Remembering Community Memory / The Berkeley beginning of online community Community Memory was born when a group of wild-eyed nerdish Berkeley types started thinking about information systems and community and how they fit together. Ken Colstad, Mark Szpakowski, Lee Felsenstein and Efrem Lipkin were friends and partners, computer-savvy types who wanted to create a simple little system that could function as a source of community information. When the foursome hooked up with a group called Resource One that had access to a mainframe computer, they knew they had the pieces in hand to create their baby.