I started working on computers at the age of 10. Our first home computer was a Commodore 64. On the Commodore 64 I designed small programs using Assembly Language, but mostly played Pole Position and fixed the game controller when it broke.

As time went on I experimented with other types of computers. I broke many by taking them apart trying to figure out how they worked. I always wanted to take it apart and make it run better, but I was lucky if I got it back together with all its original parts.

After reaching high school, I purchased my first lap-top computer. It was a Compaq, with a 286 processor, Gray-scale screen, and a battery that could start a car in the coldest of winter. I ran Windows for Workgroups and thought I was on the right road to becoming the next Bill Gates. Until one day when I decided to take it apart to make it run better. I spent the next 3 months trying to talk my parents into buying me another computer since the lap-top was out of commission.

Finally, I talked my parents into buying me a new computer, and to their surprise I bought the new computer part by part. With the help of a local friend named Lucy I assembled it, and believe it or not it worked. I think Lucy had a hand in the thing actually working right, but I turned the screws and plug everything up. I remember it was a 486DX2 66 processor and it had 8 Meg or ram, 350 Meg hard drive, dual speed CD-Rom, and a 15” .28 monitor. Man was I in heaven.

My father had never been into computers that much. He owned a plant nursery and computers weren't really needed in that line of business at that time. He bragged about it anyway. He would tell customers, friends, and family that we had the fastest computer in town. 2 weeks later I had to break the news to him that the day after we bought ours, someone else probably had one faster.

Well, I graduated high school with that computer and took it to college with me. By this time it was about 4 years old and wouldn't run any new software on the shelves. It was a big disappointment to my father. I tried to explain to him that it was 4 years old and wasn't able to run the current software. He just kept telling me about his sneakers that he had bought on the honey moon with my step-mother 18 years ago and they still looked new. Not in style, but they did look pretty good. K-mart Traxx must have been a tuff sneaker. Well back to telling about me.

I got burned out on computers while I was in college at Middle Tennessee State University . I helped friends fix their computers, built and repaired computers for extra money, on computers all day in classes, and worked at an antique store in the evening. Believe it or not I worked on a computer there also. I put the entire antique store on a computer system to help them manage their inventory, clients, consigners, and customers.

After college I went back to part of my roots and went to work on a Golf Course. It wasn't long there until I was back on the computer managing irrigation systems, repairing circuit boards, and designing software to keep up with the amount of water being applied to the course.

Well, I haven't made a long story short because for some reason it just keeps getting longer.

At the age of twenty one I met my wife. I had dated a lot, but never stayed in a relationship long. Weirdest thing kept happening; the darn phone company kept changing phone numbers of the girls I went out with after the first date. Made it a little hard to track them down, but I did. But the weirdest thing was that I would go to their house and the even the house would be gone. Aliens I guess. I am just kidding. I was just checking to see if you were still paying attention or not.

Jump to 1999 and the threat of computers shutting down for good. That was a memorable time that anyone above the legal drinking age might remember or might not. I started getting more into designing websites. I had tinkered with it in high school, but more along the lines of Bulletin Boards. I had built a few sites while in college. Some never got published to the internet, some should have never been built, and some just weren't appropriate for public viewing. Now back to 1999. I purchased Macromedia Dreamweaver, and started creating sites for anything I could come up with. With the year 2000 approaching I was taking a risk by spending time honing my web design skills. Why would I do that when computers wouldn't even work after the new year 2000.

In March of 2000 I married my wife and in December came the birth of my son James Enman Herbison.

In May of 2001 my wife, my son, and I packed up and moved to Puerto Peñasco , Mexico to help build my father-in-law's company and website. While there I met a lot of new people and created a lot of new sites.

In October of 2003, I moved the family back to my hometown of Dickson , Tennessee to be closer to family and friends. Started a computer store and didn't have the time to continue building sites, building computers and spending time with the family so we closed the store.

In September of 2006, I moved the family to Rosarito Beach , Mexico . Since then I have been building sites for a variety of large companies, maintaining and building sites for past clients and enjoying our ocean view.

I will continue to work with computers, websites, and continue to hone my skills. Look forward to working with new clients and I am always happy to work with the clients that I have now.

Thank you,
Joshua E. Herbison