A little about the Charles Oropallo writing this

There are numerous individuals on the planet named Charles Oropallo (shown to the left with his wife Susan Oropallo). That came as quite a surprise to this particular Charles Oropallo! Growing up, Charles had never found another Charles Oropallo.

Charles Oropallo grew up believing he was Irish, English and Italian. Interestingly, genetic testing has shown that he is more Irish than he had realized. Charles Oropallo’s father provided his Italian heritage. However, it turned out that Charles’s father contributed only 48% Italian ethnicity and as opposed to the 50% Italian as Charles had been led to believe.

This Charles is the Charles Oropallo from Peterborough, New Hampshire who will be supplying the tips in this site. That Charles Oropallo is the same Charles who was initially involved with the July 1998 founding of CharlesWorks, the web development company that’s also, coincidentally, located in Peterborough, NH.

More about this Charles Oropallo

In November 1977, this particular Charles Oropallo authored and implemented a Bulletin Board System (BBS). He called it called Access-80. The BBS operated on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I, Level II microcomputer. There were only a limited number of such systems online devoted to public use on the entire planet at that time.

Access-80 provided personal messaging for local computer enthusiasts. It originally went online from Charles’s residence on Ridge Road in East Greenbush, NY. Access-80 was a hobbyist endeavor Charles did while running Oropallo Construction & Electrical Contracting full time.

A 300 baud modem and home brewed auto answering device connected it to dial-up over phone lines. Relative speed and technological changes have been immense – today’s dial-up (if you can even find it at all) at its fastest speed is 53,000 bits per second compared to 300 then!

Access-80 was also concurrently placed online in Schenectady, NY. It was operated there by a friend of Charles’s who worked at Ellis Hospital.

In 1982, Charles moved from the Albany, NY area to April Drive in Nashua, NH, and so did Access-80. Charles’s original Nashua Access-80 setup is shown at http://Access-80.com.

Before long Access-80 was concurrently online in Londonderry, NH as well as Nashua, NH. Access-80 remained online until 1987.

The roots of Charles Oropallo’s CharlesWorks

Charles Oropallo founded CharlesWorks in June of 1998 in order to provide reliable and affordable hosting and web development solutions. During the initial stages of Charles’s work he was only providing Internet connectivity for several personal and organizational websites at very low speed.

Over time, Charles’s desire to provide reliable (as well as still being affordable) Internet (website development) solutions moved CharlesWorks into more commercially oriented markets. Despite focusing on business websites, Charles’s team still helps individuals get personal sites and blogs on the web.

Let the CharlesWorks team get you out here onto your own web site today! Email us at Websites@CharlesWorks.com or just visit http://CharlesWorks.net for an affordable solution coupled with the best customer service in the field.

CharlesWorks handles many top level domains for websites. The top level domains (TLD) refers to the tail end of a domain name – like .com, .net, .club, and many more. To get you started, http://CharlesWorks.Domains offers .biz, .com, .info, .name, .net, .org, and .us domain names with full privacy for only about $15.00 per year! Hundreds more specialty domains are available as well with varying price structures.

Go to http://CharlesWorks.Domains or call any of the friendly and helpful staff at CharlesWorks today at 603-924-9867 to see how easy it is for us to help you get started!

The Web Corner and the general web tips from Charles Oropallo

Charles Oropallo, CharlesWorks founder, from Peterborough NH had an idea long ago he developed into Charles Tips. Then Charles had an opportunity to put together a small article that would appear weekly in The Monadnock Shopper News.

The Monadnock Shopper News, much like CharlesWorks, is a truly local business in nearby Keene, NH. When referring to The Monadnock Shopper News as “truly local”, that means The Monadnock Shopper News is physically located in Keene, NH, The Monadnock Shopper News’s employees work in Keene, NH, and The Monadnock Shopper News does its own website hosting in Keene, NH. So all of the main aspects of The Monadnock Shopper News’s business are truly local.

Charles decided to call The Monadnock Shopper News’s series of articles The Web Corner. One might think of The Web Corner as just a little corner of Charles Oropallo’s web. In The Monadnock Shopper News, USMC veteran Charles Oropallo (owner and founder of CharlesWorks in Peterborough, NH, in 1998) deposits various tidbits of information for consumption later as needed by whomever. The goal of The Web Corner is to remain easy to read and understandable. Charles’s goal has always been to present short, easy reads that hopefully inspire web topic conversations among The Web Corner readers.

The Web Corner articles written by Charles Oropallo started appearing in the The Monadnock Shopper News as well as here on this site starting on October 3, 2018 and ran through March 27, 2019. Going forward they will continue to be appearing here on a weekly basis and perhaps intermittently in The Monadnock Shopper News.