This video, developed by Mediate.com CEO Colin Rule for Mediate.com’s 25th Anniversary Conference, recounts the founding of Mediate.com by John Helie and Jim Melamed on January 1, 1996. This was the first day that the new graphical Internet supported “.com” domains.
Eight years prior to this establishment of Mediate.com, beginning in 1988 with the Academy of Family Mediators, John and Jim worked together as part of the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) and the new “ConflictNet” to spread the word about online communications in the form of email and bulletin boards. This was back in the day of Compuserve and Prodigy, even before America Online.
We have in fact come a long way since digital characters slowly painted themselves across a monochrome monitor. Soon it was color and fonts, then the graphical multi-media internet, with images, audio, video, commerce, attachments, security, faster and faster speed, the cloud . . . and now AI. How far we have come!
John and Jim predicted that, some day, “every case would be an online case.” They turned out to be right.
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