Have you ever visited www.turku.com?

It WAS a funny site hosted by Marcel Albert Stenzel in the USA!
And here is a former version of that page. And here is another former version of that page.

From: travlodg@ix.netcom.com
To: Jouni.Satopaa@turku.fi
Subject: Re: turku.com
Date: 26 Jun 1997 4:32
 
On 06/25/97 11:46:29 you wrote:
>Dear Sir,
>
>We noticed that you have just registered "turku.com".
>
>We do not need that name, because websites
>ending with ".com" are not very common in Finland.
>
>But we are very interested in your website project.
>So could you tell me more, please!
>
>Regards
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Name:    Jouni Satopää 
>Title:   Senior Planner (Data Communications, Information Services)
>Address: City of Turku, Information Technology Department
>         Lemminkäisenkatu 14-18 A 6144, FIN-20520 Turku, Finland
>Phone:   +358-2-2627429   
>Telefax: +358-2-2627409   
>Mobile:  +358-50-5590429
>E-Mail:  Jouni.Satopaa@turku.fi
>X.400:   G=jouni; S=satopaa; P=turku; A=elisa; C=fi
>Web:     http://www.turku.fi/~jsatopaa/
>-------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Mr. Satopaa

Thank you for your inquiry.
 
turku.com is part of a larger, long term project.
I plan to make it available as an "open platform",
and will be glad to accomodate needs and interests
of a variety of people and organizations.
The goal is to provide good, quality content for 
the visitors and a low cost, easy to manage platform
for content providers. 
 
Best regards
 
Marcel Stenzel
 
PS: I have looked at your personal homepage: Congratulations!
 

Marcel Albert Stenzel TURKU3-DOM 9727 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR 97220 US Domain Name: TURKU.COM Administrative Contact: Stenzel, Marcel A MAS110 stenzel@CHECKMAIL.COM (503) 255-1400 (FAX) (503) 256-3842 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Registration, NTX RN16-ORG registration@NTX.NET 707 256-1999 Fax- - 707 256-1997 Billing Contact: Stenzel, Marcel A MAS110 stenzel@CHECKMAIL.COM (503) 255-1400 (FAX) (503) 256-3842 Record last updated on 22-Apr-97. Record created on 22-Apr-97. Database last updated on 24-Jun-97 05:23:33 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NSB.NTX.NET 209.24.1.216 NSX.NTX.NET 206.79.254.150
From: Jouni.Satopaa@turku.fi To: contact@topname.com, info@topname.com Subject: turku.com Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:35:17 +0200 Dear Mr. Stenzel I visited your page "www.turku.com" for a long time. It was sad to see that your long time project is still under construction. If you need material for your project, you can visit our page "www.turku.fi". It would be nice if could create a better service for our few English-speaking customers as we can here in Finland. If you need help, do not hesitate to contact us! Have a nice day! Regards, Jouni Satopaa From: "M. Stenzel" <info@topname.com> To: Jouni.Satopaa@turku.fi Subject: RE: turku.com Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:15:28 -0800 Dear Mr Satopaa, Thanks for your friendly message. Sorry to disappoint you - it might still take quite a while until we are ready. We appreciate your offer for material and for help and will contact you at a later date. Best regards, Marcel Stenzel
Registrant: Marcel Albert Stenzel TURKU3-DOM 1837 Canyon Drive Pinole, CA 94564 US Domain Name: TURKU.COM Administrative Contact: Stenzel, Marcel A MAS110 info@TOPNAME.COM (510) 724-4421 (FAX) (510) 724-4031 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Registration, NTX RN16-ORG ntxhostmaster@NTX.NET 707-256-2853 Fax- 707 256-1997 Billing Contact: Stenzel, Marcel A MAS110 info@TOPNAME.COM (510) 724-4421 (FAX) (510) 724-4031 Record last updated on 13-Mar-98. Record created on 22-Apr-97. Database last updated on 12-Nov-98 05:03:18 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NSX.NTX.NET 209.1.144.216 NSC.NTX.NET 204.107.140.15 Stenzel, Marcel A MAS110 info@TOPNAME.COM Marcel A. Stenzel 1837 Canyon Drive Pinole, CA 94564 (510) 724-4421 (FAX) (510) 724-4031 Record last updated on 29-Sep-98. Database last updated on 12-Nov-98 05:03:18 EST.