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Mar
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Added
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Feb
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Opening
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Jan
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The
birth of horace.org, aquried the domain name and sign up with http://www.hostingplans.com
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History
of the Macross Site.
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Version
1.0
I
started the Macross Site back in Fall 1995. This is the very first
homepage I wrote. It was hosted at the unveristy's CS club. Being
a long time addict to the anime serie Macross, I decided to chose
Macross as the theme of my homepage. I used frames, Java applets,
VRMLs, anim-gifs and many other state-of-the-art visual gimmicks.
I also wrote some CGI scripts in C++ for the site, including the
guest book and a chat room. The design of the page is considerably
messy and amature in today's standard. However for a period of
time, the site was an technology show room in the internet. The
site is hand-coded using Textpad,
a text editor.
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Version
2.0
In Summer 1997, I designed to give a completely new look to
the site. After 2 years, the old design was showing its age. The
new layout looks more professional and is more user-friendly.
New sections are added, such as macross gallery, music collection
and a javascript shooting game, Operation Minmay. The Macross
Internet Directory made this site has highest number of visits
among all CS club websites. In early 1999, I mirrored the site
at unspacy.net for about half a year. The unspacy.net was closed
for now due to the limit of resources.
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Version
3.0 (horace.org)
Macross Site is renamed to horace.org in the new millenium.
I'll gradate from university this may and I foresee the need of
having a permenant email and web address of my own, hence I acquired
the horace.org domain in Dec 1999. The layout and content of site
is re-designed to utilized new IE5 features. The site is created
using Macromedia Dreamweaver
3. At this moment, the site is far from complete. I'm looking
forward to the launching of the site in near future.
Planned Improvements:
- Music collection of all my Macross CDs in mp3 format.
- Implement new database engine for the Macross Internet Directory
- Rewrite Operation Minmay for IE
- Complete Mactris with the features I originally planned back
in 1997
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