The 6.9 page
The Infiltrator 450SEL 6.9 page becomes the seed of ssmithnet.net and its Mercedes-Benz history.
Archive
The old internet is part of the story.
A record of where this came from.
ssmithnet.net dates from the 1990s, when personal sites were something you built rather than something a platform gave you. This page keeps a few pieces of that history visible.
Cars, web pages, experiments.
The domain stays personal: cars, early web work, experiments and whatever else is worth putting online.
Windows, Solaris and games
Voluntary participation in Microsoft Windows ME beta testing and the Solaris beta team, along with EA game beta work.
Computing became the profession.
The personal site stayed personal while the work moved deeper into systems, software and infrastructure.
The domain returns.
The current revision brings the old material together with the projects, cars and ideas that are still worth having around.
Memory
The interesting bits stay interesting.
Some details belong here simply because they happened.
Testing
Beta tester
Windows ME beta testing included a Beta Tester of the Month award. Other beta work included Solaris and EA game projects.
Web
Before everything was a profile.
The original site was a personal place on the open web, built by hand and kept because having a place of your own mattered.