Joe.to
Title
www.joe.to
Description
History
Joe was on the internet in 1994, when he first saw NCSA mosaic while working at PG&E tech support. At the time there were less than a hundred websites in the whole world, and hardly anyone used internet email. He had many lunch conversations wondering what amazing things were about to happen - maybe everyone would have their own website? seems silly now but back then, it was an incredible, impossible thought. He had a chance to work at yahoo when it was still small (employee #40 or so) but didn't see how they would ever make any money. Back then yahoo only listed a few categories on one page, and lycos was the only search engine.
He found cyborganic and spacebar, one of the first internet communities, and made a home there. he considered getting a url but didn't have a use for it until 1996 when he registered www.joe.to at the brand new tonga registry. by 1998 he had given out dozens of user accounts on joe.to and had a thriving community including websites and a telnet chat system based on telechat, similar to spacebar. However, between occasional disconnections, users trying to hack his boxen and other problems, joe.to came down in 1999.
The modern era
In 2000 joe.to was reborn to support joe's growing interest in counter-strike. He started a server that rapidly grew in popularity before most of the common plugins existed. some of his contributions to counter-strike include:
