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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2293538, member: 19463&quot;]Some will take this the wrong way but I believe it is the truth.&nbsp; Fact: Neither Warren nor I invented the Internet.&nbsp; What we did, along with a very few others, was post free discussion on collecting ancient coins online.&nbsp; Mine went up in February 1997 as a reaction to not being able to find much on coins on the Internet.&nbsp; Some subjects at the time would ask you subscribe (read: pay) to get access to information.&nbsp; We wanted to share the joy we got from our hobby and used the relatively new medium for the purpose.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>At the time there were not even that many dealers with online presence and it was possible to look at every coin offered on eBay because the number was reasonable.&nbsp; There are other hobbies with information online but I am proud that my hobby was ahead of its time in this regard.&nbsp; For several years I added a page to my site every Friday at 0000 Zulu time (making some people accuse me of being British).&nbsp; I stopped when I retired from working and buying a lot of coins.&nbsp; Buying coins to provide subjects for the weekly pages was getting expensive.&nbsp; Toward the end, I switched to fewer, larger pages with more content updated less often.&nbsp; Those are the pages I still value.&nbsp; Lately, I am lucky to add a couple pages a year.&nbsp; That may be because the time I used to spend on the project is now used here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>About this same time someone else invented what we now call the blog.&nbsp; I did not know about them until after my &#039;retirement&#039;.&nbsp; Looking back, the concept of the weekly updated webpage was a lot like what they were calling the blog.&nbsp;&nbsp; I wish I had invented the name.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Today, nothing makes me happier than to hear from someone that my pages encouraged them to take up the hobby back in the late 1990&#039;s.&nbsp; Of the other pages I knew from those days, Warren&#039;s is still with us.&nbsp; I remain proud to have known him all these years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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