It Was 14 Years Ago Today…

Written in October 2013 and kept here as it was. Some of what follows has been overtaken by events.

inframes.com ltd was incorporated 14 years ago today.

Unsurprisingly, the company is pretty much unrecognisable from where it began, back in the midst of a dotcom boom when the dotcom bust was a long way ahead and the credit crunch hadn’t been invented.

The internet was in its infancy in 1999. We were still accessing the internet via modems using pay-per-minute dial-up connections, or ISDN if you were very lucky. Downloading a video was usually an agonisingly lengthy procedure. There was no such thing as mobile internet – even WAP-enabled mobiles were still a couple of years away. Home computers were plodding, ugly, grey lumps and laptops cost a small fortune. Most companies didn’t own their own domain name, everyone was talking about the sensation that was lastminute.com and Lycos was still a force to be reckoned with in the search engine business.

Looking back, it seems an almost embarrassingly primitive age. As a company, inframes is now well into its teens, and like most teenagers, it’s hard to look back on our baby pictures without a groan of embarrassment.

So we’re not going to waste time looking back.

There’s never been a more exciting time to be involved in the world of creative internet technology than today, right now.

So here’s to the next 14 years.