Maxis Ville History

Here is a breif overview of the history of Maxis Ville

1998-01 - Website began as Streets Online. Like many sites at the time, it was hosted on GeoCities. It provided 15 MB of disk space for free and you got to be part of a “community” online. I picked the following URL from a plethora options: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Cavern/1792.
1998-03 - Began writing content for SimCopter and SimCity. Renamed site to Maxis Online. Website grew too big for one GeoCities account, so I set up a second account to host my downloads at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/2346
1999-03 - Started using a lot of external services (CGI scripts) for the forms on my website. This peaked my interest in Perl and CGI scripts so I moved my site to WebJump which offered 25 MB of disk space and a cgi-bin for free. It appears I also got a subdomain at http://maxis-online.webjump.com
1999-04 - Folks complained about WebJump’s advertisements so I sought out a new host. I moved my the website to VirtualAve.net where I received 20 MB of disk space, CGI, Server Side Includes, and a subdomain for free. My site was hosted at http://maxis-online.virtualave.net
1999-05 I quickly filled up my disk quota on VirtualAve.net so I picked up the http://members.xoom.com/Maxis_online for hosting content. Unfortunately, Xoom whent offline fairly shortly thereafter.
1999-08 - My website had about 75 MB of files stored on four separate hosts.
1999-08 - Maxis (proper) started to use the phrase “Maxis Online” on their website. To avoid a lawsuit, my website was renamed to "Maxis Ville". I opened an additional VirtualAve.net account at http://maxis-ville.virtualave.net.
1999-11 - VirtualAve.net announces that free hosting will be discontinued.
1999-11 - Tried out EziWeb with my site located at http://free.eziweb.com/maxisville however this host shut down shortly thereafter.
2000-01 - Moved MaxisVille to AFreeHome.com. They provided 50 MB of disk space, but no other features. Website located at http://www.afreehome.com/maxisville
2000-06 - Moved website to Hypermart. It provided 20 MB of disk space, CGI, Server Side Includes, and a subdomain for free. The website stayed at http://maxis-ville.hypermart.net until HyperMart announced its closure.
2000-06 - Josh van Hulst started SimStuff.com and convinced me to try out his server. I moved some content to http://maxis-ville.simstuff.com. A common online acquaintance of ours, Peter Osorio, convinced me to move my Streets of SimCity content to his site at http://streets.simstuff.com.
2004-01 - Once I got DSL at home, I started to self host the website at http://maxis-ville.homeip.net. The website remained online here until 2009 when I took the server down.
2019-07 - I restored Maxis Ville using four partial copies of the website I found on old media and several web scraping tools. The website was placed online at http://maxis-ville.kloppenborg.net where it will hopefully remain for a long period of time.

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