Everyday this month Philly.com/health and OncoLink will provide a daily fact you may not know about your risk of getting cancer. First up – cigars vs. cigarettes.

What’s My Risk? is a comprehensive program designed to help the user learn about factors that determine their personal risk of many types of cancer and what they can do to decrease that risk. Find out more about Cancer Risk and Prevention.

YIKES is proud to have worked with OncoLink’s Editorial Team to make this useful, important tool a reality. The project uses ColdFusion, AJax, JQuery and other technologies and was developed by YIKES experts.

Begin What’s My Risk? Questionnaire

YIKES is proud to be a part of OncoLink’s technical team since 1996. Personally, I may enjoy the geeky pleasure of watching the immense advances in Internet technology, but primarily, I care deeply in the mission of OncoLink. In the past 18 years, I have lost two of my dearest friends to cancer, but I have also seen many friends survive, going on to lead incredible lives. OncoLink was always there to provide resouces, information and support. Happy 18th Birthday, OncoLink. What is 18 in web years?

An early version of OncoLink Homepage from 1996

For more on OncoLink’s birthday, please see Happy Birthday OncoLink by James Metz, MD, OncoLink Editor-in-Chief and The Conception of OncoLink – A Perspective by Joel Goldwein, MD, Founding Editor of OncoLink.

Below are some some interesting facts and videos. Enjoy!

In 1994¹

• The White House launches its website, www.whitehouse.gov.
• Initial commerce sites are established and mass marketing campaigns are launched via email, introducing the term “spamming” to the Internet vocabulary.
• Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark start Netscape Communications. They introduce the Navigator browser.

Videos

CBC documentary from 1993 about this new thing called “Internet”

DEC – Glimpse of the Future, 1994

Sources

¹ Information Please
www.infoplease.com

² How Many Are There
www.howmanyarethere.org

Mia Levesque
YIKES, Inc and Senior Production Editor, OncoLink

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Yikes!

Mia, proud of her onion volume.

Getting ready to chop onions with our new friend George.

Now time for some celery!Yikes!

Happy New Year from all of us at YIKES. To set the year off right we are offering a special Winter Promotion for a limited time only!

Give Jodie a call or email her today for more information: 215-238-8801 or jodie@yikesinc.com.

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