Yes, unfortunately I did know that and we all are well aware this is a huge undertaking. I'm very happy.

I'm indeed willing to take the lead on this because it has to get done. I think the first thing we all need to discuss and we can discuss it right here is workflow. But before we even do that we should discuss technique. Does anyone have any idea what the best way to attack this problem might be? I'd like to hear some ideas. There's got to be a better way than manual editing there just has to be. Even though I've been putting in a ton of time on it whenever I get the time it's just so monumental of a task.

But I could not agree more, this project going to take a group effort. Maybe I should open up a chat for this so we can have a real discussion there? What do you think? Notice if you look we have chat rooms we can create that are static so we can really really go at it without blowing up this forum section.

Thoughts??

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First, let me say, thank you for your kind words!

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I will be brief, but I will give those here who may not know, a very brief history of my original site, silkworth.net, how it came into play, why and its current status. I should also mention at this time, that I'm no computer expert. I'm not a writer or author of anything other than my website.

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I was first introduced to the Fellowship on October 31st, 1981. Anything having to do with Alcoholics Anonymous history was not even on my mind for years. It wasn't until early 1999 that I was First introduced to computers. I didn't even like them. They maid me feel stupid. I didn't even know how to turn One on.

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My mother was taking a trip to our homeland, St. Johns Newfoundland, Canada to visit family. She was already using computers but I was still clueless. At that time, she liked to use a program on the Internet called, "ICQ", which, at that time, I believe was the largest communication network in the World via computers. All you needed in order to use it, was an Internet connection. She showed me how to use ICQ so that we could communicate with one-another without having to pay for long distance phone charges while she was in Newfoundland, Canada and I in South Carolina, USA at the time.

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After learning how to use ICQ, I quickly became fascinated with computers. It was quite apparent that I had a pretty big part of the World at my fingertips. I met folks from around the World, became friends with some, but I grew very tired of the ICQ program quickly because of its limitations. I just new that there was much more I could do with computers, so, I set out to discover, if you will. I started exploring the Internet, searching for anything that came to mind.?

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One topic that has always fascinated me from childhood, was the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. Some of the pages that came back in the search results could do some pretty neat things back then. Of course, back then, everything was pretty neat as far as computers were concerned. I had it in my head that I was going to learn how to do some of those neat tricks. I quickly learned how to view the source code underneath those web pages that made the web pages look the way they did. So, I set out to teach myself how to create my First website (about UFO's, of course). I quickly found a place online that had an editor to create/build websites. It was Netscape, though it was short lived. I was soon introduced to the editor, Dreamweaver, by a truck driver that worked for the same company as I, Eckerd Drug.

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Out of curiosity, I started searching for anything having to do with Alcoholics Anonymous. One day, towards the end of 1999, one page that came back in the search results was about Alcoholics Anonymous history. That site was created by Mitchell K. who was sponsored by Clarence Snyder (to this day, I still have a copy of on the silkworth site today). It wasn't a big website, but it got my undivided attention, 100%. I became fascinated with Alcoholics Anonymous history right a way. It was Mitchell's website that inspired me to start searching for anything having to do with Alcoholics Anonymous and its history, which, of course, led me to start creating my own AA history website.

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At that time, I began searching for anything having to do with AA history and learned how to save all the information returned from the search results - proof reading everything - learning how to do things such as creating a drop down menu. I searched high and low and had accumulated a lot of information about Alcoholics Anonymous. I knew that moving forward meant the site had to be strictly about Alcoholics Anonymous and its history. It couldn't be about any other Twelve Step Program, other than a little information about Al-anon. Thus began my journey... I remember my daughter (about 11 or 12), in my First Five years working on my site. Cheyenne would bring her friends over and she would introduce me to her friends and then my daughter would point to my computer and say, "That's my fathers wife."

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What was very important to me back then and still so now, was to gather as much information about Alcoholics Anonymous and its history, bringing it all to One place on the Internet for folks to find. It was also important for me to present the information in a way that it could somehow, be helpful to the visitors to the site - especially to anyone new to Alcoholics Anonymous. I remember early on, I thought, if the site helped One person, then the site did what it was supposed to do. I'll be 64 on New years Eve and One of the emails that stands out in my mind right now, was an elderly man contacted me and simply stated, "Thank you for saving my sons life!"

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I did a lot of experimenting early on; trying new things and such; continued to learn new things a long the way. The website originally launched on December 12th, 2000 on the World Wide Web to the general public under the domain name: silkworth.net. I was once asked, why did I choose the domain name, silkworth, in the domain name? My answer: "Was it not Dr. Silkworth who better helped us understand our disease of alcoholism?" It became clear to me that the website needed to be provided for free, as it should be; that the site could not be used for monetary gain. In my eyes, Alcoholics Anonymous is not for sale! And this is where my original website, silkworth.net comes into play.?

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In early 2017, after working on the site for approximately 16 years, I gave up the site to a guy just outside of London. He flew here, came to my home, talked a while, we signed a contract - he left the same day. He wasn't to use the site for monetary gain. Well, that is exactly what he has done with the site. He later told me that he was using the site for monetary gain. There has been no contact with him for over 2 years. I was told once that he doesn't reply to visitor emails. And this is where my site, silkworth.info comes into play.

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After being asked by many, I decided to rebuild my website under the new domain name, ; no clutter, no ads, nothing for sale - only the information that the visitor is looking for - black on white for the most part - nothing fancy.? It was suggested that I use the name, Silkworth, in my new domain name address in order to compete with my original website address in the Search Engines. So, there you have it.

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Silkworth.info and all the information it provides, will always be free to the visitors in hopes that it continues to be helpful in some way or another. As time passes, some directories will have to be password protected, requiring membership due to the contents sensitivity/copyrights. Anyone can request membership.

"This Website was created solely for the purpose for someone, somewhere, seeking help and answers about alcohol related problems, so that a new way of living, without the need to drink, can be realized." -from my Disclaimer web page.

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Ever yours,

Jim,

silkworth.info

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