In mid-1993, moved to San Francisco and was struck by the culture of people helping one another online. In early 1995, he launched a simple email CC list to notify about a dozen friends of "cool events" in the arts and technology scene.
: In San Francisco alone, it eventually grew to receive over 23,000 daily posts .
: For years, the site was run out of San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood on 9th Avenue. 🏛️ A San Francisco Cultural Mirror
: It remains famous for its bare-bones HTML design, which has barely changed in decades.