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 ~Boston Massachusetts and moved into our new house. What a hectic couple of weeks. |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. Never capitalized on it. | |
| Spring | Worked at a ISP called 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". |
| 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. |
| 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). Definitely made posts to CMU boards, in 1980 from Tartan Labs. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 college at the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 1980 | Summer | Worked at Tartan Laboratories as a programmer. They pay me for this? |
| 1979 | September | Started high school. |
