Decemberized has been my primary site since becoming the spiritual successor of my 'Dann Page' from
the mid-90s. I had just gotten a web design job prior to the .com bubble burst and wanted a personal
website for anything I found interesting. At first it would have a news archive like some of my other
sites, but I realized I had no audience. It's since become more of a part portal/part page stubs.
I host the sub-sites: Ductwars and
DCJ which are slightly different than their dedicated pages.
There's all my flash cartoons and some links which probably don't work anymore. I often use this to
hang sub-domains off when I don't want to pay for a top level domain. The site has more or less been
dormant for years with no real plans to add much more to it.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
My most frequently updated page, it's the main fan site for Oakley products, housing a
product database, reviews, articles, and a large user base. It has changed a lot over the years, so
I will refer to the Site History page rather than
taking up much more space here.
Original URL: http://dcj.amaltd.com/oakley/ later http://www.o-review.com/
With geocities long gone, a new site emerged to provide free hosting in an environment that encouraged
retro 90's era design. Many followed, and I had been wanting to add a few things like my Quake mods to my older
sites, but also didn't really want to change them. I thought about adding them to Decemberized, but this
appeared to be a much better option. Plus it's fun, and I plan on continuing to update this as my new personal site.
Original URL: https://dann.neocities.org/, later https://dannarchy.com
I also wanted to start a site that would document a lot of the things that I'm interested in, the places I visit,
or just as an excuse to delay cleaning the attic by taking a million photos of what I find. This was my
original idea just prior to Dannarchy and Neocities, so I decided to just make its home there as I had
the space, and there is some user engagement.
Original URL: https://dannarchy.com/en/
After taking up bug photography, I also took a liking to organizing and identifying them.
While flickr was used initially, I wanted something where I could systematically catagorized everything.
Borrowing heavily on bugguide.net, I started with Phylum Arthropoda and worked my way down the
taxonomic tree until I hit the species level for each of my finds. I also added representative photos,
juvenile examples, location and time markers, and general families.
In July 2016, as part of my mission to upgrade all my relavent sites from older languages, I converted the site
from ASP classic/Access DB to PHP/SQL. I had also run a sister site for other wildlife outside of 'bugs',
however this was twice the work, so I merged the two and started the tree at Animalia.
After porting over the long standing original version to a custom programmed and updateable script,
I scrapped that and went with a wordpress site. My host allowed an installation, so I figured this would
let me just concentrate on the content. But by this point, I just didn't have the energy for it, so
it lies more or less dormant. However everything was ported over, so searching the site is much better.
There are about 7 new entries though throughout 2015.
Original URL: http://www.goshzilla.com/
Like Ductwars, our filming group also has a page on Decemberized, but in 2006 I used this domain
(probably the reason I dropped the ductwars one), to attach most of my related sites. The main page
is now simple a portal to other places, but it helps having them all easily accessible.
The domain from 2001 to 2006 simply mapped to the Decemberized IP.
Original URL: http://www.dcjproductions.com/
As a fan of the X-Entertainment Advent Calendar, I saw that the complexities of the story and characters needed
some sort of organization all in one spot. I set out to catalog all that I could. I got most of it done and
kept updating for the rest of that year as well as the following in 2010. After that the creator stopped making
them and moved to a new site. Despite not being relevent anymore, I continue to expand the wiki out of sadness.
Original URL: http://adventcalendar.decemberized.com/
The revival of Goshzilla went well, with almost daily, if not weekly, updates. The site design was feeling
a little dated since it went back to 2000, so I converted it to a 960px grid design, which was all the rage at the time.
Everything ran off one ASP file, which was neat, but we sort of stopped adding content after that, and the site went
dormant again.
Original URL: http://www.goshzilla.com/
In late 2010, we bought a Ball Python. Intrigued by the various color and pattern morphs, we ended up getting a few more. After a time, we thought about breeding them and creating our own genetic mixes. In order to keep this organized, I made a site that would track snakes, genetics, pairing, feeding data, etc... At first in 2011, it was just Thombs Python, but I changed it to Leviatan's Clutch as a play on 'clutch' (a set of snake eggs) and reptilian lore. After a few seasons of breeding, we sold off most, but the site remains to document the lineage for those we sold.
