TXTMob was first developed by the Institute for Applied Autonomy for protesters at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston and the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City ( see 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity ) . Tad Hirsch , a researcher in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Smart Cities Group and Computing Culture Research Group , continues to offer TXTmob cleaned up , packaged and released under the GPL via SourceForge
2004 Republican National Convention
2004 Republican National Convention
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