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 Technology doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t spring fully formed from the mind of a single genius. It grows through collaboration, competition, trial, error, and the stubborn persistence of people whose names never make it into the spotlight.
-GeekHistory is my attempt to correct the record.
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 I’ve spent my life working with radios, telecommunications, computers, networks, and the messy evolution of the internet. From Army National Guard radio systems in the 1970s, to my first FCC radiotelephone license, to decades in field service, systems administration, and telecom—I've watched technology evolve in real time. I published my first article on PC telecommunications in 1988, taught internet basics in the mid 1990s, and registered GeekHistory.com in 2001 as a place to share the stories behind the technology.

Sorry if some of the pages having missing graphics or a bookmarked page is missing. We are migrating our site over to DokuWiki from Drupal. The last major overhaul of our site was in 2016, and we were due for some freshening up.

The collection of material for the study of geek history dates back to my early days in technology as far back as the 1970s. You will find specific footnotes and references on many pages with links to current websites. Anytime a claim is made, or a fact is stated from a website or blog that does not appear to have firsthand knowledge of the subject I make a note to follow up on it. I can assure you that anything I have written is based on verification of facts from a source as close to the events and individuals as possible or multiple sources of information from leading publications or references.

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