August 22, 1995 to August 22, 2025 = 30 years of this website !

Daniel K. Allen's 30 Year Old Website

173 web pages and 2,060 images.

BRIEF HISTORY

I started this web site as an internal Microsoft project. It was two days before Windows 95 shipped, and we at Microsoft were encouraged to create websites to gain better knowledge about what our tools could do to build websites. (I was part of the Visual C++ team.) However, I built my website by hand with just basic HTML. Style sheets did not get invented until many years later, and I have just stuck to HTML ever since.

In 1995 the website began by being hosted on IIS on Windows NT 3.51. It was only visible on Microsoft's internal network.

In 1999 when I retired I then moved this site to NWLink.com, and then over a few years it moved around more, to ATTBI.com, then Comcast.com, and then Earthlink.net.

In 2005 I began hosting the site on my own Macs at my house, using Mac OS X and the built-in Apache web server. This included getting my own domain name, kind of: danallen46.homeunix.org.

In 2014 I moved this site to BSDVM.com, an external cloud provider, moving the site to a FreeBSD based system. I found a simple web-server in the BSD ports called Boa.

In 2015 I got my own full domain name: dkallen.org.

In 2016 I moved to Vultr.com, another virtual machine in the cloud provider, and I have now been hosting my website from there for almost a decade now. Vultr has great uptime, is inexpensive, and I maintain full control over my VM. I run FreeBSD-14 and I do all of the updates. I still run the Boa web server. Updating the website is done via rsync. Simple.

I am a creature of habit. I really have only had two designs for the site. Up until early 2005 it has just text on the home page, with a Perl CGI script to count visits. Then in 2005 I added a column of random favorite photos and got rid of the CGI script. I added a couple of JavaScript functions! So I am still on my second design. However, the yellow background? That has been here since day one!

-- Dan (Webmaster)

P.S. - The scrolling marquee was added just for today, the anniversary. I have never used it before, but it is my nod to the early Internet, when almost everything online was true, and scams were unheard of. I miss those days.

Daniel K. Allen

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Recent PagesLast Updated
Digital Cameras22 Aug 2025
Driving Distance Records30 May 2025
Cars, Cameras, & Computers12 May 2025
Notable 300mm Lenses24 Apr 2025
Tripartite Philosophy31 Dec 2024
Favorite Gadgets12 Nov 2024
World Ocean Volumes24 Jul 2024
Recommended Gear Kits at Various Levels24 Jul 2024
Backup Strategy Visualized30 Jun 2024
Favorite YouTube Channels18 Dec 2023
Tech Gear I Am Using27 Sep 2023
Porsches Compared: 959, 992, Dakar21 Jan 2023
TripsLast Updated
Another Loop of the West27 Jan 2016
Trip to Nantucket06 Apr 2015
Three Glorious Weeks in Europe18 May 2010
New York with the Girls22 Jul 2009
Solo New York Trip12 Feb 2009
Frankfurt Auto Show25 Sep 2007
Beth's Trip to Hawaii26 Mar 2007
May 2006 Trip to Argentina26 Jan 2007
ICW Trip21 Nov 2003
Open Boat to Campbell River, BC12 Jun 2003
London, Munich, SalzburgOct 2001
Western Big LoopMay 2001
Visual Sea: FloridaFeb 2001
Lower 48 States TripMay 2000
ComputingLast Updated
Awk for MPW, Win32, & source code14 Jul 2024
Awk Program: ascii30 Jun 2024
Awk Program: addhex13 Jul 2023
Building GCC10 Nov 2020
My Mathematical Teaching Genealogy15 May 2017
Clang 3.8.1 vs. GCC 6.2.026 Aug 2016
Thoughts on Text Editors09 Jan 2016
The Meaning of ls03 Jun 2007
Internet Anywhere on a Mac w/Verizon10 Feb 2005
Macintosh 20th Anniversary24 Jan 2004
Mac OS X Deallocation Bug12 Dec 2003
Mac OS X Numerics/AltiVec27 Jun 2003
Mac OS X & CPU Reviews12 Nov 2002
Building Perl on Mac OS X21 Oct 2002
Periodic Table of the Elements17 Aug 2001
The Eigenvalue Problem Revisited04 Jun 1984
NavigationLast Updated
Awk program: gcpoints14 Jul 2024
Awk program: s2k14 Jul 2024
Position of the Sun (Javascript)14 Jul 2024
Viewing Distant Peaks from Mount Hamilton10 Dec 2016
Terminology (Nautical and otherwise)09 Aug 2006
Clearing a Lunar Distance by Henry Halboth15 May 2004
Geographical Center Problem (Javascript)17 Jan 2004
Random Text Generator (Javascript)17 Oct 2003
Position from 2 Bearings (Javascript) 5 Aug 2003
Lunar Pages from 1888 Bowditch22 Mar 2002
Counting Rocks at Wish Poosh06 Jul 2001
Closest Point of Approach (Javascript)03 Jan 2001
ThingsLast Updated
The Math of Tying Shoes04 Nov 2019
Digital Camera Specs10 Jun 2019
City Webcams30 Apr 2019
Favorite Things & Music by Artist/Genre12 Mar 2019
Center Console Contents04 Mar 2019
Publishing Digital Photos27 Aug 2016
My Book at The Library of Congress20 Oct 2012
Look at Automakers19 May 2010
Ahnentafel Report23 Feb 2009
Spring Lake Garage Shelves15 Apr 2006
Favorite Photos I've Taken02 Feb 2005
Recent Reading06 Feb 2004
List of Books06 Feb 2004
Sextants03 Nov 2002
Visual Sea: Specifications, History, Logs27 Feb 2001
Other Travels & EventsLast Updated
Thoughts at age 57.99727 Mar 2017
Provo City Center Temple/Tabernacle Fire09 Jan 2016
February 2nd03 Feb 2008
Spring Lake Retrospective01 Dec 2007
Utah Lake Ice06 Feb 2007
Brigham's Soccer29 Sep 2006
NYC Graduation Trip06 Jul 2006
Trip to Boston & Salem11 May 2005
Trip to New York City29 Apr 2005
Visual Sea Launch Revisited18 Nov 2005
Mystic Seaport 2005 Gathering21 Feb 2006
List of Trips02 Jul 2005
Spring Lake09 Jun 2005
A New Horse29 Apr 2005
New Beetle #2 (TDI)06 Apr 2005
Allen Family Reunion29 Mar 2005
Farming in Spring Lake18 Mar 2005
Hugh Nibley Funeral Report04 Mar 2005
Hogle Zoo19 Feb 2005
North Cascade Highway Trip14 Feb 2005
Tofino, BC16 May 2003
Mount Rainier PicnicMar 2003
Lake Havasu & other Feb TripsFeb 2003
Autumn in North BendOct 2002
Volkswagen Eurovan19 Jan 2002
MacWorld San FranciscoJan 2002
Puget Sound Guy's Sailing TripAug 2001
Oregon Coast BeachhouseAug 2001
Summer in WA, CAJul 2001
New Furniture, FinallyJun 2001
Utah Funeral, Wyoming CabinJun 2001
Andrew's Birthday on Mt. RainierApr 2001
Visual Sea: Loading on SuperServantJan 2001
Visual Sea: Anacortes to BCJan 2001
Snow and SeaDec 2000
Visual Sea: Seattle to AnacortesSep 2000
Grand Canyon TripFeb 2000
Garage Shelf Project w/Tom Taylor29 Jan 2000

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Created:22 Aug 1995
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