Fifteen years ago on December 2, 1995 I turned an old Macintosh computer in my office into a web server. I stumbled my way through a bunch of HTML code and watched as about 200 page-views were served up that first month. My guess is that was about two people that kept coming back to look at the same ten lame pages about ten times that month. Fifteen years is not a very long time, but in Internet years it is like a look back to a Jurassic fossil. Now I realize we haven't solved world peace here so rolling out the self-admiration club band is only reserved for special days. I think every fifteen years or so you can fire up the way-back machine and dig up a stone or two.
Much of the inspiration for the site came from the authors Landis, Meck and Sanja. My friends Ron, Greg and I would travel around the state fly-fishing with their books by our sides as we explored new waters. At the time I was working for Apple Computer with their latest HTTP web servers. Being a tech geek it became pretty evident to me the future was going to have a new road with the world wide web. Being a Geography Major during college I immediately applied my cartography skills and made up 67 county maps of the state. I published each county with all the major fly fishing and trout streams. So then I had like 77 web pages.
