Rotary Club of Petaluma

Our Original Website

July 17, 2000

 

The Rotary Club of Petaluma website (www.petalumarotary.org) has been on the Web since July 17, 2000. Websites were a new phenomenon then and we’ve saved the original website for posterity. This is what you would have seen in 2000 on your tiny cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor:

 

Website Screenshot

 

You would have waited for the page to slowly load over a dial-up modem connected to your AOL or CompuServe account. Today you can view this actual home page on your flat screen monitor — or smart phone — by clicking the image above. Then click your way through the entire website, all seven pages of it!

 

Website Screenshot

Seventeen years later in July 2017, just before the Club transitioned to a new, proprietary website format, the home page looked like this.

 

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.An old English proverb