In 2001, Wild Dingo began as a marketing-communications consulting business and evolved into Web design and programming. Over the years, I posted a few stories about the founder, Maggie, a Dingo-Shepherd mix. Full of sass, Maggie clearly had her own code of ethics so she was the perfect leader for a home-based small business. She was officious, demanding and barked daily orders. Maggie knew she didn’t have good customer service skills, so she hired lovable and unemployed, Moosh for the job. Living and working with Maggie became a discovery of life lessons for happiness. Loud and seemingly obnoxious, Maggie often claimed, “I’m not evil. I’m just misunderstood.”
After losing Maggie in 2007, I rescued two dogs in 2008 (Loki and Juno) and continued to publish stories about them to carry on Maggie’s legacy and mission—to live life adventurously and get outdoors every day. We did just that, with a three year adventure and hiking in Switzerland. We parted ways with Juno in 2020 just before Covid and then with Loki in 2022. We hired two new employees, Freyja and Ransom to carry on the Wild Dingo adventures, every day.
In the old days of the World Wide Web (circa 2002), Wild Dingo’s website was consistently blocked by big corporations. The word “wild” suggested adult content.
The only “porn” you’ll see on Wild Dingo is this saucy minx right here who enjoyed flashing her sexy jodhpurs. She may have been shameless, but she’s always fully-flooffed and never baring-all.
Back then, Google didn’t exist, if you can imagine that. Before the browser wars began, Yahoo was the main search engine and there wasn’t any Search Engine Optimization at the time. Corporate IT departments had no algorithms of their own to crawl the web in order to determine if a site’s content was inappropriate for the office. Since companies didn’t want employees surfing naughty web sites on their dime, they simply blacklisted any URLs with naughty-sounding names for the office environment and “Wild Dingo” fell right into their poorly defined algorithms. Mr. Wild Dingo eventually had to request the IT department allow this site through the corporate firewalls so he could visit with his fur-family whenever he needed a distraction. Can you imagine how that conversation must have gone?
“No, it’s not a porn web site. This really is my wife’s work web site. No, the dogs do not write the code or the blog posts.”
Today, the web has grown up. Search engines and good SEO practices saved the day to help level the playing field for small businesses. This site has been crawled enough to know that the content on it is harmless distraction.
In the old days of the World Wide Web (circa 2002), Wild Dingo's website was consistently blocked by big corporations. The word "wild" suggested adult content. The only "porn" you'll see on Wild Dingo is this saucy minx right here who enjoyed flashing her sexy jodhpurs. She may have been shameless, but she's always fully-flooffed and never baring-all.
Back then, Google didn't exist, if you can imagine that. Before the browser wars began, Yahoo was the main search engine and there wasn't any Search Engine Optimization at the time. Corporate IT departments had no algorithms of their own to crawl the web in order to determine if a site's content was inappropriate for the office. Since companies didn't want employees surfing naughty web sites on their dime, they simply blacklisted any URLs with naughty-sounding names for the office environment and "Wild Dingo" fell right into their poorly defined algorithms. Mr. Wild Dingo eventually had to request the IT department allow this site through the corporate firewalls so he could visit with his fur-family whenever he needed a distraction. Can you imagine how that conversation must have gone?
"No, it's not a porn web site. This really is my wife's work web site. No, the dogs do not write the code or the blog posts."
Today, the web has grown up. Search engines and good SEO practices saved the day to help level the playing field for small businesses. This site has been crawled enough to know that the content on it is harmless distraction.
