That "history" was the first design of the pages... designed by Allan (and still maintained on his server) with the help of SpeeDj and myself... (10/00 to 2/01 time frame)
Then Folding@home came along.. and Allan took over the stats project there and J helped him out... the SETI team went from about 200 active members to about 50...
I took over the site design (a project leader who had lost most of the original "stats project" team) and developed the graphics and layout for the site, largely as it still exists now... my first use of both photoshop & Frontpage and my firts (and last) web site design
(2/01-3/01 time frame)
During this time, Ed wrote his
article in March, and we went from about 50 to 20 active SETI members.. With that setback, I largely gave up and then TC emailed me (he was a complete stranger to both me & the forums at that time--he had like 5 posts or something.... but we had a mutual friend)...
I showed him the rough design of the pages... he made comments, criticisms (M42 in the main graphic came from Tim) and the pages took off and were up and posted... (3/01-4/01)... by June the site design had really come together and the team took off: 300, 400, 500 members by July 30th...
A couple months later things changed for me, significantly. RL changes, team changes, OC changes... I quit SETI & the team & the OC forums after trying to find someone to take over the project... The team remained strong but the stats pages floundered and then died... (after the Folding debacle, I had for the most part remained a team of one when it came to the actual "work" of posting stats... this was not for a lack of voluteers--many tried to help out... I should have listened to them, I admit...) (8/01-9/01)
Then TC started working on the project & Chawken & Basher too... It became their vision and was resurrected by virtue of their "reshaping" the project... (I have to admit I only stopped in very occasionally--once or twice a month, if that)... Their changes are, and have been, brilliant--in many ways it is much harder to remodel than redesign. (9/01-10/01)
I, much like everyone, appreciate the hard work that Tim, Sean, Juan, etc. put in on a weekly basis...
I have no real explaination for why I wrote this... and it is the team history acording to me... (yes, this is very subjective, but also factual... I admit there are other possible perspectives on many of these events...)