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"When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be. The Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned. " This site does not accept users from outside the United States. Any user who does not use real names and email addresses will be blocked or deleted. Subscribe to our online newsletter. In 1989 Jack Porter opened a small bulletin board system (BBS) in Madera called Zen Den Systems. The one-line BBS ran on the commercial Wildcat software, while many of the other boards in the area used a free software called Opus. ZDS was a part of the FIDO-Net system at the time and there was controversy with the Fresno boards because of it. For the next five years, the bulletin board grew and was named the 11th most popular board in North America by Boardwatch Magazine in 1991. As the Internet grew in popularity, bulletin boards faded away. ZDS, however, Mr. Porter found a home on the Internet with a new name: The California County Connection. The country music website followed the entertainment scene around Northern California as it related to country music. Nearly every country star to make an appearance in the Valley was on the California Country Connection. It was when an artist named Garth Brooks sat down with us for an interview the site's founder got the idea for a local Internet portal called Madera Online. Madera Online began as an Internet portal on August 6, 1997 with community information about the city of Madera. We would run press releases from service clubs and provide information about local events. Then we got a call from a local business that changed everything. He was facing an unfair situation at the hands of one of Madera's city council members and asked us for help. On August 29, 1997 we became a newspaper. MJ Nabors, who ran the Madera County Action Agency, had a skateboard park in Berry Construction industrial complex off of Pine Street in Madera. In the complex was a skateboard shop that was being provided free rental space at the skate park. The Madera business owner was also in ...