On
the Internet Since 1995
How time flies....
Whe I was a kid...we had a TV that had Pong
built into it in the mid 1970's. Later, we (like everyone
else in America) got an Atari
2600. I then got a Commodore Vic-20
back around 1981. I was able to write a spaghetti-code
program that made a balloon go across the screen--yeah!!
Years later, we were learning with either
Apple or IBM Computers in high school (~1985). I choose
to use the IBM
PC and then later a IBM
XT. I remember my friends twisting floppy disks in an
effort to see how much damage they could take before they
didn't work! They were surprisingly resilient.
Later, I would buy a used IBM
AT (6 MHz!) and no hard drive, for use at home. Around
late 1989 I started using dial up BBS
services. In 1990 I was using Internet Gopher
to gather the weather (before the World
Wide Web existed). In 1991, I had even met a new friend
on Prodigy
(talk about early Internet dating), then by 1995,
I had regular email with a .com name from some company
called "Sound Doctrine"
which is now long gone. By December of 1995, I had my first
Website on Geocities,
and the rest is history. Since then, I have made at least
50 Websites, sent at least 120,000 emails (yes, I have
a calculation), and have used the Internet almost everyday.
