The IdHOP Museum

The unabridged history of the Interdimensional House of Pancakes

• Nov. 26, 1996: IdHOP is founded on the AOL member web page space. Here is the old lobby.
• Nov. 29, 1996: IdHOP is given content. The original 7 rooms are the Arcade, the Rec Room, E-Line Hall, Patio Dining, the Arboretum, the Inconspicuous Back Rooms, and the Tube Station.
• Dec. 7?, 1996: The Stack Café (formerly just "The Stack") is added to the list.
• Dec. 20, 1996: The first rennovation. IdHOP is given graphics -- a logo and simple graphics for each room.
  
• Jan. 1, 1997: IdHOP gets counters.
• Mar. 20, 1997: The second rennovation. Fancier graphics (oooh--transparent!) for each room, backgrounds, colored text, and quite a bit of content, too.
  
• May 3, 1997: The Library of Aashevoi is added to IdHOP
• Sep. 6, 1997: Began move to Geocities. Counters were removed. See the final counter statistics.
• Sep. 13, 1997: E-Line Hall becomes E-Line Hall 2,000 and is accompanied by E-Line Backstage and the E-Line Bulletin Board.
• Sep. 18, 1997: Third Rennovation. Finished moving to Geocities, added frames and an animated logo. Background music was soon to come.
  
• Sep. 20, 1997: The Underground and the Chapel are added.
• Oct. 27, 1997: Added current counters.
• Oct. 28, 1997: Added the Commons.
• Dec. 7, 1997: Geocities begins new advertising campaign, IdHOP is promptly moved to Rampage server.
• Jan. 4, 1998: Rampage's 100MB offer proves to be too good to be true when Rampage's server disappears; page is moved to Deep-Thought using the OmniHTTPd Web Server; IdHOP gets the new adjustable URL 'idhop.home.ml.org'.
• Shortly afterward: Added a new, gratuitous, 3D, raytraced, half-megabyte logo.
• Feb. 9, 1998: Started to do seasonal things (like special holiday logos)
• Apr. 11, 1998: Got the Mailing List up and running, plus some minor rennovations.
• Aug. 20, 1998: Fourth Rennovation. Added an excessive amount of javascript, the Dome Roof, the Wishing Well, and the new exhibitions area including the new Lopsoland page and Kommunism for Kids, added the new room logos and ornaments, plus several revisions.
  
• Aug. 18, 1999: Added Oracular Wisdom
• Jun. 15, 2000: Started the Random IdHOP News on Onelist
• Dec. 9, 2000: Finally broke down and got paid web hosting
• Dec. 21, 2000: Fifth Rennovation. Learned CSS, merged the 'Normal' and 'Spiffy' versions of the page, graphic revisions, cleaned up the site organization.
• Dec. 2, 2002: Got sick of my old web host, moved to OC12host.com

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