The DNA Lounge is a popular late-night San Francisco nightclub, founded in the 1980s, which caters particularly to the digerati scene. It was purchased in 2000 by celebrated hacker Jamie Zawinski, who spearheaded a successful grassroots effort to maintain its many late-night permits. At the time, his plan was to make it a "total nerd space".

When not functioning as a nightclub, the DNA Lounge regularly hosts hacker conventions such as CodeCon.

External links

• DNA Lounge (http://www.dnalounge.com/)
• CodeCon (http://codecon.deor.org/)
• Salon article from 2000 (http://dir.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/02/10/zawinski/index.html)