User:Mikedippel

Mike Dippel was born on June 23, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan. After being laid off in 1979 from the City of Detroit, he moved to the Fort Lauderdale, Florida area, where he worked for the city of Fort Lauderdale until retiring in 2002.

During his years in Florida, he began his love for computers by starting a computer bulletin board system (BBS) in 1986 known as the Hobby Line! BBS. He later began to offer dial-up internet access locally and changed the name to The Hobby Line Internet with the domain name of www.hobbyline.com

After designing websites for a number of customers, and realizing that those sites could achieve higher rankings after being submitted to assorted search engines and Directories, he decided to create his own directory, www.pembrokepinesfla.com which listed business in the city of Pembroke Pines, Florida. This lead to the creation of a total of 21 assorted niche and general directory websites.