Welcome to Humboldt Online!

Humboldt Online is currently a collection of blogs and other projects I am working on at the moment. Many of them deal with the area I live in near Eureka. Eureka, California is the capital of Humboldt County, situated approximately 250 miles North of San Francisco on the Northern California coast.

Humboldt Online is produced using WordPress MU publishing software and is hosted here locally. Our servers run on a combination of free software. This includes WordPress MU, the Apache web server, Ubuntu Linux Server, MySQL and a number of other GNU and free software programs. No commercial software is being used and no animals were harmed in the production of this website. :-)

William Van Hefner
President/CEO
Vantek Communications, Inc.

I began my career in radio and electronics. I started out repairing radios, mostly early AM radios, shortwave and ham transcievers. I obtained my amateur radio license (KB6VWL) in 1988, and have since talked to thousands of people all over the world.

In the early 90’s I turned my interest to computers and data communications. I ran a local computer bulletin board in the days before the Internet was in wide use and was a moderator on General Electric’s online service GEnie. I began building and repairing computers around that time and got into designing and building interactive voicemail (IVR) systems, which bridged an information service gap for those who didn’t own computers at the time.

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Welcome to Humboldt Online!

Humboldt Online is currently a collection of blogs and other projects I am working on at the moment. Many of them deal with the area I live in near Eureka. Eureka, California is the capital of Humboldt County, situated approximately 250 miles North of San Francisco on the Northern California coast.

Humboldt Online is produced using WordPress MU publishing software and is hosted here locally. Our servers run on a combination of free software. This includes WordPress MU, the Apache web server, Ubuntu Linux Server, MySQL and a number of other GNU and free software programs. No commercial software is being used and no animals were harmed in the production of this website. :-)

William Van Hefner
President/CEO
Vantek Communications, Inc.