Gray Watson - Life Timeline

Here is a quick timeline from my life. I started this recently while catching up with an old friend from college. Thought it would be a nice addition to my home page. Hope to keep it up to date.

2001	September 11	New Day of Infamy. The tragedy did not impact my life directly but it is just too important to not be referenced here.
2000	January	My dad, Charles Watson, dies.
1999	October	Closed on our house in Pittsburgh. Moved up to Lexington (Boston) Massachusetts and closed on our house there. What a hectic couple of weeks.
	August	With little Timmy in tow, traveled up to the Boston area to look for houses. After 10 days of looking at 40-50 houses in Waltham, Framingham, Hopkinton, Needham, Dedham, Belmont, and Arlington, we found our new home in Lexington.
	June	The day after (sic) Timmy was born, Ro and I found out that my job was moving up to Boston. What a roller coaster of a week.
	June	Timothy Connolly Watson was born.
1998	October	Discovery of parasite living inside Rosemary. Nine short months till the start of the rest of our lives.
1996	September	Married to Rosemary.
1996	January	Started working for Lycos.com.
1995	December	Propose to my girlfriend of 18 months, Rosemary McCrudden.
	Fall	Consulted for the US Bureau of Mines until the department was axed in appropriations.
	August	Started Web Counter one of the more popular initial sites on the Web at the time. Had over 400,000 clients within a couple of months.
	Spring	Worked at USA OnRamp in Pittsburgh, setting up all of their operations.
1994	December	Left Antaire Corporation after one hell of a learning experience.
1991	April	Not sure exactly when but at some point Antaire.com joined the Internet. 4/21/1991 is the first post to usenet using Antaire.com that I could find. Initially through a uucp link with Biomed. Our class-C was registered on 11/27/1992 and we had a PPP connection via modem to PSInet. Back then it was email, ftp, nntp, etc.. The web was later. We ran on ESIX for a while, then BSDI (BSD/OS) v0.9 (?) on a Zeos 386 "clone".
1990	April	Left Biomed to devote all of my attention and efforts to Antaire.
1989	December	Started Antaire Corporation with a business partner. Initially we were going to be writing video rental database software but got into nursing home databases instead.
1989	July	Navigator on the Marion Bermuda race aboard the family's sailboat.
1988	February	First post that I can find that I made to Usenet (local). Most likely made previous posts, possibly as fasr back as 1980 from Tartan Labs.
1988	January	Started back at University at Pittsburgh part time in the evenings.
1987	March	Started working at the Office of Biomedical Informatics, a small medical software lab with University of Pittsburgh.
1986	December	Crossed the Atlantic on the Sea Cloud to Antigua where I left the ship and returned to Pittsburgh.
1986	June	Worked as a deck hand on the "Sea Cloud" in the Mediterranean Sea (Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, France, Tunisia) and the Black Sea (Bulgaria, Rumania, and USSR).
1985	Fall	Worked in Philly at a small communications company for 6 months. Great experience with mismanagement.
1985	May	Asked to leave Penn just because I didn't go to class. Bastards. I need to scan in the letter. It's amusing.
1983	September	Started school at the University of Pennsylvania.
1983	May	Graduated from Allderdice.
1980	Summer	Worked at Tartan Laboratories as a programmer. They pay me for this?
1979	September	Started at Taylor Allderdice High School.
1979	May	Graduated from St. Edmund's Academy.

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