The Internet License Plate Gallery [con't]
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Andy King | First registered in March 1995, this Michigan license plate (WEBMSTR) adorns the rear of a gold 1998 Honda Accord. The front plate reads WEBREF, which when typed into your browser, redirects to webreference.com. | One of the principals of Athenia Associates, and an employee of internet.com as WebReference.com's Managing Editor/webmaster, Andy King tried out numerous combinations of possible plates for fun when he was younger, including his personal favorite IAMYODA. Andrew decided instead to grab a vanity plate about his profession, that of WEBMASTER. WEBMSTR fit nicely and Andrew enjoys the smiles he sees in his rear view mirror. |
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Rich Wiggins | First registered in 1993. This Michigan plate is currently registered to a reliable aging hunk of metal, a 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis. | Rich's significant other, Judy Matthews, wanted to get him an INTERNET plate when Rich started work on a book, The Internet for Everyone: A Guide for Users & Providers. INTERNET was too long and INTERNT looked odd, so the plate became INTRNET. |
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| This California license plate adorns a Ford F150 Extended Cab pickup truck. | Fiedler says "I started writing for InfoWorld in 1980 and things went on from there..." He is the former editor-in-chief of webdeveloper.com, an internet.com Web site. |
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Herb Wiggins, Jr. | This Alabama plate identifies Herb's 1989 Mercury Grand Marquis, still running well. Registered in 1996. | This plate belongs to the older brother of the owner of the Gallery. His inspiration must've been the INTRNET plate his brother brought home for Christmas one year. (Little brothers can say things like that when they run the Gallery.) |
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P. J. Stafford | Registered in 1997, this plate is attached to a Cadillac Seville STS. | The owner is one of the principals of Bowne Internet Solutions, formerly known as the Internet Factory. This Web design house is based in based in Birmingham, Michigan and is part of the 200-year-old Bowne publishing family. "Inspiration? Someone already took Internet and Webmaster and the variations :)" |
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Rosamaria Stafford | Registered in 1997, this plate adorns a Jeep. | The owner is also a principal of Bowne Internet Solutions, a Web design house based in Birmingham, Michigan. "Inspiration? Everything seems to be Dot Com these days, why shouldn't my plate be?? :)" |
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Kevin Savetz | This California plate identifies the 1996 Honda Accord -- named Ziggy -- driven by Kevin Savetz. | Kevin has written several books about the Internet, including one that's a compendium of FAQ files posted on Usenet. Kevin is known as a ready source of answers for geeks as well as newbies; apparently the tag means we're all Net Folks. |
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Holly Valero | Holly Valero's "brand new jade green Suzuki Sidekick" sports this Maine license plate. | Holly is the Creative Manager for Guy Gannett Communications New Media and also runs her own Web site. Twice a Webmaster, better have the vanity plate to match! |
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Chris Frezza | Chris Frezza is a Camaro Z.28 nut. Hmmmm, I wonder what kind of car his vanity plate appears on?? | Chris makes good use of a vanity plate frame. The plate provides the command and the frame tells where to find him! |
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Matthew Walker | Matthew Walker is a Linux lover. Linux is a complete Unix operating system implementation you can get for free on the Internet. Linux fans tend to be rabid. Don't mention FreeBSD to them. :-) | Matthew's Web page says he has just gotten a degree in MIS and needs a job. If you hire him, let me know -- this could be the first license plate that ever landed someone employment! |
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Jean Armour Polly | This plate and frame identify Jean's 1992 maroon Toyota Camry wagon ("made in Kentucky!" says Jean). Jean registered the plate with NY state in 1997 after she registered Netmom as a trademark with the Federal government. (!) | Jean Armour Polly is author of The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages which is now out in its second edition. But don't let her monicker fool ya: Jean is not only Net Mom but also a librarian and an Internet veteran of long standing. |
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Richard Stiennon | This plate adorns the Michigan vehicle driven by Richard Stiennon. | Richard Stiennon was an early principal of Rust.Net, a Detroit-area Internet Service Provider. He's an entrepreneur who's worked at several ISPs; he even sells a kit telling how to start your own ISP. Check our Richard's other cool vanity plate. |
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Les Peters | First registered in 1995, this Virginia plate is affixed to a 2000 Land Rover Discovery Series II. | "My reason for registering this plate is that I am an Unix system administrator, and I wanted my car to reflect this. I realize that this is not strictly an Internet plate, but I was advised by a friend to submit it." Whaddya say, gang, is this Internet-related enough to remain in the Gallery? |
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Marc Bjorkman | This plate was registered in 1994 and identifies a Honda Civic. | "I was inspired to get the license plate because my wife and I met on the Internet... she's from Vermont and I'm from Pennsylvania. If you notice, the picture of the plate has an Apple logo sticker on it too ... representing the computer company which provided the computers we met on." Awwwww, is that mushy or what? |
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