history

Why BoxKite?

Everyone likes flying kites, right? The original inventor of the box kite was Lawrence Hargrave. In 1893. And he was an Australian. Sadly missing from our newer plastic yet colourful currency, Lawrence was one of those guys who helped manned flight become a reality.

And keeping with the Twitter bird theme, flying and airborne I created a fork of the MahTweets twitter client in late 2011 and named it MahTweets Lawrence Hargrave.

In mid 2012, Brendan needed a code name for a new Twitter "thing" he was working on. Keeping in this flighty theme, I named his app "BoxKite". For posterity's sake, I have absconded with Brendan's code, and my contributed codename (and a nifty icon) and have dubbed this project BoxKite.