This page is meant to be a collection of the various photos and video taken during my experiences at concerts
throughout New England. What started as an attempt to get the most out of my point and shoot camera, slowly turned
into video compilations and then later into fully edited songs. This was mainly at the end of 2009 through most of 2010,
and then a few in 2011. Since I don't really visit shows anymore, we can consider the site to be dormant.
Original URL: https://neconcerts.wordpress.com/
During one of our 1998 skits, we had a rap group come on our news show while acting as stereotypically bad as they could be. At the end of their terrible interview, they performed a song, which I captured and remixed several times. After that, we made more audio tracks trying to create the worst possible songs ever. I put them on MP3.com at the time, and somehow people started adding them to playlists. The quote at the bottom of the page is actually genuine. After MP3.com stopped being what it was, nothing more was done with it until I made this sub-site in 2009.
At a point, I archived some of the older portions of the site. It had been mainly a hub for a while, but
many of the art, portfolio, and story pages were still linked off the main page. I altered the layout very
slightly to include a border and a return to the original 2000-era logo. The bio page was merged and stripped
back a bit. It appears that I moved to the GoDaddy host at this point rather than hosting it at work,
since I moved jobs and didn't have the dedicated servers.
From January - September 2009, I brought back a news update script that would detail all the updated
across the various sub-domains, but that later moved to dann.thombs.com (ie: here until I changed to this
HUB design).
In 2015, I moved the pages from ASP to PHP, but little changed otherwise from a UI perspective.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
After 6 or so years of not touching the site, I revived it and started adding new entries with a friend from work.
The music reviews were taken offline, and I converted the flash menu to HTML, while still retaining the look.
I also converted the static site to ASP classic, so I could update it through a database.
Original URL: http://www.goshzilla.com/
Back in college around 2002 we had a database project, so I decided to make it useful and start mapping out all of our film projects, actors, characters, locations, etc... I updated this local Access file for a while until I started getting better at web scripting. In 2006 I converted it to an online format that displays things in a better format. I still have to update the core Access file as a data source, so it hasn't been current in a while.
My wife wanted a page for our cats, so I created this one quickly with some of the photos
we had taken. It covers 2004-2005 mostly.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/catscats/
2004
2006
The design was moved back to a wintery theme, and the dinosaur returned. I removed some of the older content
and added thumbnail bars to the DCJ movie listings. Later I started using the front page as a HUB to link to other
of my sites, as well as sub-site hanging off the main domain. The site went offline for a while until 2009 when I
started the godaddy hosting, and got everything back.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
In early 2004, the domain was available again, and I set up a site since the forth part of the movie series
was going to be released. I always had the Ductwars mini-site on Decemberized, but this would cover more information.
This ran for about two years, until I didn't want to pay for another domain annual fee, so it became a subdomain,
which didn't cost anything. The content remains the same, but some links were modernized.
Original URL: http://www.ductwars.com/
I dramatically changed the layout of the site, and removed the menu as well as altering the colors. I added a randomly
rotating series of splash images detailing our group's activities. DCJ movies were updated with DuctWars 4, and further
details for past movies.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
Added a new splash screen to the main front page, and now pointed both the main domain and dcjproductions.com to it.
There's no news section or secondary landing pages now, just the content areas. A dedicated page to
DuctWars 3 was added, but only with a few photos,
since the movie was in mid-production. CD reviews and Animation were taken down since those moved to Goshzilla or not needed,
leaving only the 4 main subsections and the various DCJ related sections.
Later in 2002, an uncompleted DuctWars 4 section was added,
and the DCJ movie list continued to be updated as production continued. The random header lines changed from
DCJ movie links to DCJ quotes.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
In my last year of college, we decided to build a robot and see if it would be accepted into Battlebots,
which was popular at the time. They did, so we started getting it ready and to head to San Francisco to compete.
I made this website to collect information for it. I dropped the domain after a while for cost reasons, and
archived it under Decemberized with a few links depreciated (news/guestbook) since they ran off the ASP script server we had
at school vs my host. I found the original content on the Internet Archive and have since added them back in.
