Brigitte is a French expatriate that loves her country,
to the point she always spoke her language with children around her
even though some had difficulties to understand.
thus giving them the chance to pick up some "Français".
When a woman is very glamorous
and she knows to be cool with little children
it can happen that one day this results
in a surprise:
the registration of her name
as a dot com
internet domain ...
This is what happened at the turn of the century
16-01-2000 January in the heart of the French capital
at Cremerie de Paris
at the time an avant-garde internet cafe.
What is kind of unusual is that the registration of Brigitte's dot com
did not really turn into a personal website
but into an invention
...
Maybe the energy linked to the webcafe
where the brigittevonboch.com
domain was registered
also contributed ...
A long long time ago, 1671 to 1738
the Hotel de Villeroy, home of the webcafe
was the seat of the Royal French Postal Services.
Looking through the windows you can still see the water fountains
for the Postal horses carrying letters send from Paris
during the times of King Louis XIV.
Lets go back to Brigitte
At the turn of the century the cafe was a used by Americans
travelling through Paris.
They happened to come by as Hotels were not yet connected.
About 95% of the webcafe visitors were Americans.
Times were a little tough as there were not enough clients
to the point the electricity came by
every 2, 3 months to cut off power.
Having registered Brigitte's name as a dot com
a project needed to be found ...
As Brigitte collected Canary Birds,
a website about Canaries was a first option.
Brigitte also loves flowers
she grows them herself
and she know things about them
nobody else knows.
Brigitte is surrounded by legends and fairytales.
One of the legends says that the Italian car designer Enzo Ferrari
whom she met when she was a very young woman
was so fascinated by her
he desgned a special car,
the Ferrari
S1 Scaglietti Spyder
It is probably the only car that was produced only once ...
Other legends say that her great grandfather
was implicated in the construction of the Statue of Liberty
and later the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
The visitors of the webcafe loved
the stories
and encouraged us to work on the Brigitte von Boch.com project ...
Always the same comment
"your aunt sounds so glamorous,
you need to make a cool website"
The next week we met someone
we had already met the years before.
He lived in Los Angeles and enjoyed coming to Paris every year.
Only we had not realised who he was
this was the secret
how it was possible he became our friend
....
Our friend had a global view.
His influence resulted in the final project,
no Canaries, no Flowers
but something more global
Nine days later BrigittevonBoch.com
resulted in another domain
Phone Book of the World.com
Registering a new, available
dot com domain
is a question of a couple or dollars
nothing more ...
The beginning of a new adventure
that continues it's path ...
