Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
@ingrid Oh geez, I think some of the people I worked with died, but we were doing web accessible maps of county land use in 1997(I think), the ISP I worked with in concert with a weird little non profit ("Southwest Data Center") and Ouray County, Colorado. I might be able to scare up some contacts if I shake my memory hard enough.
@ingrid Oh there we go! https://web.archive.org/web/20050206033808/http://www.southwestdata.org/tools/contact/contact.shtml
Bill died, Randy I think is still around my hometown, Karen moved to Oregon and started Off Piste Magazine and might be able to be found. There's a couple other people who were involved but never a part of the organization on the ISP side — my boss and the former owner the ISP; me; and the original owner of OurayNet who is now off in Hawaii.
@ingrid And https://web.archive.org/web/19961220091746/http://landuse.com/ is even older part of that work.
@ingrid Some major bit rot, but https://web.archive.org/web/20050317074718/http://www.southwestdata.org/data/data.shtml