🚨 25 YEARS ONLINE. LET THAT SINK IN. 🚨
This month, AlcoholSales.com celebrates 25 years online.
Twenty-five years.
Back when the Internet was still finding its way into American businesses. When dial-up was the norm, websites loaded one painfully slow page at a time, and hearing that screeching modem connect was the soundtrack of the Internet.
There was no Google as we know it. No Facebook. No YouTube. No smartphones. No cloud. No AI. No APIs.
And the hottest thing in web development?
Microsoft FrontPage.
Yes… FrontPage. 😂
If you wanted information on the Internet, somebody actually had to build it, maintain it, and figure out how to make it work.
And that’s exactly what we did.
In 2001 Alcoholsales.com went online with a simple idea: put valuable alcohol sales and business information in the hands of the people who could use it.
At a time when most businesses were still asking, “Why do we need a website?” we were already building an online information resource for the Texas alcohol industry.
No AI to write the code.
No API to hand us the data.
No modern development platforms.
No sophisticated databases sitting in the cloud.
Just a vision, a lot of persistence, and a willingness to figure it out.
For 25 years, technology has changed dramatically.
We went from dial-up to fiber.
From desktop computers to smartphones.
From static webpages to interactive maps.
From manual research to real-time data.
From FrontPage to AI.
But one thing hasn’t changed:
Our commitment to providing useful business information to the people who need it.
Twenty-five years online isn’t just a birthday.
It’s a reminder that we were doing this before it was easy.
Before APIs.
Before AI.
Before the cloud.
Before most people even understood what the Internet was going to become.
— 25 years online.
25 years of data.
25 years of innovation.
25 years of being a pioneer.
And we’re not done yet.
Here’s to the next 25. 🥂
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