The web has an ephemeral character. Sites pop up today and vanish tomorrow—straight into data nirvana. According to DER SPIEGEL (26/2018 "Vergessene Generation") the average lifetime of a site is about 100 days before it is either altered or deleted. We thought: why not add a little stability to this floating world? That’s what storytelling can do. Call it a Netpressum—because, let’s be honest, Innettum sounds way worse.

We’ve been online for more than 30 years now - and counting.

First release: August 1995 as the very first website of an architect's office in Switzerland ("Internet? What TF IS this??"). It was a time the SonntagsZeitung could still list all Swiss websites on just a handful of tabloid pages. There were only 23'500 sites online worldwide. Our lovingly self-coded baby was a plain html-version with anchors, featuring a guestbook - and—believe it or not—a web hit counter. (Seen one of those in the last 20 years?) If in doubt, check the Wayback Machine (http://web.archive.org), punch in the old URL, and travel back at least to 1999. Apart from the hard drive backups, we still keep a few floppy disks of that very first edition—though with no working drive left. Fun fact: we even submitted these floppies as our portfolio when invited to join the BSA. These guys were used to ponder over pig leather-bound glossy-printed streamline portfolios (thank you Tom W. for this inspiring and unforgettable heading ... and apologies for the intentional misquote) and were therefore not exactly blown away.

June 1998: Mayor redesign, introduction of frames

October 1999: Got own domain name. The original, rather clunky URL was "www.access.ch/private-users/mjauch"

January 2002: Hosting moved from access.ch (diax / sunrise respectively) to green.ch

January 2004: Complete redesign by 3DAtelier Michel Wüest, including flash animations

May 2006: Migrated hosting to nexlink (Linux Server)

July 2015: Almost 20 years later, MESCH (www.mesch.ch) gave the site a glow-up—new CI, responsive, and finally Flash-free. Thanks, Christian and Michi the radio guy! Hosting went back to green.ch.

September 2018: https-authentication added.

Simultaneously with the world wide Covid-19 crisis, the website was attacked by one of those omnipresent assholes on the net and got infected with a link to a phishing site (Cheers, internet trolls...). Migrated hosting away from green.ch.

Latest update: September 30th, 2025

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