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News obit: Charlotte Internet pioneer Steve Snow

Jason Sandford December 30, 2008

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

Steve Snow, a former journalist who helped bring Charlotte into the Internet age, died suddenly in Asheville on Saturday. He was 60.

Snow was known in the Charlotte region for almost 19 years as a columnist, reporter and editor with The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer, starting in 1976. In 1994, he left journalism to launch Charlotte’s Web, a community computer network that offered Internet access to low-income families and others who didn’t have home computers then.

“There are so many things you can do with this technology,” Snow told syndicated columnist Neal Peirce in 1995. “This should be a real energizing force for neighborhood, economic, civic development. It’s a powerful new medium just in its infancy.”

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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jd January 2, 2009

Steve was a kind, warm and dynamic individual. He was committed to preventing family violence and helping victims of domestic violence recover. Steve served as the Faciliator of the Asheville Buncombe Coalition for the Prevention of Family Violence. http://www.abcpfv.org He will be missed!

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Miss Daisy January 1, 2009

Wow. In Asheville, he helped people as a behaviorist at the Buncombe County Health Center. I knew so little about him. Thank you for this.

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