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In early 1996, The Wawasee List took a major turn. It had grown
quite obvious that the World Wide Web was quickly becoming a very useful
(and well publicized) portion of the Internet. To take advantage of
this new technology, Greg developed the first Wawasee List Web page.
The page was actually just a text file with a few simple formating changes
(no color, no images, no thrills). This static page was quickly replaced
by a CGI shell script. This 38 line (spaces and comments included!)
program added "search by name" capabilities to the Web page.
(Members Listed: between 30 and 60.
Lines of Code: 38)
Before the beginning of 1997, the Wawasee List had out grown
the old text file and email distribution system created in 1994. (Pine
wasn't handling sending the same email message to 100+ people very well.)
To combat this problem, the Wawasee List went through its most bold and
challenging change ever: moving to an entire WWW distribution system.
To accomplish this goal, a new database storage system for the List
was build as were multiple CGI programs for retrieving, updated, and adding
data. This new system also added many new fields: Graduation Date,
Maiden Name, Home Page URL, and the "What I am up to" text area.
(Members Listed: 119. Lines of Code: 1110)
Shortly following the major update, an email based version for accessing the database was added. By sending commands to a special email address, users without decent WWW access (mostly at BSU back then) could retrieve the information as they wished. Also added at this time was a majordomo email distribution system for the announcement of updates.
In late 1997, The Wawasee List got a minor face lift with the addition
of frames. Code was also added to help synchronize the majordomo mailing
and the Wawasee List database.
(Members Listed: 200. Lines of Code: 994)
In Late February 1999, the next version of the Wawasee
List (dubbed version 3) was unveiled. This new version added the
following fields: current city, current state, picture link, and last
updated field.
This version also included many enhancements (e.g. huge user interface
work over, new search functionality, and a brand new internal
database schema which make the system much easier to maintain).
(As a result of the DB changes, database changes
started occurring within 24 hours!)
(Members Listed: 319, Lines of Code: 1148)
January 4, 2000, Version 3.5 of the Wawasee List was released.
This release added the long awaited Announcement Board (better known
as WHS News) functionality to the Wawasee list. This new functionality
allowed users to post
announcements for events former WHS students might find interesting.
(Members Listed: 419 Lines of Code: 2302)
January 8, 2000, Version 3.5.1 was released. This release added graphical
stats along with a popup window for WHS headlines.
(Members Listed: 429 Lines of Code: 2521)
May 20, 2001, Version 3.6 was released. This release added the WHS Webboard.
This addition provides a "chat" type forum for users to discuss issues related
to Wawasee High School.
(Members Listed: 861 Lines of code: 3801)
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April 26, 2002, Version 4.0 was released. The main purpose of this
release was relocate the Wawasee List to is own domain. http://www.wawasee-list.net. As part of the
move, much of the code was converted from perl to php.
This allowed me to clean up the interface a bit (especially the
main page), plus add some new features (improved stats, list of recent changes,
row display limits, etc.)
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This has been a fun project for me and I hope to keep it running for
a long time.
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Current Maintainer: Greg Hormann
Questions?: maintainer@wawasee-list.net Main URL: http://www.wawasee-list.net/ |
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