In 1997, we decided to start a web design company. Well, we signed up with a company called Simplenet who a bunch of our friends were using, and put up our very first website: our own. We paid them $24 per month at first, which escalated to $39 by the time we left. At the time, Simplenet offered unlimited web space, but not much more. No email, no cgi, no stats. Nothing. But we had a lot of space. Oh, we had to use their domain, acreativetouch.simplenet.com. In those days, we were just starting out and didn't have the $70 Network Solutions wanted to charge to register actwd.com plus the extra $100 Simplenet wanted to charge us just to set it up. But, with a few clicks of a mouse, we were open for business. On a side note, that site was shut down in January 2001. Why? Well, frankly because the new proprietor wanted us to pay them more money and get our own domain. I'm still a little sore about that because we had some good search engine rankings on that site and that's why we kept it all these years later...but that's getting a little ahead of my story.
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