During November 2003, I had an idea to start development on a business directory portal software, to make it easy to find details contact of companies, which the Yellow Pages website did an extremely abominable attempt at being useful. During December 2003, the first code was written for what became known as biz.directory which was basically a Smarty Template Engine extender. The development version of biz.directory was called "bumble.bee" with a picture of a firefly as the logo.
The bespoke software was written using PHP4 under FreeBSD server. One of the ideas behind the software is that every company should be able to have a website even if they are unable to afford to have one developed for themselves, by providing companies with space on their listing page to display two pictures and add copy about their company.