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The Webweaver Story
IT STARTED WITH THE WEB
IT STARTED WITH THE WEB
In June 1996, I registered Webweaver.com and started Web Weaver Design Services in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The commercial web was still young. Most businesses were only beginning to understand what a website was—or why they might need one.
What started with building websites soon grew into helping businesses with computers, networks and technology in general. Webweaver became much more than web design.
1996 was the beginning of a thirty-year journey that continues today.
FROM WEB DESIGN TO TECHNOLOGY
FROM WEB DESIGN TO TECHNOLOGY
What began as a web design business quickly grew beyond websites.
Webweaver built and hosted websites for businesses and organizations, including some of my earliest customers in the Ann Arbor area. Over the years, I would build and host roughly 50 websites.
But customers rarely needed just a website. They needed computers configured, networks connected, problems solved and someone they could call when technology stopped cooperating.
Webweaver gradually became a broader technology business — providing many of the services that would later become commonly known as managed IT services.
In August 2000, Web Weaver Design Services became Webweaver, LLC.
2003 — WEBWEAVER GROWS UP
2003 — WEBWEAVER GROWS UP
By 2003, Webweaver had grown well beyond its beginnings in web design. We were hosting websites on Linux and Windows servers, offering server colocation and e-commerce services, and had become a Smoothwall Partner/Reseller.
What started as building websites had evolved into providing the technology and infrastructure behind them.
THE TECHNOLOGY KEPT CHANGING
THE TECHNOLOGY KEPT CHANGING
Webweaver was only one part of the journey. Alongside the business, my career moved deeper into systems administration, networking, servers, storage and enterprise infrastructure.
I watched the technology world move from standalone PCs and dial-up connections to broadband, data centers, virtualization and cloud computing. Systems became larger and more complex, but the basic challenge remained the same: understand how the pieces fit together and make them work reliably.
Over the years I've worked with everything from small-business networks to large enterprise environments, including managing VMware infrastructure and data-center systems on both coasts.
The tools changed. The problem-solving never did.
2015 — THE BUSINESS ENDS. THE NAME LIVES ON.
2015 — THE BUSINESS ENDS. THE NAME LIVES ON.
After nearly two decades, Webweaver, LLC officially closed in February 2015.
By then, my career had moved firmly into enterprise technology, and running a separate technology business no longer made much sense. But I kept Webweaver.com.
The business was gone, but the name had been part of my life since 1996 — and I wasn't quite ready to let it disappear.
As it turns out, Webweaver still had another chapter.
2026 — 30 YEARS ON THE WEB
2026 — 30 YEARS ON THE WEB
Webweaver began in 1996 as a small web design business. Thirty years later, the business may be gone, but Webweaver is still here.
Today, it's become something different — a place for the things I'm building, exploring and preserving.
From private AI and homelab projects to LifeHistory and whatever experiment comes next, Webweaver has come full circle: back to learning, building and sharing simply because I enjoy it.
Thirty years later, I'm still curious about what comes next.
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