A Brief History of Time:

The Gotowerks was founded in the early 19th century by J. Benjamin Gotow. It began as a farm in rural ohio, selling Christmas trees and apples to the unsuspecting visitor. The picture at left shows the Gotow family farm around 1850. As the times progressed, the Gotowerks became more and more sophisticated. It became a pioneer in alternative fuels in 1908, as Ford rolled out the first Model-Ts. With a scientific breakthrough in 1920 came the legendary antigravity drive, shown at left. The Gotowerks quickly abandoned the "trees and apples" philosophy and marketed their technology and business solutions. Since then, the Gotowerks has only grown. In 1992 it launched three internet companies: Thinkless Technologies, LimeSearch, and Pigeon Innovations, which recently returned six figure profit margins.

Okay. So maybe not. I founded the Gotowerks in 2003 because I was bored. I love doing web design, and the "Just Another Neglected Brainchild" idea was just too good to pass up. The site got off to a running start with Unstoppable Progress, the hack my dad and I developed for the MacHax Best Hack Show in June. It won first place in the contest and was mentioned in MacWorld and MacAddict. The version we wrote for the show was extremely rough around the edges, and we decided to post version two here. At the time, the Gotowerks was only half finished. I posted what I had: a poorly written home page and a blurb about the hack. Unstoppable Progress was downloaded 7000 times in the first few weeks and I rushed to finish the site. It's still not completely done, but it's getting there!

The Gotowerks has become the trash heap of my imagination. The projects section is full of little apps I wrote over the weekends. Some of them are larger and better developed than others, and a few are full-fledged utilities. Whatever size they are, the same rules apply. Everything here at the Gotowerks is free and open-source. Take a look around. There's some neat stuff here!