Anchordudes VPN FAQ Website

How did we come to be known as the AnchorDudes? Well...

We all grew up in a small coastal town in the Florida panhandle, and while our classmates were into sailing and water-skiing, we were more interested in the emerging technology of the Internet.  Effectively, we were "Anchored" to our PC's, while our peers were out playing in the sun.  OK, so we were geeks.

Our friends, enemies, and even teachers picked up on the term "Anchor Dudes" and it just stuck.

Now we're all in the working world, and we think back to all those "cool" kids from high school like "Jonathon" the rich kid with the cigarette boat who had it all in high-school.  Now he's a vo-tech drop out working at Wal-Mart, and we're the ones with the interesting lives.  Revenge is sweet.

Bruce is a successful media mogul.  He made some good friends in the early days of hip-hop, and before long he had his own record label.  Bruce is pretty opinionated, and goes against the flow in the industry.  Thankfully, Bruce sees the future of the media industry the same way the rest of us do, so we all get along fine.  

Clark was promoted from reporter to editor for a national newspaper.  You've probably seen it at the supermarket.  In the checkout lane. He's the guy who always had the best ghost stories when we were all sitting around at 4 AM working on our 20th cup of coffee.  

Peter travels all around the world taking photographs.  Most of his work is in European magazines.   Peter is a real hoot.  When Quake II first came out, we were all playing a deathmatch game, and Peter shows up with these new skins you wouldn't believe from his latest model photo shoot.  No matter what you may have heard, there are some amazing looking British women on that little island.  

Together, we are the AnchorDudes.

OK, Seriously now -

We're just guys who grew up with computers in the days before the Internet, back with the old "Bitnet" and Fido and other early online communications tools.  Data connections were dial up direct to a server, so data security wasn't much of an issue.  Web hosting was something only big, rich companies with huge marketing departments could afford - not something every Tom, Dick and Harry, as well as their mothers, could set up and run.  Usenet preceded all the web forums we have now and was the best way to stay on top of emerging trends in many fields.

We've been part of these industries as they've grown over the years and have been sharing our knowledge with friends and family.  Nearly 10 years ago we started publishing reviews of Usenet servers, and with time we have developed enough content about hosting, remote data storage, and VPN/Proxy Server systems that we decided we should put up some pages on those topics as well.

To reach the Anchordudes, follow this link to the contact page.