WordReference.com was created in 1999 by Michael Kellogg, who wrote
much later on his project's website: "I started this site in 1999 in an
effort to provide free online bilingual dictionaries and tools to the
world for free on the internet. The site has grown gradually ever
since to become one of the most-used online dictionaries, and the top
online dictionary for its language pairs of English-Spanish, English-
French, English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese. Today,
I am happy to continue working on improving the dictionaries, its tools
and the language forums. I really do enjoy creating new features to
make the site more and more useful."