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It all began in 1995, on a beautiful sunny day, in my home-town of Venice, CA. I was roller-skating on the boardwalk, weaving through the pedestrians…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…when I happened across a sock lying in the sand. No buddy-sock nearby. No one to care for it. No one to keep it with its counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I said “Well that’s sad. If only there was a way to partner it back up with its other half. Something akin to the missing-children, milk-carton campaign.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then I thought, a website would be perfect for that. But in those glory days of the WEB, not everyone had access to the internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data flowed through dial-up modems over copper phone wires; 14.4k modems were widespread.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A select few had internet via DSL Digital Subscriber Lines.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Remote banking was done via direct-dial-modem to the Citibank server, in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"History<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was fast! It had a text-only, tree-structure, dumb-terminal interface garnering a black background with white text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The functionally was limited. You could only pay one bill at a time. It was great! I loved it! Not too many of us were using it; we were a daring bunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the GUI Graphical User Interface came along. It was all bad. Things were slow, painfully slow. It was nicknamed the “World Wide Wait.” <\/p>\n\n\n

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It was so slow that I kept a collection books handy so I could read while I waited.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It was either that or do the equivalent of watching paint dry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Needless to say, at the time the idea was conceptualized, technology wasn’t capable of such an undertaking. It was an idea whose time had not yet come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While sheltering in place for COVID19, I have been taking stock of my collection of buddy-less socks. As I was sorting and searching through my array of lonely socks it dawned on me that now, now would be a good time to fulfill the vision of LostSock.net. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today I am asking for your support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I’m asking you, for the good of all sock-kind, please go to the (crowdfunding) or Sponsor<\/a> page and join me in this movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no contribution too small, and there should be no sock left behind!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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