Michaela MerzEmergency Service
In 20 years of computer hacking, I have developed so many tools and applications, I can't really count them all. From games on the ZX81 to multi-threaded number-crunching apps on a Unix cluster, I have had my fun with almost anything with a keyboard. And it is still itching :)

Here are a few of my more famous developments. Want to learn more about my management-skills? Feel free to Contact me.

1990-1994
germany.net: I 'invented' 'Web 2.0' and developed a complete online environment with inter-communications tools, web-based email, chat, file sharing [Read more ...].

mtalk: The first? VOIP (Voice Over IP) program. Bandwiths were very limited, so it was kind of a walky-talky thing. Worked quiet well though. It was developed as free, open source software for Linux.

1994-1997
Ad-Breaks: germany.net was the first 'advertisement' sponsored system in Germany. I had to come up with new ideas to 'sell' advertising to our users. So I took a usual form of TV-advertising and 'translated' it into webvertising: Adbreaks. Since the users had to use our proxy, I injected adbreaks even while they were surfing on other websites. germany.net gave them the Internet for free. So users didn't complain too much about this new invention.

Payment system: The germany.net online service also offered one of the first web-based 'pay' services. I developed a payment system that could be used to 'pay as you go'. We sold software, access to news, databases and quite a lot more.

1997-1999
Multiple: With climbing user-numbers on our germany.net service (> 600,000 in 1999) I had less and less time to concentrate on the development of the system. However, I managed to dedicate 2 or 3 hours of my 16 hours day to developing or enhancing the system. Among other things, I developed a load balancer to share the access-requests among several servers, I integrated a shopping system and an interface to a pager service. I sold my interest in 1999 and left germany.net
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German Privacy Foundation Open Source Business Foundation

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