march 15, 1968 :	meteors streaked across the sky, great waves roiled in the ocean, and uncounted multitudes of serpents issued forth from the earth. meanwhile, in nuremberg, germany, patrick deese was born.
1970 :	a spider named charlotte created the first "website" by writing words in spider's silk, allowing a little pig beat out his competitors at the county fair.
1981 :	the founder of electron design, patrick deese, gets his first computer, an apple IIe. it smoked along with a dual floppy drive and 16k ram. it cost more than one of the professional set ups we use in the offices today.
1986 :	patrick graduates from tabor academy and begins college at the university of texas in austin, texas.
1988 :	patrick first becomes active on the internet (the real one) at UT.
1991 :	tim berners-lee's program "world wide web" was released for the internet. www is a hypertext system for publishing information on the internet. the early concept of hypertextuality was developed by years before by ted nelson, in the out-of-print book literary machines.
1988 - 1993 :	patrick self-publishes over 15 chapbooks and "zines" using photocopiers, silkscreens, a macintosh and a laser printer. learns about design, marketing and production values the hard way. a few samples of this early work can be seen in the graphic design portfolio.
1993 - 1995 :	patrick begins working at europa books, an independent bookstore. creates all print ads, catalogs and online presence for the next 2 years. a sample of this work can also be found in the graphic design portfolio.
1994 :	patrick creates his first web pages. and stops using photocopiers in favor of the world wide web.
september 1994 :	patrick joins fringeware, inc. an internet culture magazine and website.
march 8, 1998 :	patrick moves to san miguel de allende, mexico
march 17, 1999 :	fringeware.com, the website that patrick has been a partner and contributor for over 4 years garners the much coveted netscape cool site award, which increases traffic by 40% to over 12,000 visitors per day.
august 1999 :	electron design becomes a texas corporation. (charter number #01544793)
august 1999 :	patrick makes a lifelong commitment to electron design.
august 13, 1999 :	patrick opens a cyber café in san miguel de allende.
january 1, 2000 :	Y2K doesn't happen. situation normal... told ya so.
july 11, 2000 :	patrick makes a lifelong commitment.
december 5, 2000 :	internet san miguel cyber café moves to its new location, mesones #57.
september 11, 2001 :
may 25, 2002 :	patrick's hobby website, www.popsubculture.com surpasses 200,000 unique visitors since july 1999, now averaging over 500 daily.
august 12, 2002 :	teresa guzman joins the electron design staff as assistant website designer. patrick now can dedicate more time to his successful search engine optimization services.
october 22, 2002 :	patrick's supposed gains from nigerian hoax fraud emails would now exceed $500 million dollars.
january 17, 2003 :	patrick's site www.popsubculture.com is featured in USAToday.com as a "hot site".
february 02, 2003 :	patrick's supposed gains from nigerian fraud emails would now exceed $1 billion dollars. but that is still less than 3% of bill gate's net worth.
march 15, 2003 :	this is that day that patrick turned 35... damn, i'm old.
april 11, 2003 :	if you are familiar with Google's google.public.support.general newsgroup, the "cyandle scandal" may amuse you.
april 17, 2003 :	jessica de la mancha joins the staff as assistant website designer; teresa goes on maternity leave... good luck tere!
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