Memory Lane Part I
Someone asked me last week how long Jack and I have had our site. This spawned a conversation about my web pages and how long I’ve been on “the web”. I recalled the very first web page I ever created.
Back then Jack and a partner owned Abacus Computer Systems. Jack wanted to be able to offer his customers web page design and he wanted me to do it. So I sat down and taught myself HTML. This is the very first page I created. It was originally hosted at my very first internet service provider, www.orionsys.com (who closed down this past October). I don’t remember the exact date the page was created but I’m guessing around March of 1997. I remember adding the counter a couple months after I created the page and the counter says “Since May 27, 1997″. This is the final draft since it’s obvious I added to it here and there over a couple years. (I haven’t added to it since 1999.) But my best guess is that web page is seven years old.
Jack and I have had “www.jackntracie.com” for just over two years. But our presense on the web dates back almost ten years ago. Before we were actually on the world wide web, you could find us in a game called “Telearena” that we played on a local BBS (online bulletin board service) called Foundation Earth. That’s actually where we met. We would also dial in with our old modems to Orion and Game Land Plus (which later became Nexus Entertainment Systems). Back then local people ran a bunch of “BBS’s” and that was our form on online entertainment. But you had to dial in and have separate accounts at each BBS. Jack and I mostly stuck to Foundation Earth and Orion. Those were the days…. 
Quick note about my “first page”: Amazingly enough, many of the links still work after all these years! Not bad for my first page, huh?
I love the 100 things about Jack and Tracie. It was fun to read and I even learned 1 or 2 things I didn’t know about each of you. I love you 9 bunches.
Come see me. :blush:
Wow, small world! I’m amazed how few BBS’ers from the old days I’ve found on the web. I randomly was looking for inception dates of GameLand Plus and found your post. Wasn’t those days fun? GT’s at Uncle Milts and Smokeys…
The internet has never had the same feel.
I was a kid when I started on BBS’s, but I remember the downfall vividly. After FE died, then DRG, and the internet just took over. It’s a whole different world, and I’m glad I was able to experience the culture and fun around it when it was alive.
Thanks for bringing me back.
-meshuga
Hey I used to play on Orion BBS too! (if you’re talking about the one in Virginia Beach). I was Eriond on there, man what a blast from the past!