About Us
As part of an ongoing conversation between a few friends, <mitayai> (aka William Rowe and 'Mit'), registered dreaming.org in the spring of 1995 while he worked at an ISP called Internex Online in Toronto, Canada.
After he left Internex, he ran servers out of his house and nourished a self-help internet community called 'the dreaming collective'
Later, dreaming.org grew as a free email service for the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (aka 'AEC') industry.
Dreaming.org absorbed and merged and/or hosted a few other small internet communities, and became a free shell account provider.
It also hosted mirrors of FreeBSD, and provided DNS for the ca.freeebsd.org subdomain.
At one time, dreaming.org even delegated the subdomain is.dreaming.org to DynDNS for public use.
Near the turn of the century Mit stepped away to prevent conflicts of interest when he joined an internet consulting firm which also owned an ISP, and dreaming.org incorporated as the non-profit corporation 'The Dreaming Electronic Community Network, Inc'.
As time moved on, the Internet changed and the niche that dreaming.org filled became more generally accessible.
Interest waned and the corporation eventually performed an orderly shutdown and reverted the domain name back to Mit's ownership.
He maintains the few handfuls of active email accounts, websites and minecraft servers still in use.
When last he was asked to part with the domain for a fistful of cash, he rolled his eyes, shook his head and wandered off mumbling about 'tea' and 'china'.
For a timeline, visit the wayback machine
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