irene@esva.netIrene Henderson was born in Clifton, New Jersey. After graduating, she worked in a series of jobs dealing primarily with customer services and/or computers, leading to a position heading the Customer Service Department at Pantasote Plastics in Passaic, New Jersey. When Pantasote closed the Passaic facility, she was one of two employees invited to move to corporate headquarters in Connecticut. Instead she opted to go to work for her husband and her brother in their fledgling software publishing business. This in turn brought her into contact with the FidoNet BBS network. Her organizational skills made her widely respected in the FidoNet BBS community.
Her husband's retirement enabled them to relocate to the Eastern Shore of Virginia, which she had fallen in love with during many trips here to visit her in-laws.
The only shortcoming Irene saw in living here was the relative lack of connectivity. Irene had become used to following hockey scores on Prodigy, and she had many connections to the BBS community, so she was dismayed to find that everything was a long distance call.
She saw a solution to her problem in the growing popularity of the Internet, and was convinced that it was the wave of the future. She converted her commercial BBS, The Funhouse, into ESVAnet, the local Internet service provider for the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Her extensive background in the online world gives her an understanding of what it takes to operate a first-rate service, and she is committed to the goal of providing a service that is second to none.
While Irene is convinced that moving to the Eastern Shore is the smartest thing she has ever done (she will loudly proclaim to anyone who asks that she would not move back to New Jersey "for all the tea in China"), she retains ties to her home state, both in her frequent visits to her family and in her continuing devotion to the New Jersey Devils hockey team.
Irene is still dedicated to the idea that drove her Funhouse BBS, that computers should be fun, and still retains her credo:
"Whatever you do, Have Fun."
irene@esva.net