Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!
@ingrid Oh geez, I think some of the people I worked with died, but we were doing web accessible maps of county land use in 1997(I think), the ISP I worked with in concert with a weird little non profit ("Southwest Data Center") and Ouray County, Colorado. I might be able to scare up some contacts if I shake my memory hard enough.