Andrej Preston

Andrej Preston (born c. 1986), also known under the pseudonym Slonček (meaning "little elephant" in Slovene), is the founder of the former BitTorrent site Suprnova.org.[1][2]

The Slovenian publication Mladina revealed in November 2004 that he was 18 years old and a student at the Waldorf High School in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[3] After having shut down Suprnova.org in December 2004, he became the target of a police investigation in early 2005, and his two computers were confiscated.[2][4][5] In October 2005, the prosecutor announced that no charges would be filed and the computers were returned.[5]

Andrej Preston had given the domain name suprnova.org to The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay had relaunched it as of August 21, 2007.[2]

On August 25, 2007, he moved to San Francisco, California,[2] where he is visiting Academy of Art University.[needs update]

Three years after donating the suprnova.org domain to The Pirate Bay, Preston retrieved it, in order to make a new website, which should become an online video portal.[6][needs update]

From 2011 onwards, he produces videos for his United States–based YouTube channel The Infographics Show, where he discusses about history and current events.[7][8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ^ Michael Ingram, Interview with Sloncek of SuprNova Archived January 29, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Slyck News, May 11, 2004. Accessed November 7, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d Jani Sever, Slovenian Pirate Archived August 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Vest, August 25, 2007. Accessed November 7, 2008.
  3. ^ Hunting Slovenia's Little Elephant Archived September 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Mladina. Accessed November 7, 2008.
  4. ^ Thomas Mennecke, Suprnova.org Closes, Slyck News, December 19, 2004. Accessed November 7, 2008.
  5. ^ a b Michael Ingram, SuprNova.org: The Story of a Legend Archived December 2, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Slyck News, May 7, 2006. Accessed November 7, 2008.
  6. ^ "SuprNova Relaunches". activepolitic.com. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012.
  7. ^ Hoffman, Beth (July 10, 2012). "'The Infographics Show' Tackles Fast Food". Forbes. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  8. ^ "Youtube Channel With 8 Million Subscribers Portrays Lebanon As An Arab Gulf Country". The 961. April 4, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  9. ^ "The Infographics Show recommends to use a password manager and gives a discount code for it!". Medium. May 27, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  10. ^ "Here's How to Survive Being Accidentally Swallowed by a Whale". Interesting Engineering. November 24, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  11. ^ "6 YouTube channels you should try out". HiFi Public. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  • Sloncek.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 31, 2009) – Andrej Preston's blog describing his experience after he moved to the United States
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