I have been building things on the internet since I was a teenager. A little publishing company, then a dial-up internet provider I started at seventeen, then a print shop on a stone corner in Menasha. Most of it faded the way small web ventures do. So I went into the Internet Archive and rebuilt them, piece by piece. This is where they live now.
Step inside: the interactive one
Run a 1998 ISP from the command line_
The most hands-on piece of the whole collection. Step into PowerNet’s back room and actually operate the gear: log into the hosting box, configure the edge router, and see how a 1990s internet provider was really wired together. No sign-up and nothing to install. It runs right in your browser.
Rebuilt from the archives
PowerNet Online
The hometown internet I started at seventeen, brought back from the old pages.
Ashwood, Inc.
My old printing and design shop on the corner in Menasha, rebuilt from the 2003 site and a box of photographs.
Squirrel Publishing
My very first business, years before PowerNet. Where the whole habit of building things started.