We are formerly Pacific Web
Pacific Web was founded in 1996 by Matt Walker (aka SirMongo) and Mark Blair. The company offices were located in downtown Cotati, the hub of Sonoma County in Northern California.
As childhood friends, Matt and Mark had both pursued a strong interest in computers. From these foundations, Matt went on to become a graphic designer, while Mark pursued computer programming. With Pacific Web, both were able to leverage their skills in a complementary way, working together to provide innovative Web solutions for the regional marketplace.
Pacific Web went on to develop numerous websites over the years for local companies and organizations, including websites for a number of local wineries and a couple of municipalities.
From day one, Pacific Web developed websites that were tailored to fit the specific needs of a business, believing that care and creativity is required in order to properly portray a business on the Web.
In 2002, Matt and his family left Sonoma County for the beautiful New Hampshire coast. After Matt moved on, Darwin Knaggs was a partner in the company for several years until he himself left Sonoma County. Soon afterwards, Mark obtained full ownership of the company and has been continuing with Pacific Web’s original attitude towards custom-tailored web development and goal-oriented web design.
While our methodology has evolved and our name has changed, the original vision and spirit of Pacific Web lives on.
Pacific Web's founding vision of Internet Community Development
The following is from our original website, launched in early 1996:
At Pacific Web, our vision is to take disconnected worlds and to help fuse them together. We believe that the virtual can complement the physical and that virtual communities can be seamlessly joined with our physical ones.
We believe that we can have the best of both worlds and that the Internet can complement our daily lives, enhancing all aspects of community life -- that it can energize the business, the political, the educational, and the social sectors.
We put our efforts into designing and implementing Internet structures and Web sites that serve this purpose. We use the technologies of today and actively promote those of the future that best serve the community.
We don’t believe that technology needs to exact a human toll, as it so often has. We believe it can make our daily lives more enjoyable to live, and enrich our everyday experiences.
That is what Internet Community Development is all about.