Original URL: http://www.clambot.com/
Webcams were all the rage at the time, and usually you had to have an FTP script pushing a snapshot up to a web host. Our school was able to open up some IP addresses to the outside, so we could simply have the camera drop the photo onto the web folder and it would be live. The last photo is just the empty lab.
After stumbling upon B-movies and, in turn, their review sites, I wanted to make my own. I started
by recycling my music reviews from Decemberized (and removed them upon the next revision there),
and also added some faux reviews of our own Goshzilla movies. I only added some new things until 2002,
and the site remained dormant until April 2008, when I converted the site to a database driven one
and added more content. I also removed the Music reviews at that time.
(The original site had a flash menu, which despite the annoyance of having to click on it to activate,
the real issue was that Flash hyperlinks don't seem to work anymore, so I've updated it to the HTML version
seen on the next iteration)
Original URL: http://www.goshzilla.com/
This is the result of my CMT200 class on web design. I already knew everything in the class, so I just
did what I felt for the semester. There's a flash cartoon at the end.
Original URL: http://salve5.salve.edu/~thombsd/cmt200/
The flash design eventually became annoying to implement, and browsers weren't all that aggreeable
to embedding the plugin after a while. I converted it to plain html and updated it throughout the rest
of the year when the movie was finished. There's a few updates to add some media files, but those
are all long gone.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/six-aces/
This was more of a design that I created vs. a site that I worked on. I think this layout never ended up
going live, but this was going to be for Viscid's personal page.
Original URL: http://www.neuralspasm.com/
Most of the Blue Potato related content is the work of my friend John, from DCJ. This was the school newspaper,
which ended up also having its own movie. I did write the news script for the site. The database ended up being too
old to read, but I was able to deploy the web-app and generate a static HTML page from the results. I've archived
the rest of the site here.
Original URL: http://www.bluepotato.org/ (directing to http://208.131.55.1/bluepotato/news.asp)
Much like Ductwars.com, I was able to get a free domain name and hosting for a time. I was into
Flash as always, and made an entire website that was one flash app. I used this to learn a bit more
and was able to tie in sub-flash documents, so I didn't have to update the entire thing if one
portion changed. I also made a sensitive menu that would scroll up as your mouse cursor went down,
so I could fit a large list of choices into a smaller area without dragging. At the time I was
working for a web design company, and also browsing the newsgroups that were more popular before
large message boards. I'd often implement new things based on suggestions or to find solutions.
There was also a prior version with a few character bios for the first month in July when I got the
domain name, and it used a standard Decemberized style header image.
Original URL: http://www.six-aces.com/ (activated on July 5)
A mild update to Decemberized added a dynamic news script (for which I luckily had a copy of the database),
a revision to the SixAces site, and more updates to DCJ. I added a few more corners and changed up the
random header quotes to be DCJ movie clip downloads. Several flash layouts in the Portfolio section were added.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
I had a page dedicated to our Premier movie: Ductwars on my main site, but cast member John
was able to get a domain name for free to redirect to the XOOM hosting site. He built this
page to cover most of the content, and it's a bit more comprehensive than the DCJ sub-page.
I had lost it for a few years, but he was able to find a copy in 2003. I've converted the flash
menu to regular hyperlinks, but the splash images are still in Flash format. This was abandoned
in early 2002 for a redesign, and the domain was lost by the end of the year. According to the
internet archive, it was commandeered by an adult web portal for some time before dropping off.
Original URL: http://www.ductwars.da.ru/ then http://www.geocities.com/ductwars/
then http://www.ductwars.com/ (which bounced to http://members.xoom.com/ductwars/)
During my junior year, I started dabbling with ASP and databases. Everything was in a self-contained Access
database file, which would be the standard until I finally moved things to PHP/MySQL 15 years later. The CD
list here is probably outdated, but not much much as I can't imagine I bought many more after 2000.
