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!