Geeknet was a company focused on selling products appealing to the "geek" community, including items related to movies, TV shows, and video games. In July 2015, it was acquired by GameStop.
The company was called VA Research from 1993 to 1999, VA Linux Systems from 1999 to 2001, VA Software from 2001 to 2007, and SourceForge from 2007 to 2009.[1]
History
VA Research
VA Research was founded in November 1993[1] by Stanford University graduate student Larry Augustin and James Vera. Augustin was a Stanford colleague of Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!.[2]