After 20 years working with computers and 10 years putting Web pages on the Internet, I finally got around to making my first eBay purchase. My first purchase on eBay helped end a five year search for a 1948 football card of Ray Evans while he was quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ray Evans not only was an NFL quarterback, but he also the University of Kansas' first All-American in both football and basketball.
Why did I want this football card of Ray Evans? Well besides the fact that he was a great athlete he was also my great Uncle. For the past five years I've searched the Internet looking for this card and ironically it showed up three weeks ago on eBay. The auction ended just in time for me to give the card to his niece for a birthday present.
To my surprise no one in the family knew that this card ever existed. I cannot help but wonder how many things we let slip away through the passage of time before we had the Internet. Suddenly legends are able to live on a lot longer before slipping away in the history books. This is the kind of stuff that makes me proud to be in the field of information technology