The word finder and anagram solver began in 1996 when the hard disk drive on my Amiga 2000 failed, and I didn't have the money to replace it (SCSI drives were not cheap). The drive contained the software I used for composing crossword puzzles.
I had just started my first web site, and the host gave shell access. I uploaded my word lists to the shell account and wrote a couple of Unix shell scripts to replace my Amiga software.
After I learned about CGI programming for the Web, I wrote an HTML front end for the scripts, and the WordFinder was born.
New location
A few years later, I signed up for a free shell account, which included web space, at freeshell.org and moved my web site there.
The WordFinder was rewritten and redesigned two or three times on that site.
Newest location
Now, I am rewriting and redesigning it again, this time on my new site here at cfajohnson.com.