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The Internet — It May Catch On
Tacoma website builder SiteCrafting, founded in the early days
of the web, is still helping people navigate the rough-and-tumble
online world.
Jason Hagey
SiteCrafting, one of the Northwest’s leading web design firms, started out as a side project for
Brian Forth, an elementary school teacher who wanted to help students learn about the web.
In 1995, when some educators were still debating
whether students should be allowed to use the
Internet, a young teacher at St. Charles Borromeo
School in Tacoma assembled a group of fifth-graders
to show the grownups the way forward.
The “Techsperts,” a