RADIO WAVES - News and gossip from the Radio world. 
Dave Winer: "Speaking of Pike, before Radio was called Radio it was called Pike. We had to change the name because there already was something called Pike. Too bad, it was a good name."
Visiting the Pike beta site was a fun memory jogger. At that time, I had just moved from Hawaii to the Bay area, ready to make my mark on the net. In Hawaii, I started up a company called Web Surf Hawaii and hosted Manila sites. I thought I had found the golden key in UserLand's Manila product and even taught some classes on how to get a site up and running using this ground breaking system. However, if you want to get ahead on the net, you can't live on an island, surrounded by so many distractions.
So, I moved to the mainland and that's when Pike came out. It took a while to wrap my head around, especially since one of the first real uses of Pike was to see who else was online, view their playlists, and share outlines. Kind of an odd assortment of things, really. We got server space on a server that was called, I believe, ourfavoritesongs.com and then I started to see the light, the thing that Radio would become for me, my own powerful publishing system, for very little cost. Little did I realize at the time that Pike would turn into Radio, one of my most used applications. And the main reason that I moved away from Manila. Oh, and I definitely wouldn't have imagined that I'd create a site like Radio: The Missing Manual someday.
