House purchase started under contract today. Should close August 27th.

I realized today how I can describe what my level of patience has been.

It was best described as the patients of a two year old. That said, I always needed to apply a lot of effort every time I need to be patient.

Although It has greatly improved over the years I still get frustrated with others when I need to relay on them.

The Most Complete “Multi-Device” Internet/Intranet Solution!

More than just a Web server, the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server provides solutions for a broad range of Internet and Intranet needs. Besides acting as a Web, FTP, Telnet, and SMTP/POP3 e-mail server, the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server gives webmasters and system administrators the power to provide truly interactive Web content with threaded messaging, indexed document retrieval, user authentication, secure commerce and real-time chat, and more! With 32-bit, multithreaded power, easy set-up and administration, and flexible expandability, the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server is the perfect platform to build or augment your online presence.

You heard the new buzz word, “Multi-Device”? Microsoft just “invented it”. The funny thing is, WINServer has always been a Multi-Device System!! Single Source “Server” provides information to any device, in any FORMAT you like! Its ready for the Future! TODAY! Ideal for the System Integrator or System Designer who needs a powerful, secured, scalarable intranet for new device connectivity!!

Here are just a few capabilities which set the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server apart from the competition:

Dial-up Connectivity

Don’t limit your potential audience to only those people who are already connected to the Internet. Less than one third of people who own a computer and modem currently have access to the Internet. With the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server, users can connect directly to your server via dial-up modem without all the hassle of setting up Winsock, Dial-Up Networking or other Internet connectivity utilities. All a Windows user needs is the Wildcat! Navigator and a modem and they can connect directly to your system. You can even give them access to browse the Web via their dial-up connection if your server is linked to the Internet.

Security & User Authentication

What’s the use of putting up a Web server if you have no way to tell who’s surfing your site? With the Wildcat! Interactive Net Server, you can require users to log on with a unique name and password, and easily gather demographic information from the customers and prospects who hit your site. And Wildcat!’s user authentication even lets you tailor the information to which they have access on your site. For example, with a single Wildcat! Interactive Net Server you could target potential customers with sales information, existing customers with support information, and your own employees with human resources information.

Platform Independent

Not only can Windows users download the Wildcat! Navigator to access your site, but anyone with a web browser can participate in your Wildcat! Interactive Net Server’s threaded message bases and file libraries. Plus, Active HTML opens your door to Macintosh users and virtually anyone connected to the Internet and lets them become part of your community on the ‘Net.

Server Access Control

The Internet is a wide open frontier of information and one of the most exciting new technologies that’s come along in the past 10 years. But, as with almost any new frontier, you may have some concerns about what information is available via your server. The Wildcat! Interactive Net Server gives you the power to block access to specific Internet sites you may deem unsuitable for your audience. You can even limit access to only a specified list of addresses. This feature is ideal for educators that would like to provide limited Internet access to their students.

This the first software I used back in the early 90svto run BBSs and developed my first web server.

Wildcat! BBS is a bulletin board system server application that Mustang Software developed in 1986 for MS-DOS, and later ported to Microsoft Windows.

Wildcat! BBS
Developer(s)
Mustang Software
Initial release
1986
Platform
MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows
Type
bulletin board system server application
The product was later expanded to integrate Internet access under the name WINServer (Wildcat! Interactive Net Server). Mustang sold Wildcat! to Santronics Software, Inc. on November 19, 1998.[1] Santronics had been an active third-party developer for the Wildcat! product lines since 1991.

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List of BBS software
List of terminal emulators
References
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“Mustang Software Announces Sale of Wildcat! BBS Product Lines to Santronics Software, Inc”. 1998-11-19. Retrieved 2005-04-17.
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PowWow (chat program)

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PowWow was the first[3] Internet instant message and chat program for Windows. It was made by a company called Tribal Voice, Inc.

PowWow

Developer(s)
Tribal Voice
Initial release
December 1994; 29 years ago[1]
Final release
4.2.2 / October 2000; 23 years ago[2]
Operating system
Windows
Type
Instant messaging client
Website
www.tribal.com (archived)
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Many of the features found in contemporary instant messaging programs were first introduced in PowWow. The program also had several innovative features such as allowing users to talk with each other using VoIP, a shared whiteboard, a built-in speech synthesizer, WAV sound file playing, offline transmittal of instant messages via POP/SMTP, and the ability for users to share their web surfing experience concurrently by redirecting either party to a new URL when another navigates elsewhere. It also had built-in file transfer with a simple drag-and-drop interface to make file sharing very easy.

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The company was founded in Woodland Park, Colorado, United States, at the end of 1994,[4] by the software millionaire John McAfee, founder of McAfee Associates (later called McAfee or Intel Security Group). At first, the company described itself, especially on its web site, as a ‘Native American’ company run by Native Americans. As the company grew, the Native American references gradually disappeared.

The company eventually located its corporate headquarters in Scotts Valley, California.

In the late 1990s, Tribal Voice began to OEM the PowWow software in order to increase market share. While most of these deals were insubstantial, several were with high-profile companies, including AT&T’s WorldNet Internet service provider (ISP), search engine/portal AltaVista, and Freeserve, a United Kingdom-based ISP.

PowWow was one of the first instant messaging programs to provide interoperability between multiple instant messaging clients, being compatible with both AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger.

In the late 1990s AOL sued Tribal Voice for use of the phrase ‘buddy list’ and made repeated efforts to block interoperability between their instant messaging client and Tribal Voice’s, as well as those of other companies.

In 1998, original founder McAfee brought in Joseph Esposito, formerly the president and CEO of Encyclopædia Britannica, to run the company.

In 1999, the company was acquired by dot-com incubator CMGI, who moved the company’s development center from Woodland Park to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and closed the Scotts Valley office. In 2000, CMGI merged the company into CMGIon, a division of CMGI, founded with help from Sun Microsystems and Novell. In January 2001, CMGIon closed its Colorado Springs office, the former Tribal Voice