History of a Fastener Website

January 25

00:00 2011

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How Sherex went online in 1992

New Sherex site

Before most people had ever even logged onto the World Wide Web, Sherex Fastening Solutions had a presence online.

“In 1996, long before most companies knew what the ‘www’ was, Sherex hosted its first website,” Sherex president Andrew Johnson recalled.

John Krikke, the Sherex IT specialist, “was always reading about the latest and greatest tech news,” then-controller Johnson explained to GlobalFastenerNews.com. “One day he came to me and told me about the World Wide Web that was starting up. He wanted to look into it more.”

Johnson gave Krikke the “go ahead.”

“There were initial problems,” Johnson noted. “We had no web protocol, no easy way to even register our name and no way to navigate a website.”

Krikke learned the process and “we were up and running with a very rudimentary website that only had a few pages.”

“John and I still joke what idiots we were, if we had a little more foresight we would have registered names and sold them later,” Johnson muses today.

Within a year it became easier to register names, as Netscape began widespread use as a browser and computer programs were developed.

“It still took us a couple years to get our catalogue on the web,” Johnson noted. Krikke eventually found an earlier version of today’s PDF to put the Sherex catalogue information into and post online.

Sherex, a manufacturer and distributor of blind rivet nuts, brass inserts and other specialty fastening products, recently redesigned it website: Sherex.com.

For more fastener Internet development click on Fastener History section:

1996 FIN – What is a Web Site Home Page?

1996 FIN: Fastener Firms Start Marketing on the Internet

1998 FIN – Electronic Commerce is Catching On

1999 FIN – Nissen Website Offers Fastener Buyers Negotiation Power