Time line and History

Timeline and history of yeroc.us and its predecessors. A progression of web design, programming, and experimentation.

2002

March - Registration of deerfield.com DNS2Go name "cbll.myip.org"
March 28 - First serving of a web page from my home computer.
April - Set up of web server (Genesis) on old Windows 98 pentium box.
May - First wide-scale distribution of web page by my server (a school project)
May - I heavily advertised my humble site to people from school. They all signed the Guestbook, which was run with a simple Perl script. It was an elegantly simple system, far removed from the fancy database-storage systems we use today.
June - Apache replaces vqServer as the HTTP software.
June 18 - PTD, our cable internet service provider, cuts off incoming requests to port 80. I had to switch the server to port 8400, for the time being.
July - CBLLProfile profile for AIM launched.
June 21 - First Outhouse (CIRadio) live radio show.
September 29 - cbll.net Domain name registered and pointed to server.

March - First environmental information appears on web site (a blog post about e-waste in China).
March - Operating system of server is changed to Red Hat Linux 8.0 from Windows 98.
April - Cbll.net is used to present many school projects.
April - The current server, Andreas, was put into operation running Red Hat 9.
May - Disposable Society web site is put online.
May - New super-fancy garish metal interface is created for cbll.net.
November - Ugly garish metal interface is finally replaced.

November 9 - I presented my high school "Graduation Project" on CBLL.NET and related web design projects, server operations, etc.

December - "Searching For Order...In This World of Entropy" slogan put into effect.

November - International Database of Waste-to-Energy Plants is launched. The database never really got off the ground, I did not have the time to take care of it though the software still exists and may resurface somewhere/sometime else.

January - The Outhouse radio is finally updated with all movies and radio shows made.
June - Some GUI updates, mainly adjusting the header/footer to make the page look prettier.
December 23 - Registration of the domain name yeroc.us, which will become the new domain, replacing cbll.net for the web site.
December 23-Jan 1 - Web Site updated, content reviewed.

August 01 - Web hosting changed from in-house to Arvixe. This gives me more bandwidth, hopefully more reliability, and reduces the burden on some other parties who shared the old in-house servers. It also fits better with my current lifestyle where I tend to move between three cities in a seemingly random fashion, and being physically responsible for a server which is in only one of those places was becoming a challenge, especially when flaky wifi connectivity was my only link to it.
August 02 - Andreas (the old server, running since 2003) is retired. Andreas is still a decent machine, a new hard drive is all that he needs to perform well (the six-year-old drive was a bit of a gamble - failure was probably imminent), but as for hosting my site it is no longer in service.

CREATED/WRITTEN: 2002-12-01 00:00