The domain name registration became available for public not too long ago. The [.Com] domain just became available. Prior to that mostly we dealt with [.edu]. It was fairly easy to get your domain name as you want. The domain name war and business was unheard off. There was only one registrar for the domain, that is Network Solutions. To get Karatela.Com was quite easy.

The web-hosting was also becoming available. I remember there was a company out of Atlanta by the name of Web2010 offering unlimited web hosting accounts on the Unix system. This is where we had our first official website. I mainly used for creating my Dow alumni website and transferred the website from Emory University server to this domain. Dow Alumni Website was first created on the Emory University Servers in 1993, the first of any Pakistani Institutions website on the internet and first to be listed in the Yahoo. The Yahoo Website at that time was just a few pages of lists of Websites Directory started by these two young students from Stanford University.

After finishing the Internal Medicine residency I needed to get “research experience” to get into cardiology fellowship program. For this to happen I needed to convince the people in the Cardiology department of Emory University that I was seriously interested in full-time research. I contacted Dr. William Weintraub who at that time the was the director/incharge of Emory Cardiovascular Databank and Research. Probably the only cardiologist who knew more about the computer programming than anyone else in the country.

Dr. Weintraub was using Informix 4 gl on the Unix workstation and BMDP statistical software for its statistical calculations and and generation of data. He became my mentor and directed me into computer programming and database management.