If you’re reading this blog then you are already familiar with our website here at wbee.com. I like our site a lot. It’s still growing and is gonna keep getting better in the months to come. That’s because, in case you haven’t heard yet, the internet is the future. I know, I know, that sounds like some kind of fancy corporate speak but that’s what I’ve been told by the suits.

They say those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So as we move forward technologically here at WBEE let’s remember the good times and bad times we’ve had here at our favorite url. It’s amazing the things people can find in unpassword protected network folders in the workplace. Or so I’ve heard.

The year is 1996. The British Government announces that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka Mad Cow) has been likely transmitted to people, The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Braveheart winning Best Picture, Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31,683 packed Spartan Stadium to witness the historic first game, Bob Dole is nominated for President of the United States, and Jack Kemp for Vice President at the Republican National Convention, and WBEE enters the information super highway. Click on the pic to enlarge.

Three long years later radio’s Terry Clifford sees the potential of this new medium and asks if we could include such information as DJ bios, community events, artist information, pictures and even live audio of the station. Management laughs at Terry’s naive ideas. Why would people want to do that when they have radios in their car already they tell her. As a comprise the bosses allow Terry to publish the world wide web’s first wacky radio dj bio but don’t allow her to include a picture. Check it out below: (click to enlarge)

Y2K brought out both the best and worst in all of us. We survived the rumored technological crash but we came out as different people. Better people. WBEE management head honchos realized that if computers could indeed flip the calendar onto a new millennium they to could host a page that contained information such as DJ bios, community events, artist information, pictures and even live audio of the station. What a brilliant idea. Sometimes tragedy can turn to triumph. Welcome Y2BEE: (click to enlarge)

Nothing on the site changed really until 2004. I mean nothing. Maybe this internets thing is gonna fail the suits kept telling T-Bird. But then came something that changed wbee.com forever and to this day is still the most visited page on the site. Newman got his own page. Check it out:

Haha. That’s funny. So funny that Newman to this day hasn’t changed it.

But that’s ok to recycle things, right? Just ask Haus’ 1984 golf shirt as seen below in 2004 that he still rocks out on the course to this day.

T-Bird’s right. This internet is gonna stick around for a while. Thanks for surfing our cove.