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PPT
History
Introduction
Written by a staffer who created PPT from its humble beginnings to its current
splendor, the following is a history of PPT, a little corner of innocence on
what we call the net. Although PPT may not have been riddled with large
catastrophes and inner-turmoil resulting in staff revolutions, the following
information is the recollections from Yukio, the first and current webmaster.
While truth is merely the interpretation of events for an individual, (thus can
be argued that there is no absolute truth), what I present here will be as close
to the truth as possible. If anyone would like to correct dates or information,
feel free to email me. - Yukio
It started with two
One fine and sunny day in February 2001, when summer holidays were coming to
a close in fair Australia, after yours truly logged onto the internet post
taking-his-pet-doberman-Wolf-for-a-walk-in-the-park, he was greeted by a girl
known as Alicia. "Hey Yukio," she began, "let's start a Neopets fan site!" Not thinking she was serious at the time, Yukio waited until
Alicia had started off the base of what was to become, the biggest Neopets fansite ever created. Now knowing she was serious about the whole website deal,
Yukio, bored for he had nothing better to do at that time, joined his collective
efforts to help Alicia get the site off the ground. The only information quote I
can provide you with? "Oh Cool!"
The humble beginnings: February 2001 - December 2001
This website started as a small website that contained only Poogle Solitaire answers.
It started off by gaining only 2 visitors a day. The next day, it grew to 23.
Cliffhanger Answer where then added. Two weeks on, word went around somehow and PPT
was starting to go into the 200 mark. The content grew every day.
Alicia, then created the oekaki, an online art board. Oh my, it proved so successful. It grew into an online community with many people using it, far beyond my expectation.
With at least 2,000 pieces of artwork are created there every day, there was bound to be at least 3 people online at the same
time whenever the oekaki was visited. Created on the servers of unixdaemons, the
oekaki quickly became a popular feature on the site. Due to the popularity,
Sako's oekaki was created alongside PPT Oekaki, to compliment to extremely
talented artists that were emerging from the oekaki. Unfortunately, the oekaki
grew to the extent that no host could host it anymore as it was consuming a
large amount of bandwich (mainly due to the fact that the oekaki was image
driven). Sadly, the oekaki was never re-created after unixdaemons emailed Yukio
telling him that they can no longer host PPT's oekaki due to its "insane
amount of generated traffic".
In March 2001, one month after opening, PPT was reaching visitors of up to 2000.
In April 2002, 8,000. It was also during this month that Alicia, decided to leave. She had her reasons of course, her life was busy as everyone's is, and that was a blow to me as she was the person that pushed me further, to help people. I couldn't of done so much without her behind and supporting me. 2 months down the track, she returned though and everything was once again set in motion :)
Unfortunately, a further two months proved Alicia could not juggle her daily
life with PPT so she resigned.
Nearing the end of April 2001, PPT was receiving 25,000 page views a day. In
August, a representative from the peel networks approached PPT with a deal. In
exchange for state of the art hosting on superior servers, PPT would advertise
their US based magazine company. This offer was instantly approved as PPT was beginning
to experience host troubles with hosts such as virtualave, hypermart and
geocities. During April 200, PPT reached 145,000 page views a day and have past the milestone of the 2,000,000
hits.
In September 2001, the world opened its eyes to a pleasing deep blue colored
layout. Created by a mate by the name of Ben Williams from www.hologramdesigns.com
in an attempt to spiffy it up, the new layout created organization for the site,
something much sought after as the content volume had grown to over 100 pages.
I love this website because I am working with people who I love working with. We have fun when we do stuff, when we chat, when we tease each other. I love this website because so many people email me and send things in to help contribute and help all the people out there who play this game. In its own right, I love this site because it has brought a group of people closer together, irrelevant of the differences, where skin color, race religion and origin does not matter at all.
This website is dedicated to providing people with many helpful hints and tips to a great game and it will always be dedicated to just that. All things here are original and are never copied. However, you know what? I believe that this site does more than provide hints and tips to a game, I believe that it does something a million times more special, bring people closer together :)
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