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[Joe Johnson]

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

Who ran it before Brandon and co?

Oddly enough, we had an engineer at Delphi who had his own website (a very strange idea back in 1996 - I think it was a site devoted to discovering cheat codes for PC games). Anyway, he kept talking about these script languages with unfamiliar names like Perl, CGI, tcl, etc. that he found that let him run a kind of home brew discussion forum on his site.

I begged him to help us get a discussion forum running on PCHS-Delphi.com. The rest is history.

As to who ran it, Brian (the Delphi Engineer), started things off. I personally hacked some of the scripts (though not many). When Brian opted to accept a buy out (Who could turn down lump sum payment of 12 months salary to go find another job?), we hunted around a bit and eventually heard that our lead teacher, Mike Martus, had a son who maybe could learn this Perl/CGI stuff.

I will tell you flat out, I have never seen a person learn so much so fast. Brandon is just amazing. And not just because he is a quick learner. He works REALLY HARD too, but even beyond that, he has vision.

When the Chief Delphi Team Leaders asked if we could have this or that feature, he always found a way. Even better, he suggested his own cool advanced features and dug into "real" software packages (like Vbulletin and others) that make this site hum.

Joe J.