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Mark Blair is a\u00a0Website architect<\/strong>,\u00a0Internet strategist <\/strong>and\u00a0techno-sociologist<\/strong>. He became interested in social networking at an early age while coding his own\u00a0bulletin board systems<\/a>\u00a0(BBS) in Microsoft BASIC to run off of a floppy disk on giant, silver\u00a0Radio Shack Model III computer<\/a>\u00a0that looked like it had escaped from the set of Star Trek. The whole system ran from a floppy disk in 64k of memory \u2013 just a little more space than is consumed by this web page. People from across the North Bay used the system to dial in with their modems and leave messages for each other. Not quite Facebook, but it worked.<\/p>\n Fascinated by the vast potential of social networking, he pursued the subject and earned his\u00a0degree in Sociology<\/strong>\u00a0at Sonoma State University, with an emphasis on researching the impact of emerging Internet technologies upon social systems. His final paper explored the social dynamics of Internet newsgroups, once the focal point of public conversation in the years preceding the Web.<\/p>\n In 1996, he cofounded\u00a0Pacific Web<\/a>\u00a0in Sonoma County. Ten years later Pacific Web was recast as\u00a0Blairworks<\/strong>, in a desire to better reflect his personal commitment and involvement in each of the services that the company provides.<\/p>\n Mark has a particular fondness for coffee and can often be found tunneling into the Blairworks network from cafes in\u00a0Cotati<\/a>\u00a0or throughout the rest of Sonoma County. He also is an avid traveler and works out of his \u201cother\u201d home office in his wife\u2019s hometown of\u00a0Sarajevo<\/a>\u00a0upon occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Blair is a\u00a0Website architect,\u00a0Internet strategist and\u00a0techno-sociologist. He became interested in social networking at an early age while coding his own\u00a0bulletin board systems\u00a0(BBS) in Microsoft BASIC to run off of a floppy disk on giant, silver\u00a0Radio Shack Model III computer\u00a0that looked like it had escaped from the set of Star Trek. The whole system ran […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blairworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}