Welcome To Springwolf’s Kosmos

The year was 1997. I was working as an Internet Engineer at a fortune 50 company. Newt Gingrich was narrowly re-elected as speaker of the US House of Representatives. The 23rd People’s Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Sandra Bullock win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win for their TV shows. The Space Shuttle STS 81 (Atlantis 18), launches into space and returns home safely weeks later. In Super Bowl XXXI the Green Bay Packers beat NE Patriots, 35-21 in New Orleans. At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history. And that was just the first two months of the year.  But it was also the year that I created my very first website on the world-wide web, as everyone was calling it back then.

In the late 1980s commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) began to emerge. By 1989 I was working on one of the first iterations of the corporate presence on the internet. Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has had a revolutionary impact on culture and commerce. It really wasn’t all that long ago. And back in those days, it was expensive. The average person could barely afford the ISP connections for hours on end, much less paying hosting fees to create a private website.

That began to change in the late 1990s. I was already doing webdesign for the company I worked for, I thought it was about time I did something for me. The first version of my website was on AOL. Remember those member.aol.com websites? They seem so cheesy now. The first version of my personal website contained information about HTML, creating and designing your own website, what tools you might use to do it and somethings to think about when creating your domain name.

By 2000, my little AOL website had outgrown its residence and it was time to move up and acquire Springwolf.com. On November 3rd, 2000 it became all mine. And has been ever since.

The Original Springwolf.com

After 14 years, it was time to change the paint and hang up some new curtains. Lay down a new carpet and maybe a hardwood floor or two to make it easier to get around.

And that brings us to today. March 26th ..and 27th 2014. It took most of yesterday afternoon and into the night to get WordPress installed, up running and configured. There’s still a little tweaking to do, but it’s 2:30am and I’m getting tired. So I thought I’d share an About page that explains the inspiration and creation of Springwolf.com and it’s evolution from Springwolf’s Kosmos to Springwolf’s Creations. And of course, what’s the fun in having a new blog, if you don’t celebrate with a first post before the sun comes up?

So here we go folks. I hope my visitors have a good time stopping by and checking things out from time to time. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes!

© 1997-2014 Springwolf, D.D., Ph.D., Springwolf’s Creations. All Rights Reserved.