FreeMail Laundry Room

The very best starts...

This picture is in the Laundry Room at Steve's house in Missoula. (This was taken Thanksgiving Day, there was a house-full of friends and visitors. Glenn and I snuck out to the laundry room with one of the bottles of wine. Notice that it is empty! It was a great time. The very best of times...)	Here is a picture from sometime in 1994 of Glenn and Steve working on FreeMail (which we patented, and turned into one of the very first eMail systems for the Internet, licencing our technology to Kinko's and then selling a company to WAM!NET). There were no employees and no business partners then. Just a lot of ideas and obsessive plans. We had no idea of the money storm that was coming, we had no idea that we were helping to build the dot.com world.... Because of Steve's little kids, there were often loads of laundry washing, and there were times when he would answer the phone and have to say, 'Excuse me while I turn off this printer,' when in fact it was the dryer...
Glenn, who was living in Seattle, worked by day for Microsoft (he did a lot of the GUI for Word 6.0) and at night he came home and worked on this card table.
	And, as we grew (through reviews, contracts and investor money) we were joined by another X-Microsoft programmer, William Knight, shown here as his ever obsessive self. William is currently a biochemistry graduate student, working in his spare time on mollecular modeling programs with us.