I've been trying to get my redneck friends to understand this for a while.
Yep, I would point them to a history of the weather underground. I do find it amusing that when you google weather underground now all the top searches are for a weather app with an interesting history. Almost like it was created to get people from seeing the true WUO history through google search.
Bill Ayers/Obama connection anyone?
The company is based in San Francisco, California and was founded in 1995 as an offshoot of the University of Michigan internet weather database. The name is a reference to the 1960s radical left-wing militant organization the Weather Underground, which also originated at the University of Michigan.[2][3] The name, formerly UM-Weather, was changed to Weather Underground in 1991 due to feedback from the National Science Foundation[4] in response to Perry Samson's proposal for funding.[3] Weather Underground has since adopted the nickname Wunderground in addition to Weather Underground.
Jeff Masters, a doctoral candidate in meteorology at the University of Michigan working under the direction of Professor Perry Samson, wrote a menu-based Telnet interface in 1991 that displayed real-time weather information around the world. In 1993, they recruited Alan Steremberg and initiated a project to bring Internet weather into K–12 classrooms. Weather Underground president Alan Steremberg wrote "Blue Skies" for the project, a graphical Mac Gopher client, which won several awards. When the Mosaic Web browser appeared, this provided a natural transition from "Blue Skies" to the Web.