Original URL: http://208.131.55.1/cddatabase/
Upon getting my first real job doing websites, I was able to get a domain name with the money and found a cheap
hosting platform. I didn't know what to call it, so I chose something that popped into my head from highschool
and ran with it. It's still mainly a personal site, and hosted most of the things I had created up until that point
like images from graphic design classes, and the flash cartoons. I also created some dedicate pages for our
movies as well as our group that made them. I had some CD reviews, which would later end up on Goshzilla,
and some webpages created by The Sims game.
Original URL: http://www.decemberized.com/
These are a few of my CMT100 projects. It was linked off my Salve page at the time, but would later
migrate to the first revisions of Decemberized
Original URL: http://salve5.salve.edu/~thombsd/cmt100/
I scrapped the graphical page for whatever reason, and made it a simple listing for the content of a few
classes during my Junior year. I only list it here, since the Communication Media sub-pages are of interest.
The ISS502 Java page will no longer work in modern browsers.
CMT100
CMT100
ISS502
Beached Whale
Index page in 1999
Original URL: http://salve5.salve.edu/~thombsd/
I made one more attempt to ressurect The Daily Death with Goalie from the RIYF clan. There's only a design
mockup, which was inspired by the aesthetics of the Stitches music video by Orgy.
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/
Team Fortress 2 was planned to appear soon after Team Fortress Classic. We of course didn't get it
until almost a decade later, and it looked nothing like the WW2 shooter in the screenshots. This site
was a collaboration with Viscid, and never appeared. It looks like we didn't buy the domain either.
Also see the July version,
Screenshot 1,
Screenshot 2,
and the original site logo.
Tentative URL: http://fortress2.net/
The third attempt at getting the RIYF league running. This time, it was geared more for automated signups
and scheduling battles. I recall a ton of people filtering in, and I'd get endless requests. Nothing really came
from it though.
Sub-Folders:
My digital business card
Shadow Clan
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/
My first attempt at collating my various Flash cartoons. I only found this in a .zip file,
further hidden within a subfolder. Only after looking at the images, did I realize I found a
lost webpage. It appears that I initially tried to work with iframes and layers based on which
browser the person was using, but later it seems I settled on included code with a javascript
file. The title Happy Toons was used later on Decemberized, which I hadn't realized until this point.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/toons/
I felt that I needed to overhaul the main page, and flash seemed to be the way to go. For the
purpose of this archive, I've linked to the main landing page since Flash is on its way out. The
original Intro is here.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/
There was another free webhost called Freeservers. I signed up for it, but at this point there
was no other unique website I could think about putting there, so I just made a hub to
some pre-existing ones. I didn't seem to choose anything that was notable though.
The link above goes right to the main animation, and none of the links work at his point.
There's also an intro page that is flash and
should connect to the main menu, but the link is hard coded and doesn't work. There's
a link page too.
Original URL: http://dann.freeservers.com/home.html
As Half-life was getting older, Quake 3 was up and coming. I teamed up again with Alex from Far2Cool to design a Q3A site. I first made a Flash intro in February, 1999 and then later a full layout. Since it seems unfinished, I don't think it was ever live. (a browse on the Wayback Machine shows a different layout from October 1999, until a shutdown in March, 2001)
Instead of a summer job, I tried to start a web design business. During the dot-com boom there were a fair amount of customers who needed a web presence. I remember a few leads, but I'm sure I didn't carry any of them for long.
The RIYF clan updated and was going to be hosted on Half-life.net. It was mainly an interative update to the pages
with a white rather than black design. I created my own division based on something I was learning in my Biology class.
Sub-Pages:
Electrochitin Division (my personal one)
Phantasm Division (I reused the Rantinofly layout)
Original URL: http://www.half-life.net/riyf/
After Half-life.net didn't work out, it seems I tried to get into the existing and rival halflife.net.
I mainly reused some of the tutorials that were on Far2Cool. I didn't have a hand in the design, and it appears that
the site continued on until August of 2000 with new members. I've linked the archive below.
