1995 Site History
On November 17, 1995, this site became the first operational
Johnston County School affiliated site on the Internet. It was one of
the first in North Carolina to provide reference content. This index
has the earliest date at the bottom and latest date at the top so our
regular users will have less scrolling.
- December 1995 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has
server trouble and eventually crashes entirely. There was two weeks
data lost for everyone posting to the server (tape backup saved the
site from extreme stress and provided a reasonable chance for recovery).
We were one of the first sites to be loaded on the server and operational,
because we were able to provide a complete set of the site's current
files from Garner. Yes! We finally did something right.
- November 17, 1995 - Site was publicly announced as up and running.
Shucks. It had taken a little while to learn that the directory path
they told us about in the site instructions, the directory path we place
the files in, and the URL are not the same. It was a struggle.
- November 10, 1995 - Based on user surveys, we decided to design a
site for the Netscape 1.2 browser and HTML 2.0, with a minimum level
of service to be a weekly review and update.
- November 9, 1995 - After offering various answers to the UNC technical
questions, and almost calling Dial-A-Prayer for remote access methods,
we were assured of a site and remote access to maintain the documents.
- October 27, 1995 - We were contacted by UNC about going on their server.
The big words in the reply were easy to understand. Frankly we had trouble
with the small technical terms and acronyms. We did understand the answer
was "Yes."
- October 25, 1995 - Discovered Cary High School had a site on the UNC
server. We were told it was developed by a student's father, who had
since moved to Virginia. Apparently he does the updates very remotely.
We wanted to share the dance steps the North Johnston Country Western
Dance Club was learning and see if we could gather more. We requested
by E-mail an equal opportunity for our school and told them we definitely
would need some form of remote (off campus) access. The core of the
individual step descriptions had been researched by December 1991 and
used in the Stills' classes and workshops. In 1995, If the subject
is Dance Steps . . . Volume I - A Guide to 72 Country Western Line and
Specialty Dances, Second Edition, was released. We used newspaper
single column text flow to eliminate wasted paper due to white spaces
between texts. Environmentally correct initially, but they created waste
when the teachers ran class copies. Earlier in 1994, we released, If
the subject is Dance Steps . . . Volume I - A Guide to 72 Country Western
Line and Specialty Dances, First Edition. It was a revision of our
big print multipage class handouts to a small font text size and added
spiral binding. There were minor text changes to create a uniform description
of the movements. Workshop editions are stapled, but we used spiral
binding and flexible covers for marketed copies so you can roll them
up in your bedroll.
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