Museum
At this place I want to give you an short overview about the development of hyper-world. After all this website was not created from today to tomorrow. 
It all started when I was in the 7th greade in the internet group and I learned a little bit HTML. It has not much time passed until I created my first small homepage and hosted it at the tiny webspace I’ve got from my internet provider. I am able to remember that the background color of my first pages was black. A phenomenon which I noticed by many other beginners. But every beginning is hard a I think that this homepage had not a single visitor. Sadly I have no backup left of that first page. 
A short time after that it became hip to create RPGs with the RPG Maker 2k. Therefore I started to write a homepage to publish my own RPGs. But neither these RPGs were good nor were they finished. As colors I used ivory and a brown and as far as I remember the design was not too bad. It’s a pity that I have no backup of this page, too. :’(
A screenshot of bio.sys.de.vu (click to enlarge).
Then, at October, the 23rd, in 2003, the foundation of hyper-world was layed with the site bio.sys.de.vu. The RPG Maker was less popular, instead of it the TI-83 Plus got popular. This was a graphic calculator, which was introduced in the whole grade, and for which I developed much programs. The purpose of bio.sys.de.vu was to publish these programs. Moreover I started to use C and C++ more intense. I used this programming languages some year ago, but forgot a little bit about them, because of the RPG Maker. Actually I have a backup of bio.sys.de.vu and therefore a screenshot.
A screenshot of hyper-world in the first design (click to enlarge).
Not a whole year later, at June, the 4th, in 2004, the first version of hyper-world was uploaded. At that time accessible under the domain hyper-world.de.vu. There is also a screenshot of this page. The kind of the content was already very much alike the current content. Technically it may be interesting that this was the first page I written in PHP. The main reason for this was that the navigation was growing and it was much work to write this navigation manually (even if it was possible, the automatically generation was very comfortable).
A screenshot of the work-in-progress Version of the second design (click to enlarge).
Until the next redesign it took a bit longer than in the other cases. The next version started at the 10th of March 2006. Therefore the first version of hyper-world had the longest life span. Seen from the outside the new version brought only a new design. But behind the scenes I migrated the whole homepage to the content management system Joomla, because the programming work at my own system got too much. I do not know the reason why I wasn’t able to find a whole backup anymore. Because of that the screenshot is out of a stage where the design wasn’t final and the content was not migrated.
At August, the 23rd, of 2006 I bought a .de-Domain and hyper-world.de.vu changed to hyper-world.de.
Not a long time after that I noticed that Jooomla is not the right system for my purposes. Moreover I wanted to extend my homepage a bit more into the direction of a weblog. Firstly I wanted to write my own CMS, because this would have matched my purposes perfectly. But after I started with that, I deleted the current state accidentally. The result was that I took a look at different CMS and blog systems. Most of theme were to complicated or did not fit my purposes. But WordPress was great. It is simple to use, there are tons of plugins and also some which add enough CMS possibilities to WordPress and everything I missed I could program myself. Then, at the 26th of April in 2007 I could present the current version of hyper-world.
That was a short summary of the history of my homepage. Because this text is based on my memories, there may be one or two mistakes in it. But in the whole it is the way how it developed. Let’s see what the future will bring.
Last modification: March 22nd, 2008 at 12:48
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