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Not a sausage (software)

In the early days of the internet, when the humble internet cafes were king and 56K was seen as 'lightning fast', there was a company born out of a bedroom: Sausage Software. A coding genius (whose name escapes me) locked himself in a bedroom for a few days and after realizing the internet had much more to offer than porn and mp3s, built his own software and then fame and fortune in that order. From an article I read at the time, he was probably going to be the next Bill Gates and was busy rubbing shoulders with the whose who of Australian business. I saw posters and billboards and plenty of ads for it. What happened? But what happened next? And why doesn't anyone remember him or the company he made?