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Salsaboston.com all started innocently enough as a text file I compiled about where to go Salsa dancing. I had just picked up Latin dancing as a new hobby sometime in 1997 or so, I forget exactly. Soon I found myself emailing my info friends who were interested--or moreover that I wanted to get interested since I was hooked! Finally it got so crazy trying to email this stuff all the time, especially when people started asking me for it, so I decided to try out web programming one day. This was the early days of the web, keep in mind. So it al turned it into a web page to simplify life. Hah...! Soon it was linked to from all over the place and listing info and inquiries come in pretty much daily. That was cool! Keep it coming, but please keep in mind that this page is a public service, both to disperse information to the local dancers and a place for the promoters to advertise what's up. I don't get paid for maintaining it. However, if you go to a club, concert, class, etc. that you learned about through my page, please let the the club or instructor, etc. know that you saw it here.

In May, 1999, I finally acquired the domain "salsaboston.com" to move the site away from my MIT internet access, given the traffic the site started getting. While I hadn't really explored salsaweb.com, the greatest international Salsa dancing web site on the net (founded by--now friend--Edie Lewis ("The SalsaFreak") and a whole bunch of other neat people) it turned out coincidentally that my site had developed into something very similar but on a local/regional level. Since it was a good match, Edie appointed me part of the family by making me the Boston correspondent to the cityguides section. Check it out if you're traveling!

I started logging hits in May, 1998, and my old page at MIT reached a steady 1000 visits per month (whoa!, but were you surfing in 1999?). When salsaboston.com was launched, that jumped quickly to 1500-2000 visitors per month, and I started using web develpment software instead of hand coding.... By the summer of 2000, the site was getting 5000 visitors per month and 15,000 page views. Yeaowh! (The site is now hosted by a great people at http://itxdesign.com. If you're looking for web hosting, drop Paul a note and tell him I sent you.)