Originally published April 2007

In the early 1990s, if you wanted race information faster than the print industry could deliver it to you, you bought a fairly expensive computer and subscribed to one of the information services available then–CompuServe, America Online, Prodigy, or found someone geeky enough that knew how to use Usenet, etc.

Race results from Europe then were available to you on a same day basis or even just an hour after the event, which was mind-blowingly fast.

There were many pioneers of the racing electronic age and one day they will either get their due or drift into obscurity. One name that should not be lost when discussing pioneers of the electronic media as it pertains to racing (POTEMAIPTR) is a name still well-remembered: Gordon Jennings.

Best known as a print writer, Jennings worked all over the So-Cal bike publishing scene, Cycle, Cycle World, Motorcyclist and for various car magazines as well. Jennings was totally home brew, he often mentioned that he never attended college and seemed happy to qualify various statements with that, but was dazzlingly cerebral and had an excellent grasp of technology.

Jennings and his longtime partner Karen Green realized the power of the electronic media long before really anyone in motorcycle publishing did. While most were ignorant of the…