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Company History
March 1993
FreeRun Technologies is founded.

June 1994
FreeRun Technologies is incorporated.

July 1994
Demo software ready, first potential clients shown Regional Web site concept (Virtual Visit)

October 1994
Developed custom, user-access monitoring statistics program count by page NOT by "hit". Calculates average time spent reading a page, tracks user path through website, displays english names as well as file names.

November 1994
FreeRun goes live on the WWW with Napa Valley Virtual Visit with 17 Napa Valley clients and websites.

April 1995
Clients ready to sell wine on-line. FreeRun writes browser aware "store" software WITH filtering that runs on Netscape's Commerce server to handle SSL encrypted transactions.

June 1995
FreeRun uploads digital images real time from the Napa Valley Wine Auction to the Internet. Concept heavily copied at next years wine auction.

July 1995
Sonoma County Virtual Visit launched.

September 1995 
Napa Valley Virtual Visit Homepage implements more specific browser aware software.

October 1995
Nominated for GNN's "Best of the Net" in the professional Food and Wine category.

November 1995
Virtual hosting implemented and supported on FreeRun equipment.

December 1995
PC Computing's 1001 Best Internet Sites. One of only sixteen US travel sites selected.

January 1996
Magellan 4 STAR rating (their top rating).

February 1996
Clients with NO knowledge of HTML can self-maintain pages with tools provided by FreeRun. These pages can even be archived automatically.

May 1996
Point Top 5% award.

June 1996
Hired to implement a 400 page on the fly website with custom stats tracking.

July 1996
Strategic alliance signed to design and implement the wine country section of AOL's Digital City, San Francisco. FreeRun clients have significantly increased on-line exposure.

January 1997
Awarded Netguide's Platinum site award.

May 1997
First Italian Winery client on-line Castello Banfi

July 1997
Launched wine/winery focused site drinkwine.com

August 1997
Began designing site automation and tracking applications for hi-tech firms. Most well known client is Silicon Graphics.

September 1997
Began design of fully automated, real time, financial information distribution system.

March 1998
Monterey site launched. Pages are template/database driven.

December 1999 
Freerun Technologies Incorporated site redesigned.

October 2000 
NapaValley.com redesign. Pages template/db driven. Featured clients have capability of updating their listings information.

October 2000 
Mendocino site launched.

November 2000 
Shopping Cart e-commerce solution focused on specific issues of wine sales including reciprocal state sales/shipping and age limitations.

December 2000 
XML/XSL and JAVA based site, EatDrinkDine.com, launched

January 2001 
Virtual Survey for Wine Industry Symposium

February 2001 
Santa Barbara site launched.

June 2001 
FreeRun designs selected in the Best of the North Bay Media Competition of the North Bay Multimedia Association:
  • 1st Place for Web Design- Business for the Stags Leap Winery site,
  • Honorable Mention for Sound & Music- Professional for the San Telmo site audio
  • July 2001 
    EatDrinkDine.com featured in Yahoo!'s Picks of the Week.

    October 2001 
    Freerun Technologies moves production servers to AT&T. AT&T is consistently rated as the top performing transit ISP (in reachability, packet loss and average latency)