13 April 2016

20 years of Hoefnet: from farrier directory to carriage driving website

Hoefnet, the worlds most reliable and up to date news and results carriage driving website will celebrate its 20th anniversary in May of this year. When owner Cindy Timmer set up the website with her former partner, farrier Rick Velstra, it was impossible to imagine that Hoefnet would become so popular and play such a prominent role in the driving sport today.
 

In 1996 the World Wide Web was still young and the majority of communication was still made through letter mail, the telephone and fax. Email traffic was becoming more common, but was certainly not a standard communication tool and mobile telephones were not yet accessible for the average person. Thanks to the progressive thinking of Cindy and Rick, Hoefnet was developed, and over the years has grown into the go-to website of the combined driving scene.