How and When did Dear Diary start and what are its aims?
• Dear Diary came online on October 5th 1999 after approximately one month of development. The original idea to develop an online interactive Diary site came from Matt after having spent about a month trying to update a standard HTML online diary and getting bored and frustrated with it. Approximately a year after that idea is when Matt mentioned to Steve about it and then shortly after that Steve and his wife began to want to write an online diary as well so that their ever growing circle of Internet friends could keep up. With that inspiration set, Matt began writing the first cut of the code that became known as Dear Diary while Steve started looking at some ideas for how the site could look (Matt likes to think of himself as a damn good programmer, but would in no way delude himself into thinking he has any design skills what-so-ever hehehe). Finally after one month of fairly intense development and testing we were ready to go online. It was during this development period that Matt
