This DER staff member has been using the Internet since 1969 -
although it wasn't called the Internet then. And here is more
than you probably wanted to know:
1965-1969 MIT Upward Bound Program to provide educational programs to local disadvantaged teenage boys, later MIT/Wellesley Upward Bound to include girls
1968-1971 Project MAC, Multics programmer, documentation editor/writer, documentation management software developer, documentation staff trainer, ARPANET user
1969-1974 MIT Lowell Institute School, instructor for various programming courses
1969-1974 MIT Athletic Department, instructor for Maggie Lettvin's Self-Designed Fitness Program--a one hour course for general fitness taught at various locations around MIT
1971-1972 Children's Museum, designer, builder, staff for the Museum's first interactive computer exhibit
1974 Co-author (one of 10) with Maggie Lettvin, and her "Maggie's Back Book", invented time/pain chart concept for determining behavioral/work/habit components of back pain
1974-1976 Intermetrics Inc, HAL language instructor--traveled to various NASA sites & taught courses to engineers, scientists, and programmers who would be writing software in this high level language for the Space Shuttle's on-board guidance and control computer system, maintained documentation for the language
1976-1977 "The Computer Program", a one-hour per week radio program on WBUR, Boston, about the emerging computer culture
1976 Author, editor, publisher of the first edition of "Alternative America", a directory of 5,000+ progressive groups and organizations in the United States (new edition published yearly
1977 Co-founder of the Boston Computer Society--probably the largest and most successful largely-volunteer user group of its kind in the world
1978-1980 Lived on artists commune in Austria, participated in art courses, developed spreadsheet like software for design of energy saving buildings and structures
1981-1990 Computer systems consultant for Consens, European financial services and products (insurance, real estate, investments) company
1981-present Design, compilation, management of special purpose mailing lists and databases, maintenance of standard mailing lists for businesses, publications, non-profits
1982-1983 MIT Lowell Institute School instructor for various programming, application software courses
1983-1984 "The Writing Program", an experimental writing program on Milton Cable TV--improvisational writing that appeared on the screens of viewers tuned to the stations local access channel
1985-1993 Manager of 600k-750k Computer List Coop mailing list
of IBM PC (and compatibles) software buyers
1989-present Internet user, writer for electronic journals,
inventor of various electronic literature, databases, e-concepts
1991-present Designed, wrote software for IBM PC's and
compatibles, for fast, simple retrieval of information from
specialized databases
1993-present Mailing list developer/manager, direct mail
consultant, Internet consultant, World Wide Web page designer for
Documentary Educational Resources, an anthropology/ethnography
film/video distributor
1994-present World Wide Web home page & database designer, try:
http://artdeadlineslist.com
http://der.org
Age 6-present Sculpture/objects, writing, drawing, painting, photography, video, film, mixing mediums of all sorts with each other, numerous conceptual projects/concepts on Internet, and in real life.