I graduated from Piper High School in 1995. I learned HTML in the fall of 1996. When I wanted to sit down and write a web page, I didn't want to do one of those cheesy "look at this picture of my dog" pages. I wanted to have some meaningful share in the Internet. I wanted a page that would be useful for me, but also useful for other people.

Then one day I got an email from a friend of mine (my bean) concerning some news at Piper. She had sent it to dozens of people that graduated with me, and I started to wondering what it would be like if I were to lose touch with all of these people! I started practicing my HTML skills by making a page full of "mailto" links, using the addresses I saw in her email. My page got more and more elaborate, and then I found a tool on Tripod that would let me put a form on my page. Now that was the clincher. I learned how to code a form in HTML, and I put up my first web pages.

I scoured the Internet search engines for absolutely anything I could find that related to Piper High School, and I arranged it in a table. I started searching the Internet's "white pages" services. If they had an advanced search where I could look specifically for Piper High School graduates, I took each and every Piper grad and put them on my page. I assembled all the Piper information I could find!

I tried promoting it in the search engines, but it hasn't worked. If you go to Yahoo or AltaVista and search for Piper High School, you'll get information on the Adult Community School, on the radio station, and some other things, but you mostly get information having to do with airplanes. For some reason, my page doesn't show up in those search engines. I don't know why.

Well, that's my story. I'm a pretty open person. If you want to know anything else about who I am, I'll probably tell you. Enjoy your visit!

--Jennifer Gaudette, Piper High School Class of 1995