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What followed were many sleepless nights scouring the web for any webring I could find that had to do with my favorite band (at the time): Metallica. While building the website for my Dad's company, I was also putting together a huge Metallica fansite, consisting of photos, band facts, midi versions of their songs, and whatever crap I could find across the web. Back in those days, there was absolutely no worry about copyright violations - it was the wild west. In fact, I attribute my ability to code HTML from scratch by right-clicking to "View Source" on almost every page I visited. A little copy/paste, and my site suddenly had the latest and greatest web trend.
After that site, I starting building my Tool fansite, Learn To Swim, and posting photos of my friends at concerts, parties, and just hanging out. Everybody got a kick out of "being on the Internet" - at that time, Geocities was king, and you had to know how to work a simple FTP client like WsFTP. The amount of time I put into building websites was sickening. My college roommate called me "obsessed," which I guess was an accurate description, but if you're a web geek then this description of the early Internet probably seems very familiar.
Skip a few years through college, where I finished up my Accounting BS, and learned to play guitar from (you guessed it) - the Internet (OLGA was my best friend). I was offered a job with Nextera Enterprises before I graduated, and in June, 2000 started consulting as a User Interface Designer with their creative group. I guess all those late nights paid off.
Fast-forward to today, where I run Drive Thru Interactive, Inc., a full service website solutions provider.
(I'll update this with more filler and witty banter sometime soon.)
