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A concise history of this web site:

June 21st, 2008
Swa Frantzen is awarded the Will Rogers Award in Litchfield, IL. The inscription on the award is "You not only have the oldest web site on the internet but your contribution in promoting the road internationally is unequaled".
July 2001
The site migrates to it's current URL. The URL provided by Netvision continues to forward it till 2008, at which point the parent domain was lost.
March 6th, 1997
Webby Awards nomination The site is nominated for the very first webby awards. The ceremony was broadcast on TV in the US and rerun on the NBC network around the world.
August 2nd, 1996
The site was awarded a Times Pick by the Los Angeles Times.
January 1996
In order to avoid problems with the continued growing usage of the site, the site migrated to a new home. A home provided at a spin-off of the university in a company named Netvision (renamed and sold a few times since then, now part of Verizon Business). During it's stay at Netvision the site was sponsored by Silicon Graphics and Securitywatch.com to pay for its hosting costs.
October 1994
Swa Frantzen and his wife travel down Route 66 for their first time using the web site's turn-by-turn description as their guide. After their return home, they decide to keep the web site running in a Usenet tradition to provide information to those who ask after you solved the question by getting help from the others.
July 1994
The first version of this web site was published. During the first week it received 18 hits. It was built on research and information from various places all over the then emerging Internet. In 1994 The Internet connected universities and huge companies and the "web" was still called the world wide web and it was just starting to have some content. The original URL still exists and still forwards you to the current site. Something I'm rather proud of.
1993
Swa Frantzen and his wife decide to take a trip down Route 66. But cannot find it on contemporary maps. After digging in on a Rand McNally Road atlas Swa does find some roads with the mythical number but it are short stretches of state roads not connected any longer.

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