Archive:
via Wayback
Original URL: http://www.halflife.net/hec/
After getting fed up with the Half-Life community, Alex from the Far2Cool website voiced a similar feeling
We decided to revamp is site and start and irreverent fan site that didn't care about playing it safe. I opted for
a newspaper design, and we played that as far as we could, including a fake barcode logo, and making news update
as weekly 'issues'. It seems that I wasn't on Daily Death anymore since I mention it as an outsider. I forget
if I fell out of favor with them.
Original URL: http://www.far2cool.com/half-life/
March 1999 attempt
Half-life.net inspired layout (July onward)
Since Half-life.net didn't end up happening, I returned to The Daily Death. I borrowed the design by dreamline and
sort of standardized the main news page with that layout. Mike, the original site creator, didn't end up posting as much
though we still hung out on IRC. Another user, runabout, did a many of the news posts until about December 1998.
There appeared to be an attempt by Viscid to update it in March of 1999, but I believe most of us had moved on by then.
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/
July, 1998
September, 1998
February, 1999
May, 1999
As I had been creating a lot of sites and graphics, I wanted to collate them in one spot. I also had a few partially
finished examples that never made it to a live website. For every site I created, this page also changed quite a bit over
the months.
Original URL: http://members.xoom.com/cuecas
Probably one of the more cringey things I've created. Hot off my AnarQuake site where I
gave my freshmen-in-college level world views from time to time, here I made a dedicated site
to that sort of content. I believe around the time, artistic (and in retrospect, very pretentious)
personal websites were popping up all the time. Somehow I took that as an inspiration. Luckily
for everyone, it lasted a total of 5 days.
Original URL: http://members.xoom.com/cuecas
Initial layout
Design by dreamline
Proposed Redesign
Redesign by zi\\a
Many of the Half-Life fan sites became competitive and started trying to get top level domains, rather than hosting off
either free sites or other gaming ones. Eventually Planetquake created PlanetHalf-Life and put everyone out, but we tried to
get half-life.net up and running. Here's a few proposed layouts, but the site really didn't take off. I also stopped updating
The Daily Death for the time being. It appears there was another attempt in August at a redesign, but little came from
that either.
Hosted Sites:
RIYF Clan v2
Original URL: http://www.half-life.net/
On IRC, someone named Goalie said he was starting a Half-life clan. The game wouldn't be out for a while, but he
figured he would start organizing. I offered to let him host the site on The Daily Death. There were three initial
divisions: Phantasm, Napalm Death, and Alpha. Each had their own mascot too.
Sub-Pages:
Phantasm Division
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/riyf/
This was a hosted page for community models and skins. It didn't seem to be used, despite showing up on the menus, and
only my content ended up there as placeholders.
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/zoo/
Flash Menu (May-ish)
Menu Dropdowns (April-ish)
My first revision (December 1997)
In late December, I created some banners for a Half-life site that I was following. The owner was thankful and then offered
to let me be one of the contributors. I proceeded to resign the site, and ported over a lot of the content from the Half-Life
page, Trip, and 3-D Gophers. I had minor menu revisions throughout May, when we thought we might get our own domain. I took
June off while waiting, but then started up again in July using the layout borrowed from the new site (which didn't happen).
We hosted a few sites as well, including the first Half-Life clan.
Hosted Sites:
Nuke's Level Reviews
RIYF Clan v1
The Twisted Zoo Model/Skin Site
What I've Learned Today
Original URL: http://www.frag.com/halflife/
Tripod was the other big host, so I concentrated mainly on just upcoming game characters and
only those that were upcoming hence the omission of Hexen II and Quake II. (I've since found the Quake 2
page and re-instated it). It is actually still online
with some banner ads, but the original is archived above.
Original URL: http://members.tripod.com/~chaheygn/
I eventually started added a news section to the Geocities page after seeing that trend on other sites like BluesNews, Redwood, and sCary's Shuga Shack. I thought that was a weird concept at first as most websites were static, and I didn't envision returning to a website on a daily basis to see what's new. I talked as if I had an audience, and there's a ton of cringey ramblings of the usual world-wise thoughts of a 17-year old. This is one of the few sites that I have no original copies of, and was pulled entirely from the Internet Archive, so expect a fair amount of broken images.
