Before "hackathon" was a category with rules and sponsors and a T-shirt supply chain, this was one of the first times anyone had tried it at real scale — opening up BBC and Yahoo APIs to hundreds of developers in one room for a single day, with no brief beyond "build something interesting."
BBC/Yahoo Hack Day
The original large-scale Hack Day, bringing hundreds of developers and designers to Alexandra Palace for a weekend of experiments built from BBC and Yahoo data, tools and services.
