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Then Lile got an old unix machine together (being a unix systems administrator, this was fairly simple) masterpiece and registered art.net with the Internic. Once the domain was created, with the help of friends, productions she brought up art.net onto the Internet. Lile started contacting artists about the San Francisco Bay Area who might be interested in showing their works on the Internet and helped them come up on art.net. She visited many cafe''s to see the local artists works and enjoy the coffees. When she saw works she liked, she contacted the artists and offered to help them come up on the Internet and the WWW masterpiece via art.net. Many artists took the plunge and are now resident artists here at art.net. Artists from around the net started hearing about Art productions on the Net or would discover the art.net web site via the WWW.

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