@ingrid@everything.happens.horse
Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
MikePgh
If the name David Simonett rings a bell, I was his executive assistant when he was a dean at UCSB. drop me a DM if you want to talk. He was a fascinating guy. I learned a lot from him, none of it GIS-related, unfortunately.