I send many thanks for your support
in keeping silkworth.net online!

Hello my fellow AAHistoryLovers! First let me express my gratitude to all of you who emailed me in support of silkworth.net. As most of you know, I have been unable to work for over 10 months due to disability reasons. Its been a rough year for me. But I am confident that the future will be much brighter for me than the present.

My name is Jim Myers, the creator and owner of silkworth.net. A little history for you. It was the year 2000 and I was introduced to computers by my mother. She was on her way to Canada and she showed me how to use ICQ to communicate with each other while she was in Canada - one of the largest communications network on the internet. It was probably about 6 months later, I became bored with ICQ and decided I was going to teach myself how to build websites.

It was rough at first and my first attempt was building a site about UFO's. That didn't last long. Then while searching the internet about AA related stuff, I ran accross Mitchell K's website. I became very interested in AA history right then and set out to build a website about AA stuff. I had to study the code of many websites and learned at a rapid rate.

Oh, before I forget, I took the suggestion of those who said open a Pay Pal account so anyone who wishes to help support silkworth.net can. Just click on the button above and you will be taken to the Pay Pal page where you can help get silkworth.net back online and keep it online.

OK, where was I? At first, silkworth.net took on many forms - completely different than it is today. Then I started learning other things about building websites. For instance, Is silkworth.net going to look the same in the 4 main browsers, that most people don't want to hear music on the pages. So, I started making changes to the site for simplicity reasons till silkworth.net evolved to where it is today.

I never intended silkworth.net to grow as large as it is today (almost 2 gigabites). I also never expected the site to become so busy (over a million hits per month). I got a email one day not to long ago from doteasy.com where silkworth.net is hosted. They told me I had to control the bandwith, which is unlimited, and a few other things. They said my site was the cause of all there servers shutting down.

Well, I think I have said enough for now. Again, I would just like to say thank you and I am very greatful to you all for your help.

Yours in Service
Ever Greatful
Jim Myers