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The site is powered by a SQL database, with
updates occurring on a periodic basis.
In the summer of 2000, a soon-to-be senior
citizen, who was an off-spring of a former traveling salesman, got the idea
about providing jocular tidbits for his friends. These friends were located in
several different parts of the country and did not reside near to the author of
the site.
In fact, the site's author had moved around the country many times over forty
years, re-locating at least 13 times. And this included to one foreign country.
The son of the site's author was a 2000 graduate
of Xavier University and had began his career in the Internet world by starting
a web-hosting business. Since the site's author had been in the IT industry for
over thirty years, it was only natural to utilize the internet for what it was
originally intended; a gathering of information and dissemination to the world.
In September, 2000, the site went live for the first time. Over the next three
years, it evolved into a multi-function storage and messaging medium. During
2003, it was decided that the multitude of material would be better presented if
it was data-driven. Thus, a multi-month project was begun to place the html
pages into a format that could be accessed and displayed both randomly and by
user selection.
Now, since the technology has evolved, in 2010 the site was completely reworked
under ASPX technology, using Microsoft's Visula Web Developer 2010 Express.
This is what you are seeing today....
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