getDigital was founded in 2002 by Philipp Stern and Florian Schatz with a starting capital of a grandiose 1000 euros. They started programming at the age of 11 or 12 (back then in BASIC and with the C64) and then founded their own company at 18, working as code monkeys to create various homepages and store pages for customers. In June 2002, they realized that there was no store in the whole of Europe that specifically appealed to computer freaks. Naturally, they had to change this and getDigital has been around ever since.