Saturday, July 25, 2020

the internet's first shareholder proxy voting system

Back in the mid-90s I was tasked with making "vote-by-net.com", the Internet's first Shareholder Proxy Voting system.


It even got a brief mention on the first page of the Wall Street Journal! (I'll make a scan if I run across the sheet again.) 

It was a bunch of Perl scripts, with a bit of JS flavoring. Had some weird bits like translating into IBM's old punchcard-based encoding EBCDIC as well.

Cleaning up old files I ran into this set of handoff documents (including servers and directories and passwords, oh my - but long since defunct.) 

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