about chris anderson

If you haven't figured out, I generally go about the internet as Andy Anderson, a nickname known to my closest friends and one I inherited from my grandfather, the sainted Edward Otto Anderson.

From my last name, you might guess that I am scandanavian - and you'd be right...that is at least partially.  I'm half German.  The other half is evenly distributed between my being a Swede (hence my last name), Scot (of the clan Thom), English, and Welch.  So, perhaps that is why I like Ikea.

I grew up in a time when computers were rapidly changing where Moore's law was catching up to our use of computers.  It seems now we are chasing Moore's law!

The first computer I used was the venerable Apple ][e.  State of the art with a color monitor, dual 5 ¼ floppy drives, and a dot matrix printer.  It is amazing now that technology has grown so much that my calculator has more power than that computer!

I have been on the internet long before Al Gore invented it.  Having joined the ranks when Archie, Veronica, and Gopher were the rage, I was exploring the new World Wide Web.  Desiging my first sites in the mid-1990's, learning HTML, CSS, Basic, Perl, and PHP as I went along.  My first professional website designed for others arrived in 1999 with the website for my college's Fellowship of Christian Athletes website.