Communications between the Comoros and New York, by 1995, were now by fax between official parties- no longer telex, but among the coelacanth players written letters persisted for a few more years. I heard from Hans that Mombassa had been trying to sell fish that didn't make it in the resus on the side. Then from Mombassa that he needed more money. And from Hans, that the coelacanth population had declined in their 1994 count. That was a serious issue that would change my approach to our project.

         I needed to raise money. Diana and I attended a seminar in Philadelphia, organized by the Explorers Club chapter there, on fundraising for projects. The one thing that we took away was that you needed a presence on the world wide web. In other words, a website. I had had a computer since the early 1980's and now we were even doing video editing with computers using the Newtek Video Toaster- the first semi pro digital editor. In fact, I was running a business renting out this euipment from a ground floor room. But I had never been online. I bought a product called "Internet in a Box" and construted the first online coelacanth web site in 1996.

     The question was what to call the new site. The domain name coelacanth.com was taken by an engineering firm. I was also under the impression that the name should be easy to spell so that people could enter it in their browser. (Little did I know about search engines at that time!) I coined the name "dinofish," embarrassed about its unscientific sound and expecting to get slammed again by the scientific community. But I needn't have worried. The term "dinofish" and the tag line I came up with, "The Fish out of Time." went on to be plagerized and used without accreditation by all and sundry- scientists, writers, and even the National Geographic. Meanwhile, passages from the website began appearing all over the web, which we discoverd after registering with yahoo and other early search engines. Then, when I went to use "dinofish" as a username for other applications, I would find it had already been taken, but not by me!