Some say that the innocence of
those early years (1997-1999) at Geo Cities is lost. A time in which the internet was young and full of eager men, women and children establishing web pages. Who believed that the little
people would have a viable presence and not let this new medium fall into the hands of the "establishment."
But one idea which did not loose its appeal was that of helping those less fortunate, or our disABLED. Although the Heartland Disability Compliance Alliance (HDCA) is now but a handful of its high mark of 1,408 members, those who remain, those who would join and those who remember Heartland have a deep feeling of pride in what has been accomplished. Perhaps in some small way those early pioneers who did not possess the HTML authoring tools nor validators of today, really led the way.
So the HDCA is now DCA, but the "heart" has really not been dropped. Please do consider joining our DCA Ring Surf group. Any web site which meets our web ring requirements may apply for inclusion in the DCA web ring and be admitted upon review and proper display of the web ring fragment. Those sites not wishing to display the web ring fragment, but espousing our interests are considered "Friends of DCA" and will be listed under friends.
The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist suicide attacks by Islamic extremists on that date upon the United States of America. This horrific massacre forever changed the United States of America.
In some way 9/11 also changed our innocence, online communities, the way we present our thoughts or ideas on the internet, brought on a profusion of spammers, scam artists, copyright infringers, unsupported news and a host of other less than ethical practices.
Whether we will return to helping our disABLED through involvement in online activities such as the Disability Compliance Alliance, in greater numbers than at the height of Heartland Disability Compliance Alliance (HDCA) will be a matter left to historians in future years.
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