My school provided web hosting too, so I took advantage of that once I got there. Like many of the pages,
I didn't have a unique idea for the space, so it became a portal to other places. Later in the spring, I
added a Flash option which pretty much gave the same links, but they flew into the screen. Those are
broken now, so type 'Regular' when prompted to get the HTML version. The links went to some other defunct site,
but I had the same files in that folder, so I've fixed them to refer to those instead.
Original URL: http://www.salve.edu/~thombsd/ (also http://danman.home.ml.org/ via DNS)
Most likely the last revision. I added a few links on the landing page to my Game sites, and revised the Gopher page. After being offline for a while, I did put up a copy around 2000 or so, and that appears to have the same content. This version is parked at the original URL, minus the tilde(~) that denoted the original Unix user folder.
After Quake, I started getting interest in a lot of other 3D games. I started a Half-Life page momentarily,
but it only lasted a month before I bounced it over to the Tripod and Geocities pages, as evident by
the redirect page. I would join an
existing Half-Life fan page that month too, which explains why I abandoned mine. However a lot of the
content was ported over.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/~dann/half-life/
Since HTML seemed the most efficient way to distribute graphical content without needing a dedicate program, I made this Birthday e-card for my friend. The sound no longer works due to browsers disabling JAVA.
The core content remained more or less the same, most likely with broken links taken out. The anti-Barney page got an image title that was created by taking a screenshot of a Word document. Not linked, but there was a test page where I started creating a navigation menu frame, that would end up being like the one in the 3D Game page above. The entry splash page allows you to travel through the VR museum, or skip the main page. The 'Now' buttons are all gone.
This was an unfinished page dedicated to Fractals. We had built a Java applet to explore
the Mandelbrot set, but there was also another online tool that would allow you to submit
some random numbers, and later on they would post the resulting images. We've archived a few
of these here plus the Java ones. Most of the pages were blank, so I have finished them up
based on the images in the folder. The gallery also has the later timestamp of November
which matches Amy's Fractal Page.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/fractals/
With the introduction of free web-hosting sites, I ended up signing up for all of them and creating new
web-sites on each to justify the effort. For Geocities, I created a general 3D game page dedicated to all
of the upcoming 3D shooter titles that appeared in the wake of Quake. I cut out characters from various screenshots
into transparent GIF files and organized them on their own pages. Clicking on the orange arrows in the menu
lead to older pages for some reason. I also created the Green Ribbon Shambler icon to support 'responsible speech',
as a compromise to the freeness of the internet.
Original URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/5890/
This was just a page with Music logos from bands I liked. It was only accessible from a room in the VR Museum.
Using a level I created in Quake, I took screenshots and turned them into clickable image maps. Some of the rooms would have things that allowed you to visit my friends and family's sites. Others were links to band or radio websites. There's a hint section and a duck you need to find too.
May, 1997
April, 1997
March, 1997
My first dedicate Game fan page. I had mixed games earlier, but with the 3D shooter craze I wanted to feature
my own game edits and other interesting mods for Quake. Of note is the combination of both anarchy symbols and
a stance against free speech (mainly because the wild west of an internet at the time was full of people being
rude to the point of abuse and that was shocking at the time). The influence from my Dann Page is apparent on the first one.
There are more links, and it uses the colored bullets and gopher rating system as well as only including other people's mods.
In the next version, I started adding some of my own. The final revision lasted a few months. I broke up my own
mods and the others. This would then get replaced by a 3D Game page instead of just for Quake. Originally hosted off
a /quake/ subfolder on Thombs.com, it moved to Geocities later.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/~dann/quake/
Later in March I started playing around with frames. Since you needed more screen real estate, I
made a landing page which prompted for the larger version, or the frameless. The 'Now' buttons
were massive at this point, and I was collecting them for things I wasn't even interested in. Both
versions were more or less the same as the one earlier in the fall, but the chat link was taken off.
I started trying my hand at javascript a bit more too. There's a page
that reacts to the time of day. At this point, we had moved to the thombs.com domain.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/~dann/
We finally moved to out own domain. The links became buttons, and there started to be some sub-sites.
