As reported in today's DR1 News:
DR1 is 20 years old
Today, Tuesday 26 January 2016, dr1.com reaches its 20th year online. The news service was founded by journalist and entrepreneur Dolores *******, who at the time was the publisher of the Dominican Republic's English language weekly newspaper, The Santo Domingo News, which ceased publication in 1997. The first news updates and other information were uploaded to the Internet on 26 January 1996, coinciding with Duarte Day. DR1's first webmaster was Joe Spadaro, who was the webmaster for the New York Public Library at the time. Robert ******** joined as webmaster in 1997 and launched the popular DR1 message board as a public forum for the dozens of daily questions the site was receiving.