In 1996, American intactivists held a meeting in Evanston, Indiana at the same time that the AAP was having its annual meeting in Chicago. The plan was to have a meeting of intactists and then go as a group to demonstrate at the AAP meeting.
George Hill
went up to Evanston for the meeting. There he made met Geoffrey T. Falk
, who was a graduate student from Canada. Geoffrey had some knowledge of the Internet while George had none. Geoffrey wanted to start a website that provided information about circumcision. George thought that was a good idea, so he wanted to help him with it.
George's strong suite was typing because he had converted his keyboard from qwerty to Dvorak, which was much faster and easier to type with for him. He would use Microsoft Word to transcribe the text of an existing article into a Word file and then email the file to Geoffrey who knew hypertext mark-up language (HTML) so he would convert the file to hypertext and upload it to the website he had created.
George Hill worked from photocopies of medical articles that he found in various places.
Later, he learned the basics of HTML and started to format the files.
At that time there was almost no medical information online. That came later.
They had the first copy of Douglas Gairdner's landmark 1949 article online and it is still there today:
Time marched on. Geoffrey graduated from university and returned to Canada, so he no longer could maintain his website. Contributions terminated in 2013.
Geoffrey later assigned the website the Canadian Health and Human Rights Partnership.
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