Why You Can’t Buy a Car on Nissan.com – Now I Know

In the late nineties - 1998? - my good friend Andy Hasse wanted to get a job as a web producer for one of the San Francisco mayoral campaigns. Not a specific campaign; Andy just likes politics and he was real into the web.

In hopes of landing a job he registered the domains of all the candidates. Eventually someone at Clint Reily's campaign looked into how they might get a job and found Andy's contact info, so they gave him a job.

A few months later I howled with laughter when I found Andy named on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. It seems that the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club was accusing the Reilly campaign of cybersquatting on williebrown.com.

No so; Andy just wanted a job. Had Willie Brown stumbled across willibrown.com before Clint Reilly found clintreilly.com, Andy would have been helping Slick Willy.

I offered Andy some free hosting; he put up a site let's see if the wayback machine has it... yes. There's several different versions, this one backs Tom Ammiano for mayor:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000119153725/http://www.willie...

Moments after hitting this article, I was 'greeted' by the most awful, full blast, in-my-face, nausea-inducing swinging pop-up begging me to sign up i've ever seen. Please take it down asap, thank you.

nice to see the little guy "win", reminds me of the mike-rowe-soft.com thing a few years back

Thanks, I wrote this!