Some companies have people that have been around the Web for a long time. Trusted people who have seen a lot and gained from all the experiences.

We go back on the Web a long way, too. In fact, we go back to when the Web started, with a number of "we were there" moments along the way. One of the first 200 publicly listed websites in 1993, first Python meetup, bootstrapping board for the PSF and Plone Foundation, co-founder of Zope during $14M in VC funding, creator of the content framework for Zope, head of the Zope Foundation, creator of Pyramid...a few things here and there.

The timeline below is a tour of the decades and highlights.

1993

• First compiling a web browser

  Sep 2, 1993, Paul's first archived appearance on the Internet. Asking a question about compiling a web browser and getting a response from Marc Andreesen.

• First www-talk posting

  First www-talk posting. Oct 1993, Paul's first discussion about running the www.navy.mil web server.

• www.navy.mil mentioned publicly

  Paul's www.navy.mil server first announced in November 1993. It appeared on the CERN listing of public websites, anecdotally in the first few hundred that appeared.

1994

• NCSA What's New

  www.navy.mil listed in NCSA What's New, July 1994. This page appeared in the Help menu of NCSA Mosaic.

• First Python meetup

  Paul ran the WWW session at the first Python workshop, held at NIST.

1995

• CGI tutorial, MS Merchant Server

  Paul's CGI tutorial at Python conference which eventually led to our code getting into Microsoft Merchant Server

1996

• W3C Technote

  Paul published a W3C paper about Digital Creation's work on connection objects to web servers

1998

• Open sourcing and Zope

  7th Intenational Python Conference (Houston), announced open sourcing of the commercial software that became Zope, the first open source application server. Managed to sneak into a Washington Post front page article

1999

• Venture Capital Speeches

  Paul's Funding The Perfect Beast presentation first given at a VC conference in downtown San Francisco, as well as at the WWW8 conference, Atlanta Linux Showcase, and other conferences. LWN said: Perhaps one of the best sessions of the show was Paul Everitt's talk entitled Funding the perfect beast: open source, venture capital, and intellectual property.

• Cathedral and the Bazaar

  Appeared in Eric Raymond's influential book on open source

• First major Zope article

  Linux Magazine, 1999, Gold Rush: Venture Capitalists Discover Linux

2000

• O'Reilly Network inaugural edition

  Subject of O'Reilly Network inaugural edition's first ever interview. O'Reilly later became an investor.

• 8th International Python Confefence (Arlington, VA)

  Chris, Paul, and Tres meet for the first time. The Zope track draws a huge large number of folks to the conference

• Creation of CMF

  Tres arrives at Digital Creations, makes first release of CMF, the content framework used by Plone.

• Digital Creations closes $12M round

  Signed the papers on the third round of investment

2001

• PSF boostrappers

  Paul and Greg Stein, first PSF board meeting as bootstrappers and elected to first PSF board

• 9th Intenational Python Conference (Long Beach, CA)

  Tres chaired Zope track

2002

• Tres chairs IPC10 Zope track

  10th Intenational Python Conference (Alexandria, VA). Chaired Zope track

• Board for OSCOM

  Paul joined the board of Open Source Content Management Systems out of Zurich and helped organize OSCOM Berkeley conference.

2003

• First Plone Conference (New Orleans, LA)

  Paul, Tres, and Chris attend, Paul gives "Product or Platform" talk.

2004

• Plone Foundation bootstrapper

  Paul serves on the Plone Foundation bootstrapping board, then acts as first executive director.

• Supervisor 1.0.5 released

  The first non-alpha release of Supervisor, Chris' widely-used software for process management.

2006

• Plone Foundation President

  Paul is elected to PF board and serves as president.

• Founding of Agendaless Consulting

  Tres gets Chris and Paul together in Fredericksburg, visits lawyer, founds Agendaless Consulting.

2007

• Founding of Repoze Project

  Bringing WSGI to Zope and Zope technology to WSGI. http://www.repoze.org/

2008

• Tres elected to the Zope Foundation board

  Tres was elected by the board to fill a newly-created "contriibutor" seat.

• Initial version of Pyramid released as repoze.bfg

  0.1 release of repoze.bfg, the project which is later merged with Pylons to form Pyramid.

2009

• KARL launches atop Pyramid

  Agendaless implements KARL atop Pyramid. KARL is a large-scale extranet / knowledge-management system for NGOs.

2010

• Tres elected Zope Foundation president

  https://mail.zope.org/pipermail/foundation/2010-February/000630.html

• Pylons and repoze.bfg merge to form Pyramid

  See the podcast in which Chris talks about the merger with lead Pylons framework developer, Ben Bangert.

2011

• PyCon DE Keynote

  Paul gave a keynote at PyCon DE in Leipzig.