Sprout.org was born in the heart of Silicon Valley in 1996, when the Boersmas were starting a family. Domain names were plentiful, and we are computer people, so we staked our claim and immediately began to annoy our relatives with pictures of our son and our pets.

Everything you see at Sprout.org is explicitly published under a Creative Commons license.

“Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us…”

—Benjamin Franklin