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Welcome to the 21st Century.

What's New?

30 Mar 2009

Published FFNF08. Oops!

13 Jan 2009

Published FFNF07. Committed to monthly schedule until finished.

09 Apr 2002

Published FFNF06 (Ghod, has it really been two years? Must write faster...)

08 Jan 2000

Added pronounciation to marines entry on socpol
Published FFNF05 (not too late!)
Re-ordered story list

11 Dec 1999

Removed broken Raider Wars link from alsolike
Made solemn pledge to post more of FFNF before Y2K

14 Sep 1998

Added Hong Kong Stock Exchange link to alsolike
Still planning to renovate these pages RSN...

03 Aug 1998

Published FFNF04 and updated all related pages

21 Jul 1998

Updated sponsor logos on splash page
Have promised Dan Sandler that FFNF04 will be done by August 1998

12 May 1998

Cleaned link rot on alsolike
Resolved to finish FFNF04 Real Soon Now

18 Feb 1998

Added "Raider Wars" link to alsolike
Felt guilty about not having finished FFNF04 yet...

04 Feb 1998

Updated "Reading" link from Turkish web site

17 Jan 1998

Began moving web pages over to snout.org
(Corrected hyperlinks, updated copyright dates, etc.)

21 Nov 1997

Trimmed some rotted links from alsolike

27 Oct 1997

Fixed typo and added chem comments to scitech

24 Oct 1997

Added Amazon.com associates message - link from Welcome and Disclaimers
Updated CDnow and Amazon.com banners on next and done
Updated Welcome on GeoCities

23 Oct 1997

Added CDnow "Cosmic Credit" logo to Disclaimers
Added Amazon.com banner to Welcome page (joined Associates program)
Added Amazon.com Associates logo to Disclaimers
Updated banner layout on Welcome
Made Disclaimers background white (#FFFFFF) to accommodate borderless logo
Fixed missing italics in "A.D. 2060" part 13
Added CDnow and Amazon.com links to next

20 Oct 1997

Added CDnow banner to Welcome page (joined "Cosmic Credit" program)
Updated GeoCities page graphics, layout

01 Oct 1997

Added UN-OOSA link to Related Sites
Fixed personal links on Related Sites ("www-cs-students", NOT "xenon")
Updated some links on Publicity

20 Sep 1997

Touched up splash page

08 Sep 1997

Moved UNSF and UNIA logos to Sketchbook
Added "logos and emblems" section to Sketchbook
Added comp.infosystems.www.announce posting #4 to Publicity

06 Sep 1997

Released "By Any Other Name" (FFNF03)
Added UNSF and UNIA logos to socpol and scitech, respectively
Added "Food service" section to scitech
Changed headline link on text-only home page
Added FFNF03 link to Story
Replaced old splash page graphic with new UN logos

04 Sep 1997

Added comp.infosystems.www.announce postings to Publicity
Re-ordered items on Publicity page
Added "now playing" tag to top of text-only home page

03 Aug 1997

Trimmed some fat from Feedback Form
Added Stanford link to No Fate chapter 1
Corrected some bad links, typos, etc.

16 Jul 1997

Added "Material science" to SciTech
Added "Hong Kong" to SocPol

21 Apr 1997

Removed "Best o' c.i.w.announce" link from splash page and Publicity

14 Apr 1997

Added "Miles O'Space" joke to socpol
Closed down Downloadables page for now

11 Apr 1997

Released "Slings and Arrows" (chapter 2 of No Fate)
Changed headline link on text-only home page
Added entries to lingo, scitech, and socpol
Added Zpadnov Room to Sketchbook

09 Apr 1997

Added Linux "ad" banner to splash page
Fixed "Graphical Pages" link on hype page
Minor typo fixes in No Fate, Part 01

29 Mar 1997

Added "Best o' c.i.w.announce" to Inbound Links on Publicity

25 Mar 1997

Turned off links to "Graphical pages" for now

18 Mar 1997

Added helium-3 rambling to SciTech and changed "Encryption" heading to "Cryptography"
Corrected order of appearance on Cast
Removed extraneous notes from Story
Linked all story chapters together in publication order
Tweaked miscellaneous hyperlinks, typos, etc.

16 Mar 1997

Changed graphic and reorganized text on splash page

14 Mar 1997

Released NO FATE: 1: Minions of the Moon
Changed headline link on text-only home page
Added bits to SciTech, SocPol, and Lingo

16 Feb 1997

Added essays on "cold fusion" and "reactionless sidearms" to Science and Technology
Changed headline link on text-only home page to NO FATE: Prologue
Added Casablanca dialogue to URL redirect page

15 Feb 1997

D'oh! Gave out wrong URL for NO FATE yesterday... added redirect page

14 Feb 1997

Launched NO FATE; sent E-mail announcements
New Story pages now contain links to Linguistics and Personnel pages
Spiffed up other pages as required

10 Feb 1997

Added to definition of "jick" on Linguistics page
Working on new pages for NO FATE...

05 Feb 1997

Moved "Interlude" to top of home page and Story

04 Feb 1997

Added "Interlude" to Story section; modified Story page, "A.D. 2060" parts 1, 2, 5, and 15, and Linguistics page accordingly
Updated copyright dates on Misc. Disclaimers
Added warning to Downloadables about out-of-date documents
Removed "Tail of Night" from Story listings

30 Jan 1997

Moved readers' comments to new page hype.html
Cleaned up splash page a little
(Should render some new title graphics...)

20 Dec 1996

Added "Leonard McBride's Home Page" and "Quintex Alliance Counsulting, Inc." links to Related Sites

18 Dec 1996

FF added to New Worlds Ring - splash page text updated

17 Dec 1996

Added HTML for "New Worlds Ring" (WebRing) to splash page; final text pending approval by ringmaster
Made large graphic on splash page into live hyperlink

18 Nov 1996

Added self-effacement to Why Liner Notes?
Fixed title and added FAQ link to Fast Food Adventure
Minor text changes on Linguistics

12 Nov 1996

Added "Electric Pen" inbound link to Publicity page
Added "No Fate" to Story page

29 Oct 1996

Added "hollow" to Linguistics
Added "Coming Soon: NF" banner to splash page

13 Oct 1996

Created new directory "snaz" for graphical pages
Began reformatting Graphical Home Page with frames

05 Oct 1996

Added more of Niven's Laws to Liner Notes

27 Aug 1996

Changed text color and highlights on splash page
Removed Newton Book list item from Downloadables

14 Aug 1996

Rewrote last part of Why Liner Notes?
Fixed some formatting and text in History and Background
Specify image format (GIF) in Sketchbook and Publicity

27 July 1996

Added preview of navigation button graphics
Added "Solar System Live" to Related Sites

02 July 1996

Added "Torus Machine" to Related Sites

28 June 1996

Quick proof-of-concept reformatting of Story: A.D. 2060; will clean up later

27 June 1996

Added Raj's random quotation to splash page

20 June 1996

Updated navigation on Misc. Disclaimers page
Added What's New page
Thinking about reformatting the Story...