Enter My Saviour…
Earning a buck on the Internet wasn’t easy… and it still isn’t. Not really! The early days of web design were a bit like when desktop publishing was introduced! Supposedly “anyone” could do it! Heck there were even software packages available through my son’s primary school for 8 year olds to do their own web [...]
That “Aha” Moment!
One of the things that leads to the success of many companies on the Internet has been their choice of name. Think “Yahoo” and the success it obtained as a search engine at the time. Now of course, “Google” is the brand universally recognisable as meaning “search”.
My “aha” moment was when I realised back in [...]
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Personal circumstances around late 1997 through to 1999 mean that my memories are a tad on the cloudy side as far as specifics are concerned. I do know that I met a couple of people who were to have a significant impact on my future in the industry… one of whom I’ve done a lot [...]
Bring Out The “Snake Oil”
It’s very interesting that, with any new form of technology, you get all sorts of people trying to flog it… and they make all sorts of very weird claims in the process!
And in 1996/1997 there were ALL sorts of snake oil peddlers making very inaccurate and outlandish claims about the “power” of the Internet!
The same [...]
New Fangled Technology - The World Wide Web
Remember… It WAS 1996, and the Internet was new fangled technology then! Back then my first 14.4k modem cost $400… fax machines were the size of photocopiers… and mobile phones were as big as bricks!
I lived in the western suburbs of Sydney Australia at the time… so after a fair bit of head scratching about [...]
Back In The Good Ole Days…
My first web site, Australia’s Careers Online, was launched in July of 1995, while I was in my final stint of a 16 year long career as a High School Careers Adviser.
This web site was based on my (self) published “Ideas for Careers” teaching masters which had been sold to Aussie schools for the previous [...]