I worked professionally for a wireless broadband Internet startup in the late '90s building company intranets and customer support portals with Perl, CGI, SSI, PHP3 on Solaris 2.x SPARC and RedHat 4.x systems running Apache1.3.0. I began contracting work in 2003 and have been freelancing ever since.

I've been online since the days of BBS, CompuServ, and Telnet on Windows 3.1. I remember using Gopher, and playing multiplayer Doom on DWANGO with a 14.4k modem. I've building websites since '97 when I used my Windows '95a 60Mhz IBM Aptiva to FTP my first web page to www.flash.net/~groff (back when it was ok to have a url with a "~" in it) and then viewing it with Internet Explorer 4.0 with all it's animated .gif and MIDI glory!

I remember the bad-old-days of FrontPage, and WYSIWYG editors such as NetObjets Fusion. I thought I was the coolest programmer on the block when I learned to php-include a single txt file on every page as a menu-bar and footer without having to rewrite the HTML over and over for each page!

I've worked with various CMS platforms, and found Drupal in 2010 after accepting a large non-profit project for which I had no idea how to complete :). The project was a success with D6+CiviCRM, and much help from both the Drupal and CiviCRM communities. I've since continued building dozens of non-profit, NGO, and small businesses websites with Drupal.

Drupal is the "Linux" of web-building software. Linux can be modified to run any device from single-board-computers and mobile phones, to the entire back-end infrastructure the size of AWS and Google! I see that same capability with Drupal for building any type of web service imaginable. Drupal will have the same longevity on the Internet that Linux has enjoyed in the OS world.