomTom GPS devices were being released from the factory virus infected. Within days, TomTom released a press release acknowledging DaniWeb's story. In November 2007, DaniWeb acquired ProgrammingForums.org, a free online community targeted at professional and hobbyist Programmers.
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