Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Who is that guy?









When our daughter Carrie became an ISP for our local community the area was thrilled. We were one of the first to bring Internet Services to our community. We also served the North East corner of Illinois, Antioch. That was many years ago during the dial-up days.
Anyway, I ran the office, and I was the help desk. Carrie would go out on calls because in those days the Internet had to be manually installed and information typed in, and set up. Well as you can imagine the people were clueless so we offered free in house calls to set it up for them.
Wow the business took off like wild fire. We had just about every one in the area. The phone never, ever stopped ringing. Call after call.
I learned HTML so I could start to make websites, after all, we had to make our own. At that time there was no one. Anyway we did not have WSIWG applications so therefore HTML was all you had to work with. After I learned proficiency in it I started my own Web Designing company, through Busynet Internet Services. Oh Lord was I ever busy, and with my Photoshop abilities I had a ton of customers.
I designed the above logo for my business which turned out to be a real mistake. I was continually getting phone calls, emails, because women and both young and old wanted to know who the heck was that gorgeous guy who is doing websites. hahahahahahhahahaha! We live in a small town so they thought they knew everyone. Anyway I would say "That is Me"! hahahaha! They would just sheepishly say, "Oh sorry Maureen, I guess it's the suit"! hahahahaha! Go Figure that one out?????? To this day I am like "What the Heck are they smoking anyway"!
Just thought you might find it as funny as I did. Those calls were endless until word got out that it's not a young man, it's Maureen Johnson.... Kind of a Victor/Victoria thing. I just put the suit on to look more professional, not manly....

3 comments:

  1. HAHA! Oh Maureen. That's hilarious!
    I do not think you look like a man! Wow. They were thirsty for some fresh blood. Thought there may be a new man in town and were spotting them where there was clearly none.
    I bet you guys were busy! That would be intense. I remember when we first got the internet. Wow. The internet is the best thing ever. I love it!

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  2. oh Moodle, you simply KICK ASS don't you?? :)

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  3. Nice!! Challenge all assumptions!!!

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