No one had heard of Internet yet in Dayton, Ohio,
when I was born, nor near West
Carrollton, Ohio, where I grew up and graduated. I'm not sure we even HAD computers at Otterbein
College in Westerville, Ohio, in the early '60s when I was there, learning my way
to a BA degree in order to teach.
There were no Macs and no PCs in the
junior highs where I taught, nor in the Black Hills and Pine Ridge area of South Dakota while I was a case worker for Child Welfare in Rapid City.
When I married, we raised our daughter with postal, not e-mail.
Moving to Kansas in the
early '70s opened new horizons for me. My husband and I discovered some
Kansas history
for ourselves on the nearby remnants of the Santa Fe Trail. We
got our first PC partially so I could record and
reorganize family history information after
finding the grave of a distant cousin buried in the 1860s near the Trail.
In 1989, our first grandson was born and Tim Berners-Lee conceived the
World Wide Web. (Update on Tim Berners Lee from Time) By the time our grandson was 5, he had exchanged some letters ("zxcv") with someone in Croatia via on-line chat
and the Web's
childhood is reflected upon by its "father" in Peter Flynn's World Wide Web Handbook
(6/1995). By then Lynn Nelson's Kansas Heritage site on Kansas history and genealogy had gathered volunteers and attracted readers.
So with its history of trails, and some of its residents making groundbreaking contributions to the Web (such as Lynn Nelson, historian, or Charles Rezac, co-creator of the pre-Mosaic browser called LYNX at KU), Kansas continues to be a great place to join the Internet highway, in my opinion.
Growing up at Holes Creek and Springboro Road in the 1940s and '50s, I remember several floods. At least once the flood waters churned to the top of our basement windows. Our house never flooded inside, though. (Hole's Creek history and maps)
Our house had two flat roofs. Sometimes we had sleep-outs up there.
In the 1970s, the house sold and became headquarters for ICON. They enclosed the flat roof areas for more space.
Here's how it looked from an aerial
view in 1991, with a topo map.
In the late 1990s, it was torn down for a flood control project.
In 1989, our first grandson was born and Tim Berners-Lee conceived the
World Wide Web. (Update on Tim Berners Lee from Time) By the time our grandson was 5, he had exchanged some letters ("zxcv") with someone in Croatia via on-line chat
and the Web's
childhood is reflected upon by its "father" in Peter Flynn's World Wide Web Handbook
(6/1995). By then Lynn Nelson's Kansas Heritage site on Kansas history and genealogy had gathered volunteers and attracted readers.
So with its history of trails, and some of its residents making groundbreaking contributions to the Web (such as Lynn Nelson, historian, or Charles Rezac, co-creator of the pre-Mosaic browser called LYNX at KU), Kansas continues to be a great place to join the Internet highway, in my opinion.
Genealogy:
Ed married Frances 
