| | For a comprehensive view of MCLI's web sites dating back to January 1996, see the collection from the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine. |
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DECEMBER
1993
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HIT-0-METER= 000000000000
MCLI's web server, the very first in the Maricopa Community College District, began service on a humble Macintosh SE/30 sitting on a quiet table outside our lunch room, running Chuck Shotton's MacHTTP server software, which then was free.
The meaning of the server's URL <http://hakatai.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu> is explained elsewhere but yet still functions. |
MCLI's first web server, a Macintosh SE/30, AppleTalk network |
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JANUARY
1994
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HIT-0-METER= 000000001204
On January 15, we listed our site on the NCSA What's New Page and saw our hits for the month of January climb high over the 1000 mark and brought the first external visitors (including Hong Kong, Italy, Norway, and England) as seen in our first month's server log. Snapshots show our first home page via what was then the only browser, NCSA Mosaic, as viewed through the Mac and the Windows version.
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JUNE
1994
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HIT-0-METER= 000000008095
In the Spring of 1994 we ran our first workshop on how to create web pages, for a group of teachers at South Mountain Community College. Writing HTML developed from the first 8 lessons then to the present version, and is one of our most popular and recognized sites. The home page has a few more information links now.
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AUGUST
1994
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HIT-0-METER= 000000034674
Our second announcement to the NCSA What's new page brought a large increase in the numbers of visitors to MCLI, and justified our request for a new web server as shown in the histogram of server activity between December 1993 and November 1994. Another of our busiest web sites, Director Web, resources for users of this multimedia software, appeared for the first time.
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SEPTEMBER
1994
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HIT-0-METER= 000000078173
We moved our server host to a 32 MB Intel 486/DX2 running BSD/386 Unix v1.1, from Berkeley Software Design, Inc. running NCSA HTTPd web server software.
Version 2 of Writing HTML was given an A+ award from the 'Net Magazine (unfortunately appearing in the issue featuring a cover story of "sex online"!)
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MCLI's second web server, a 486/DX2 via ethernet |
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SEPTEMBER
1995
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HIT-0-METER= 000006124527
Given our increasing load (see summary graph), our server moves again to a new host, a Digital Equipment Corporation
Alpha Server 4/233 with 128 megabytes of RAM. MCLI's web is on dedicated 1 gigabyte disc drive, and shares the host with two other Maricopa web servers. The WWW server software used here is Apache v.8x.
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MCLI's third web server, a DEC Alpha 4/233 |
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NOVEMBER
1996
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HIT-0-METER= 000008876452
Our Alpha server was generously beefed up to 483 MB of RAM and a new 6 GB RAID hard drive. |
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NOVEMBER
1997
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HIT-0-METER= 000010058124
In a beta version for a new web site design, we experimented with one version that involved a changin "theme" of 4, with graphic elements representing the 4 major parts of our office. The idea was to create a system where people could add different themes to our collection by uploading just the graphics. Everything was template driven, and the goal was a web site that would change in look, though not function, every day. It lays still in the experimental lab. |
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MAY
1998
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HIT-0-METER= 000021955237
Our fourth move is to a newer host, but our IT folks say for security reasons, we are not to specify the hardware nor the software ;-)
We have also set up two experimental servers, Jade runs along side our Apple Server on a PowerMac 6150 WorkGroup Server running AppleShare IP 6.1, and features our in-office "Jade-Cam". The second server, Zircon, is running Red Hat Linux 6.1 on a 486/DX2 with Apache 1.2 web server. Zircon is home for our test Real Media G2 Server.
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MCLI's fourth web server, a mystery machine!
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FEBRUARY
2000
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HIT-0-METER= 000045476228
Finally, after scores of problems with our entire site going belly up, our IS folks have found their sanity by returning our hosting to Apache
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AUGUST
2001
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HIT-0-METER= 000075643901
After several months of slow integration, we begin rolling out our new web designs, featuring a common set of CSS Style Sheets, and blue elements that match the recently designated "official" Maricopa colors. We are going for a simple, elegant, but functional look of two major types- a major project page, such as Dialogue Days which may or may not have a subset page with a boxed style, such as a single Dialogue Day One of the better iterations is the new mcli Forum.
More significantly, we have integrated dynamic elements into the major web sites using PHP and mySQL databases. A single event database allows us to generate the calendars for all of MCLI, and individual sites can draw in short calendar listings for their front page, e.g. Honors and full calendars/archives with the site. The result is a web site that is always up tp date, with no manual editing.
Thrown in to our main page is now a randomly selected image, drawn from a gallery that can expand rather far.
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SEPTEMBER
2007
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HIT-0-METER= ????????
After 10 years of attempts at continually counting, we have turned off the clock. Let's say we have had "lots" of hits in the 12 years, 6 months & 17 days this server has been running.
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