Karen Maloney's Skating School,
Saints' Stories, Inc., and
Thombs' Home Page Service among a few others.
There's also an audio greeting, which was recorded, but never used since a 1 Mb download in 1997 would
have been prohibitive. I've readded it here though. Later in June,
some things were removed and the page was relatively unchanged through late 1999.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/
Our local ISP was hosting a school webpage contest. Whoever made the best website for their school
would win a $500 saving's bond. I felt bad since my brother and his friends worked for days on theirs
and then I spend a few minutes making this and won. It had an animated tiger GIF, so no contest. I ended
up just cashing in the bond for half value and it probably went towards my first car.
Original URL: http://www.wsii.com/users/fatima/index.htm
I started collection the 'Now' buttons made popular by Netscape Now! Many were popping up with those specific dimensions, so I added them to the Guestbook block. I added another block below that for some main links. The link pages are still there, but I also added an image map mimicking a Windows 3.11 screen. The friends page also has an image map to other pages. I can't find any record of the quake link, however it most likely turned into the Geocities Quake page, so I have recreated the page using those links. It would eventually split into the two gaming pages later on. Also there is an unlinked useless page, and a Gopher image page which according to someone on AOL messanger, was semi-viral at one point. It would be updated in time.
My sister created a page with our help. It's mostly links, but there is a Stories
page not linked off the front page, as well as a Fractal one.
Original URL: http://www.thombs.com/~amy/
The sections were moved to their own pages, and Marty Kitty replaced Hobbes as the splash image.
The guestbook is local now, and has a few entries in it. At some point 1996 we movied onto our host: BBSnet,
which was also our ISP. I used this ancient laptop to FTP the files over via command prompt.
Original URL: http://w3.bbsnet.com/~users/thombsm/dann.html
The space theme which was ever present, took over the main page now. Links were in tables, and the personal
family page was changed to match. Some business pages were added, as well as a guestbook. There was also an option
to use a frames version.
Original URL: http://w3.bbsnet.com/~users/thombsm/
March, 1996
April, 1996
June, 1996
A few revisions that were in the same folder. Some links are added/removed, and the splash photo changes from the Earth to Hobbes
A few new pages were added, and the stereoscopic background was replaced with the earth from my bedroom.
Original URL: http://198.49.179.4/thombs/thombs.html
The format expanded a bit, but all content was still on a single page. Updating was interesting. We set up an
FTP server on our personal computer, then used telnet to connect to the university web server, and connected back
to us. At that point command line FTP was used to pull the file back. There are also some hidden links which go
to random content. Those in turn have more hidden links. The first one is impossible to find, so jump straight
here. The following ones aren't too bad to track down.
Original URL: http://198.49.179.4/thombs/dann.html
This is my first separate page. It's pretty much the same content as the prior, but there are some barney
links, and the Hobbes link, black background, and red text would continue for all further versions.
Original URL: http://198.49.179.4/thombs/dann.html
I found a WordPerfect document from September talking about my trip to DC that summer and making web pages:
Upon insisting that I wanted my own page, the main home page now links to each family member. There is an earlier version of Amy's Page that looks to be the gap between the combined original page, and the more fleshed out one linked on this one. It's dated the same as the prior.
This is my section of the combined page. Many of these X-Men links would continue through all the versions
of my main page later on. The poster is something I made in MS Paint. I wanted to make it the background, but
was persuaded otherwise. The Gherkin coins were from a school project where we had to make up our own country.
Original URL: http://198.49.179.4/thombs/home.html#DANN
This is the earliest file that I can find. All of the content was listed on one page, and anchor tags were used to
navigate to specific points in the page. To get the files online, we had to copy them onto a 3.5" diskette and drive
them over to the university.
Original URL: http://198.49.179.4/thombs/home.html
This page was most likely never online, but rather an experiment in writing HTML. We didn't get the school server
access until August, and most of the links are pointing to files on my hard drive.
Original URL: file:///c:/dan/dann.htm
Just for posterity, this is the first attempt at editing HTML. I took a Tick fanpage, and started playing with
the tags, and embedding images.
Original URL: file:///c:/dan/x-men/dann.htm