User:JoyfulCamper/sandbox/JoyfulCamper

Welcome!
Hello! My name is Steven Sande and this is my user page. Pretty much everyone calls me Steve. I was born on September 22, 1957, in Auburn, Washington. My parents moved to Commerce City, Colorado in 1963, then to a house in Aurora, Colorado. There I attended Elkhart Elementary School, East Junior High (now East Middle School), and graduated in 1974 from Wiliiam C. Hinkley High School. At that point, I went on to the University of Colorado at Boulder where I graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering in 1978. I began working for Public Service Company of Colorado that same year in the Gas Department.

In 1979 I married Barbara Mackinder, and we both started work on Master of Business Administration degrees at the University of Colorado Denver. Those degrees were conferred in 1983. Since 1984, Barbara and I have lived in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

I have been writing online since 1986, having run a bulletin board system called MAGIC (Mac And GS Information Center) from 1986 until 1994. In 1994, I started my first news website called PDAntic.com dealing with Personal Digital Assistants such as the Apple Newton MessagePad, Palm Pilot, Pocket PC, and Windows Mobile devices.

I also created several other websites of little or no importance before landing my first big writing gig with The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), which was a part of Weblogs, Inc. before being sold to AOL. At TUAW, I contributed 5,937 articles, podcasts, vlogs, you name it. However, TUAW was shut down on February 3, 2015 despite being one of the most successful of the Weblogs, Inc. properties.

The following week, on February 9, 2015, Apple World Today was launched. I was the founder and publisher of Apple World Today until July 1, 2021 when Dennis Sellers became the publisher and editor and chief.

Contacting Me
I'm on Facebook as StevenSande, and that's as good a way of contacting me as anything.

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