Welcome to Smithton.Net, the home of Smithton, IL on the World Wide Web!

This site is dedicated to the Village of Smithton. Have a local business and want a web page? Holding a garage sale and need to tell people? A special event you'd like to announce? Just need a place of your own for a personal blog?

If you're in Smithton, you're in the right place! You can do all the above and more!

Best of all, it's free! That's right! FREE!

Why?

Easy! Smithton is a great place to live! After moving here in 1999, my wife and I fell in love with this little village. Since then, many of our friends, family members - and their friends - have moved here! This site is my way of giving something back to the community that has treated us so well.

I hope you enjoy this site as much as I enjoy running it!

-- Scott Duensing
Jaeger Technologies

Jaeger (pronounced "yay-ger") Technologies is a small group of programmers and technicians dedicated to bringing affordable software, computer, and networking services to the masses. Whether you have two computers and simply want to play networked games, or you're a corporation with a thousand workstations in multiple locations, Jaeger Technologies can handle the job at a price that's affordable.

Just a few of the projects Jaeger Technologies technicians have been involved with:

• Website Design & Development
• Website Hosting
• Computer Repair
• Custom Computer Building
• Server Design, Implementation, and Administration
• Home Networking
• Corporate Networking (LANs over 300 systems in multiple locations)
• Custom Software Development
• Software Development for Retail Sale
• Embedded System and Software Development
• Multimedia Kiosk Design, Development, and Construction
• Internet Service Provider Development
• DVD and VHS Video Production/Conversion

Scott has been doing computer-related stuff since he was about eight years old. Starting with a little TI99/4a home computer he taught himself how to program and quickly outgrew the 4k of RAM and the cassette drive. His parents bought him an Apple //c for Christmas in 1984 and he's been stuck to a keyboad every since.

In addition to the Apple, Scott knows his way around almost every computer system ever made and actively collects, restores, and preserves classic hardware and software.

More important to Smithton.Net, Scott has been running an online service of some kind since 1988. He wrote his first BBS (or Bulliten Board System - a type of online community prior to the rise of the World Wide Web) from scratch to support his software development efforts. Once the system outgrew the Apple IIgs, it was moved to an IBM PC knock-off and run under a variety of systems (WWIV, VBBS, MajorBBS, and WorldGroup for the curious) until the internet explosion in the early 90s. Fortunately, WorldGroup supported web access as well as good old-fashioned dial-up and the service moved it's way onto the web without missing a beat.

Today, Scott continues to run the latest iteration of that service under the "Jaeger Technologies" banner. In 2005, Jaeger Technologies finally outgrew it's status as a hobby-gone-wild and became an actual business. In 2006, Scott (finally) launched a project he had wanted to create since 1999 - Smithton.Net!

And, like always, there's more on the way!