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Our Cyberplace – Another Twilight Moment

Once again, around 6:00 a.m., another twilight moment occurred before I was fully awake. It centered on our community and how knowledgeable its citizens are about all the "good deed" activities, events, and projects that take place throughout the year that enhance and improve the quality of life in "Our [...]

By | July 31st, 2014|0 Comments

Our River Town Continues to Celebrate Its Place in Cyberspace

Can you believe it? Today, March 11, 2014 is the 8th anniversary of Our River Town blog on what is now known as the Argus-Courier's Petaluma360. To date, this volunteer blogger has posted 540 blogs, organized in 14 various categories. ((Look for these categories in the column to the right.) [...]

By | March 11th, 2014|0 Comments

The WWW Celebrates it’s 20th Anniversary

Petaluma's first community-wide web site was called PEN (Petaluma Electronic Network), and designed 17 years ago by a high school student, Eric Silverberg (August 28, 1996.) This new information and communication application was made possible with the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, about [...]

By | May 16th, 2013|0 Comments

Volunteers Create PetalumaNet: 1995

A small group of concerned citizens initiated PetalumaNet in 1995 in order to promote greater use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Petaluma area schools. As time went on, it became apparent that all sectors of the community - education, business, government, health, and non-profit organizations - needed [...]

By | February 28th, 2013|0 Comments

The “Spirit” of PetalumaNet is Still Alive

How many readers remember that two of the very first categories of this Petaluma360 blog site in March 2006 were titled, Our Cyberplace and Our Information Highway. They reported what was happening with the pilot projects sponsored by PetalumaNet, founded in 1995. Over the ten year period, 1995-2005, PN expanded [...]

By | October 15th, 2011|0 Comments

The Smithsonian Returns

It's 3 a.m., and The Trio begins to wake up with a few historical thoughts on their minds that they believe most Petalumans aren't aware of, or never knew in the first place. They relate to the return of the Smithsonian Institution in the form of the "Beyond: Visions of [...]

By | May 7th, 2011|0 Comments

What now … e-Newspapers!

It's amazing how we tend to reflect on the past during the beginning of a new year. In my case, when we moved to Petaluma in the mid-90s, the " Computer Information Age" was just starting to take off with the rapid expansion of the Internet. WWW was recognized as [...]

By | January 7th, 2011|1 Comment

One box at a time

Unlike the the response made by “Dagwood Bumstead” and quoted in the comment section of Bill's Blog #81 - “All the Things We Collect” (bottom of the blog for 6-10-10), The Trio made a decision not to watch the History Channel as Dagwood did, until the “Clean Up the Garage” [...]

By | June 12th, 2010|0 Comments

Happy Birthday Pony Express

On April 3, 1860 at 7:15 p.m. (that's 150 years ago), the first Pony Express rider left St. Joseph, Missouri. It would take 10 days to delivery a letter to San Francisco. Mail service was provided two days/week: Wednesdays and Saturdays. New York to St. Joseph was the first leg [...]

By | April 3rd, 2010|1 Comment

Another Anniversary to Celebrate

Last month, I posted my 40th “Then & Now” blog using next year’s Centennial Celebration of Fred J. Wiseman’a first airmail flight on February 17-18, 1911, as the subject matter. When I woke up this morning, it dawned on me that tomorrow, March 11, will be the fourth anniversary of [...]

By | March 10th, 2010|0 Comments