Before this was a dog blog, I ran an internet service provider in Menasha in the 1990s. I still write about the web now and then. The early-internet stories are the part people seem to like most.
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The Beginning of a New Era: HTC Hero Review and a Look Back at Running an ISPNov 2009Menasha’s PowerNet: The Old-Fashioned Corner Store of the Early Internet (1998)Mar 2011Happy New Year! & Thanks Google! (Google Gives Out an Unexpected PageRank Update)Dec 2009A Look Inside Google’s Data CenterMar 2011How Google Runs a Full Water Treatment Plant Just to Cool Its Data CentersMar 2011Top Must-Have Online Services for Your Business (Updated for 2026)Jan 2010I Built QUINT, a Free Daily Word Game With Twists the Big Ones Don’t HaveSep 2026Geek Mode: I Gave Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-5.6 Sol the Same Real-World JobsSep 2026