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[Peter Damian]

I'm struggling to find any information on this one. Did Jimmy set it up in 1996, 1998, or 2000? Where did he get the money to set it up? Why were the servers in a shack in Tampa, Florida, when the main office was in San Diego? When did Jimmy move to San Diego?

Wikipedia, as always when it comes to such matters, is reticent.

[Peter Damian]

Can someone translate the above posts (ODP - what that?) into ordinary language?

One of my intentions in the book will be to bring some of these techie ideas in plain language to a general audience.

What exactly is a 'web ring' for? What does it look like? How would I use it? (Sorry to be so curmudgeonly - I'm from the generation that used rotary dial phones, indeed I am looking at a nice ebonite one on my desk as I type this).

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[SB_Johnny]

What exactly is a 'web ring' for? What does it look like? How would I use it? (Sorry to be so curmudgeonly - I'm from the generation that used rotary dial phones, indeed I am looking at a nice ebonite one on my desk as I type this).

Wow, that's a term I haven't heard in a long while. "Web rings" were sort of a bottom-up way of getting your website "out there" in the early days of the web. The deal was that you signed up to a ring, and then had a little icon on your home page (not the browser "homepage", but your own "home page", like the "main page" on a wiki). The icon would say something like "see related websites", and then you'd follow it to another page (again, on your own website) to see a list of other small websites in your category (mine were philosophy and gardening).

This was a long time ago (late '90s) when you had to know HTML if you wanted your own website. While I can't say for sure it was pre-Gooooooogle, I certainly hadn't heard of google at the time. The only way to search back then was pretty much to go on yahoo (and archie or grep if you were feeling geeky).

Thanks for the wayback mental trip.