My programming career started in the mid-nineties as a web developer for a local

school district. Web as in http, that is. Netscape Navigator was helping to grow the

number of households with internet modems, because it was more advanced than anything

else at the time. Netscape Navigator 3.0 (1996), and 3.04 (1997), helped households

and businesses all over the world open up the internet for common uses. And

there is no more common task than shopping! With the advent of e-commerce, the

internet exploded with a capitalist gold rush.