Timeshare Resales :: Timeshare Resales Internet History Part Two

This is part two of Timeshare Resales :: Timeshare Resales Internet History.

Well, in effect, they were right. There was no way that such a powerful worldwide medium would not be used and overtaken by commercial interests, and the end of the internet, at least as they had conceived it, did in fact take place. The connection was done via a telephone line, so anyone with a telephone had potential access to the online world.

Connection via a telephone line was the standard for a couple of years, but, behind the scene, entrepreneurial cable and telephone companies were feverishly working to develop the technology for a faster connection that is commonly known today as "broadband" meaning cable or dsl connectivity. Technology development for ever faster speeds continues to this day.

Back in the computer bulletin board days I knew nothing about web design or html language.

HTML stands for hyper text markup language. It is the computer language source that causes web pages to display and read the way they do, such as the layout, the fonts displayed, the colors, the graphics, etc. When you are viewing a web page, you can view the html by clicking on "view" then click on "source". So when web designers create a web page, they create the html, not what you are looking at when you view it online.

I have since learned a good deal about writing html and I have written a good portion of what appears on our company websites.

But back years ago, I hired someone to design my first website and launched it immediately. Back then there was only one search engine, Yahoo, and it was delightful to see that for the search term "timeshare" there was only one website that came up, which was mine. It actually remained that way for months.

I remember talking to other timeshare brokers who seemed casually interested but who really didn't seem to grasp how the significant change that was occurring in our industry.

But, alas, (I jest), my "monopoly" on internet timeshare marketing was not to last long.

I remember the first time when some other company came up in the search engines, a now defunct company which was named "The Timeshare Mall". That marked the beginning of the end of my internet timeshare "monopoly", and as the years progressed, untold numbers of companies, legitimate and otherwise have crowded the online world. As I write this article, I just did a search on Google for the term timeshare, and it returned 3,870,000 hits. That is a few more than my 1 hit years ago.

I will leave it to you decide if the internet is a good or a bad thing. Like all modern marvels it has elements of both.

But I can't imagine the world without it now, can you?

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Larry Hayden

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