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Bytewriter.com was established in 1999 by Emery Jeffreys as a on online consultancy to provide simple technology solutions.
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Jeffreys began his career as a reporter at his hometown daily newspaper, The Logan Banner. It was one of the first newspapers in West Virginia to use computer terminals for writing articles. One of his first big stories was the Buffalo Creek flood which killed 125 people when a coal slag dam collapsed.
Like most reporters, he's worked at a number of newspapers. He eventually landed at United Press International. Some of the stories he's covered include the Jim Bakker fall, infamous criminal trials and the beginning of the first Persian Gulf war.
At UPI the connection with computers entered his life -- filing stories remotely with a TRS-80. Then, against his wife's better judgement, the bought a Leading Edge computer with a 40 megabyte hard drive, the largest available at that time.
Using that computer without the aid of Election News Service, UPI used a simple Excel spread sheet macro to tally results in the key U.S. Senate primary race between Charlotte Mayor Harveyy Gantt and Sen. Jesse Helms. UPI declared Gantt the Democrat primary winner -- hours ahead of the AP and Election News Service.
After the bankruptcy of UPI, he moved on to The Daytona Beach News-Journal and worked as a business writer and learning Computer-Assisted Reporting Research.
Jeffreys built one of the first online newspapers in Florida. That meant going to Embry-Riddle University for classes in advanced Unix and C programming.
He also worked as a Senior News Producer at Central Florida News 13, one of the largest 24-hour news channels in the southeast U.S.
