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Interest
in Vacation Timeshare Evolves Mightily Since Early 90s
The evolution of the vacation timeshare industry through the eyes of
Larry Hayden, President of Timeshare
Resales Worldwide, who was the lone timeshare website operator in
the early 90's.
(PRWEB) December 17, 2005 -- Little known historical facts about what
is today a large industry, Vacation Timeshare, are published in The
Timeshare Answers Guide authored by the operator of the world's oldest
Internet timeshare website, Larry Hayden. As the sole timeshare broker
who was online on the Internet in the early 90's he shares his unique perspective
and first-hand knowledge of the very beginnings of timeshare marketing
on the Internet.
Back in 1991, which was before the Internet became popular, Larry was
the only one marketing timeshare resales via electronic computer bulletin
boards. Bulletin boards were a very important part of corporate business
for small and large businesses alike. Bulletin boards as they were used
then have now disappeared with the advent of the Internet.
But, Larry recalls being fascinated by a book he read about a little
known subject called the Internet.
As he read the book, he states that it quickly became obvious to him
that vacation timeshare would be the perfect vehicle to market to a worldwide
audience, and the Internet was a worldwide medium. After all, is there
anyone in the entire world who doesn't like to vacation?
With computer bulletin boards, people had to place a long distance telephone
call in order to connect and use the bulletin board. How marvelous it was
that with the Internet, the connection did not require payment of a long
distance telephone call. Larry saw that his bulletin board would soon be
moth-balled along with the several thousand dollars he had spent in programming
the software for it.
The Internet was developed and used only by the government for non-commercial
activities, so back in those days it was considered an abuse to post anything
of a commercial nature, and the Internet purists predicted that commercial
activity would be the end and downfall of the Internet.
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 the purists 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 to attain ever faster speeds continues to this day.
Back in the computer bulletin board days, Larry 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 code that creates the
page you are viewing, 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.
Larry has since learned a good deal about designing html. He wrote
everything that appears on his company website, which is arguably the largest timeshare resale site on the net.
But back years ago, Larry hired someone to design his first website
and launched it immediately. Back then there was only one search engine,
Yahoo, and for the search term "timeshare" there was only one website that
came up, which was Larry's. It actually remained that way for months.
Larry remembers talking to other timeshare brokers who seemed casually
interested in the Internet but who really didn't seem to grasp the powerful
marketing potential of the Internet as a worldwide medium.
But Larry's "monopoly" on Internet timeshare marketing was not to last
long.
Larry states: "I remember the first time when some other company came
up in the search engines, a now defunct company that was designed by a
former employee of RCI. 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. 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."
Says Larry, "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?"
For more information, visit Larry's website at www.alltimeshare.com
or call Toll Free 888-696-8463.
About Timeshare Resales Worldwide:
Timeshare Resales Worldwide in Carlsbad, CA, deals exclusively in timeshare
resales, specializing in premium resorts and RCI Points. The company maintains
the net's largest timeshare resales website, which contains a searchable
database of over 9,000 resale listings for sale world wide.
The company does not charge any sort of upfront fee as a requirement
for sellers to list their timeshare for sale.
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