The very very Short History of

Frobozz.com

Way way back in 1994, I met Richard P. White through some mutual friends and acquaintances.

Richard, or RP, was working at Portal Communications at the time. He was already starting up

his own ISP, best.com. At the time, I was making my way through Teacher Credential Classes at

San Jose State. I was let go of a temp job (which lasted almost a year) in the Purchasing Unit of

Santa Clara County Office Of Education. RP offered me a job at best.com, to help out

in the accounting department. Since best.com was in startup mode, there were only two

people in the accounting department, me and Jerry Newman.

Anyway, all this internet stuff was actually pretty new to me. I had a shell access only

account back at UC Santa Cruz, and loved it. (By the way, I was one of the first

people to be able to play Multi-Trek. ) But, best.com was selling PPP accounts and I couldn’t

help but be caught up in point and click instead of mv, cp, rlogin, etc.

I was helping out in the storefront one day, and people were coming in to

register domains. I had no idea what they were talking about. I asked RP

and he explained all about internet domains. I asked if I could get one

and he said, just give me a name.

So, making the hamsters spin in my head, I decided on frobozz.com.

This is taken, of course, from the old Infocom game Zork II, that I

used to play in high school. (as I recall, my friends and I finished all

the Zork and Enchanter series…I didn’t like Planetfall because Floyd was annoying))

I’ve kept frobozz.com registered since.

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