June 1995After being introduced to chai at an Indian resturant in Boulder, Colorado we tried to find out more about this wonderful drink. Finding nothing at the library and very little online, we decided to put a quick web site together. The original site was built in one day - Father's Day , June 1995. We included a Comments section where other enthusiasts could share their recipes, chai experiences, etc. Usage of the site was limited to a few hundred 'hits' a month for the first few months. However, we received many wonderful and heartfelt thanks from those who also wanted to know more about chai. October 1996The original website was hosted on a PowerPC Macintosh in our basement at home since we had a 64KB dedicated Internet circuit into our house. We ran multiple websites from home which beat our poor computer to death. We hosted some highly popular websites at home (award winning Coyote Creek Elementary School and Ralph Mahan's Wolf Report). In October 1996 we moved all our web activity out of the house. In the process we lost the nice web program that posted reader's comments automatically. We had to manually rework each comment to html as it came in. As chai gained in popularity more people were finding their way to our little web site. Feburary 1997With our work and life demanding more of us, we had to quit accepting user comments on Feburary 24, 1997. We removed our email address and decided to just let the site die a slow death. We turned our attentions elsewhere, but were saddened that we had shut things off. March 1998The Chai! website continued to grow in popularity as more and more people discovered chai and turned to web site for recipes and information. We posted a webmaster's appeal to see if someone else would take over the site. A number of people replied in just a few days! We got a call from a food correspondent at the Boston Globe asking us for an interview. We got an email from a book publisher inquiring about possibilites of writing a book on chai. So, we decided we would jump in again!!! And here it is, after three weeks of hard work completely reorganizing all the content making it easier to find the great stuff contributed by so many of you. This site would not be here if it were not for the many people around the world who shared their feelings and ideas with all of us. |
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