Welcome to the oldest document online. My name is Craig Brown. As an unemployed Marine Biologist, I became interested in technology when microcomputers were invented.
This site was created when I got my first modem. I decided I would put a record of my career online and keep it updated until I retired.
The first version was on an early bulletin board system, followed by a networked bulletin board system called FidoNet. Lotus Notes, then to Lotus Domino, and finally to an early version of the web.
Every job, every entrepreneurial venture, every success and every …non- success since I was 22 years old is here. Where it was newsworthy, I have included newspaper and magazine clippings. Especially with claims that are hard to believe. Believe it! you’re not going to find anyone that put in a greater effort to achieve the American dream than I did.
I am now beyond retirement age, and I kept my lifelong promise. Many people make claims about their accomplishments. But when I say I built the first commercial AI, it’s documented here. When I say I built the first job board, the first streaming video, and many more things, it’s true!
About the name “Poltergeist”: If you look into the USENET archives, you may come across a report that I had died. I know it existed as of ten years ago because, when I was interviewing for Kaspersky, they asked me how I accomplished some of the things they had read about in the archive.
So, as Mark Twain once said, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. However, if you hear that same rumor now, don’t be too quick to dismiss it 😊.