The Internet License Plate Gallery [con't]
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Katie Aron | This Texas plate was registered in 1996, and graces red Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 (Twin Turbo). | Katie is a Web Designer/Programmer for CompuCom in Dallas, TX. "The plate gets a lot of comments when I stop at the gas station, grocery store, etc. Most people don't understand it and ask me what it means, but the people that do understand it seem to think it's cool and tend to chuckle as they point at my plate. I have even had police officers pull me over to question me about my plate." You can read that story at Katie's Web Site. |
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Jennifer Bergeron | This Rhode Island plate adorns her brand new 2000 Saturn SL2. | Jennifer is a graphic designer and owner of Stillwater Graphics, a freelance Web design business. She also enjoys her ten year career at MEDITECH where she designs and maintains MEDITECH.com. Her husband, Phil, and baby, Justin, can often be seen driving around in the "BITMAP Mobile" as it is fondly referred to! Most of the time BITMAP can be seen flying down Rt. 95 to work. |
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Than Chariya | Plate first registered in 1997. | Than Chariya is the Network Manager at Kuck & Associates, Inc. Super User is a privileged level of Unix system access. |
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| This Wisconsin plate was first registered in August 1997, and has been affixed to a '96 black Buick sedan ever since. | James manages the design and publication of content to the websites of a Biotech company in Madison, WI. "Considering I've spent hundreds of hours over the past four years making and breaking hyperlinks, the name seemed completely appropriate. And yes, it is a tangled web I weave!" |
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Chuck Goolsbee | This Washington plate was first registered in 1999 and adorns a brand spanking new 1999 Volkswagen Beetle. | Chuck owns a small webhosting and consulting company, and has been a Macintosh & UNIX systems and network administrator for years. ("Yeah I've done Windows too, but not voluntarily!") Chuck figured he had to celebrate my new millenium bug somehow... so he made a joke with his new plate, frame, and new car. "I live in the Cascade foothills in rural north Snohomish County about 50 miles outside Seattle. I don't think too many of my neighbors (gun-toting, lumberjack, survivalist types) get the joke. The plate, by the way, *is* Y2K compliant. =)" |
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Joe Sweeney | This New York plate was first registered it in 1996 and bedecks a 1995 Jeep Cherokee. | Joe was the principle maintainer for the corporate website of the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY), where he enabled corporate manuals to be searchable on-line for the campuses. His tool of choice for their NT platform? WinCGI with Visual Basic 4. "When my search engine was complete, I decided to get the vanity plate." Joe now runs his own Web design business. |
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Mark Tacchi | Registered in 1999 this plate makes a hip cherry pink 1969 VW beetle even hipper. | "I just got this plate. If someone spots me, honk! BTW, Hipbone is an Internet startup that allows two or more people to connect their Web browsers from different locations and surf together." Mark's the President and CEO. |
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Ward Hammond | This South Carolina plate was first registered it in 1999 and adorns a 1997 Jeep Cherokee 4x4. | "I've been an online junkie since 1983. I ran a BBS for years. At one point I had Compuserve, AOL, GEnie, Prodigy and Delphi accounts. I developed my first commercial site in 1995 (kayaker.com). Since then I've created numerous commercial sites. Presently I'm in an Intranet development mode... Webullient is my new company name...Spirit filled Web design." |
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Kevin White | This Kansas plate was first registered it in 1997 and adorns a 1988 Ford T-bird Turbo. | Kevin owns a small Web development company called "CyberKansas," thus the Web-oriented plate. "The neat thing is that even old ladies know exactly what it means." He just recently took on the chores of New Media directory at the local NBC affiliate in Wichita where he is redeveloping their Web site. |
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Sheldon Goldberg | This California plate was first registered it in 1995 and adorns a 1995 Honda Passport. | Sheldon is the President of Hurl Net, that sells registration and billing software to ISPs. His wife Susan sent his plate in to surprise him. The name sound familiar? It's from Wayne's World, pretty gnarly dude. "We do mean hurl! At conventions, people always ask why we have this name. Our answer is everyone either likes it or hates it but they never forget it." |
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Burton Davis | This Wisconsin plate was first registered it in 1995 and adorns a 1999 Dodge Durango. | Burton works as a Director for Oracle Corp. maintaining a departmental Web site, and is part of a specialized sales team focusing on e-business. "I used to get a lot a strange looks, now most people just shake their heads." |
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Joel McQuilliams | This Virginia plate was first registered it in 1998 and adorns a 1992 Geo Metro Convertible. "My wife wouldn't let me put it on our new car. :)" | Joel is the Director of Technology for V! Studios, an Internet development company in Northern Virginia. "I've spent at least half of my life in the past 10 years on the 'Net so this plate seemed to be the next logical step in my addiction." |
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Eva Holtsmark | This Virginia plate was registered in 1999 and adorns a 1993 Mazda Miata. | Eva owns e-VA electronic productions, an Internet solutions provider and electronic production studio in high-tech Northern Virginia. |
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Glen Spaulding | This California plate was first registered in 1994 and currently adorns a 1999 Camaro Z28. | Glen is a Consulting System Engineer II for Cisco Systems, Inc. He holds numerous networking certifications including Cisco CCIE, Microsoft MCSE, and Novell Master CNE. |
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Teri Williams | This Idaho plate was registered in June of 1999 and graces a 1993 Ford Exporer. | Teri owns a Web design company in Boise Idaho - Web Treasure Design. "I was inspired by your gallery and just had to get an Internet plate of my very own. :)" |
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Brad Cox | This New Hampshire plate was registered in 1998 and adorns a 1985 Jeep CJ-7. | Brad's a system administrator for a small Web development company in CA, IX Labs. They use RedHat Linux as their primary OS. "The main reason for getting the plate is that computers and linux are a large part of my life (I am a nerd)." A friend of Brad's has "LINUX-", so their plates went well together. |