Shelby H.

I wrote one of the world's first wysiwyg full featured word processors (Word Up) back in 1986 before MS Word was graphical. Had significant market share on the Atari ST, back in the day where it wasn't clear whether the Mac, IBM PC, Amiga, or AtariST would win. I was one of the first outside programmers brought in to work on what became Corel Painter. I created arguably the world's first significant social network when my CoolPage drop+drop web page editor had roughly a million users publishing to Yahoo Geocities from 1998 to 2001 or so. Then came Friendster with a simpler model and the concept of friend links. My conceptual thinking is demonstrated on my blog. [login to view URL] (note I am not violating the terms of this site, because my contact information is not available at the link above, nor can you post a comment there, nor will googling the url above allow you to find a way to contact me outside this site. Please do NOT contact me outside this site.) I completed three of the tests on this site to know what they test. I'm HTML proficient having created complex web sites. I'm listed at the W3C as a contributor to CSS2.1 on tables and recently on the multi-column spec. Being primary conceptually focused, I don't expend too much time remembering every arcane detail which I don't use in my projects, thus the 85% result (96th percentile). I'm surprised I missed a question on the Numeric exam, because I'm so mathematical and do calculations quickly in my head. I took that after being awake and working for about 36 hours. I achieved 72 WPM with 100% accuracy on the following typing test: [login to view URL]