EARLY WEBSITES
As I was working on simplifying the church's website I remembered the first site we had in 1995. Kyle de Bruyn, a high school student at the time, now an engineer in SoCal, put together a simple page using html. Most churches were not thinking of websites back then. When Kyle went away to UCLA I ended up moving the site to geocities.com where I could manage it without a lot of technical expertise.

Geocities was a slice of life back then. I can't remember the church's address but I remember the address I set up for myself www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1482 (It still works!). This was before they were bought out by yahoo. Everything was set-up graphically as neighborhoods. Everyone had neighbors to whom you were encouraged to link. They had the idea that the Web was going to electronically mimic the geographical community. They were right about the community aspect of it. But at that point no one realized how the e-world would take on a complexity all its own. And it is still evolving.