This will mean something only to a very few of you, but a very special (and long forgotten) friend has passed on. I'm speaking, of course, of WebStar. WebStar was one of the very first Web servers, and it worked (amazingly well) on Macintosh computers back in the late 1990s.

Ten years ago, when we launched ZATZ, we launched it running WebStar on an old iMac, of all things -- and that iMac and WebStar took the hits like a champ. It stood up to millions upon millions upon millions of hits. We were asked, back then, about just how big our data center was to hand all the traffic we were getting and we were almost embarrassed to point to the one, lone, greenish iMac and say "That's it."

Of course, we long ago moved off of WebStar about the time we moved off Macs. We hosted on Apache, then Frontier, then our own ZENPRESS server, which works with Frontier and Apache. And WebStar went the way of history. It first moved from StarNine, its original publisher, then to 4D (that old Mac database company), and finally, quietly, to a company called <A HREF="http://www.kerio.com">Kerio</A>.

This week, WebStar reached the end of its life. Kerio has discontinued it and support for WebStar ends in 2009. We understand why -- WebStar was a very old product and by the time we moved off of it, old age had begun to set in. But like your first girl or your first car, we'll remember WebStar. It brung us to the dance and it brung us back home.

WebStar is dead now, but it'll live on in our memories. Thanks WebStar. Thanks for everything.