I f you should have any questions please feel free to inbox me. Well 9th Dimension is now under its full effect. The Colony is now transformed, the hoods are all changed. I would like to thank everyone who worked so hard on that transformation. And thanks also go to Halogen on the wonderful Colony Map and Simioni on getting everything all up by the end of December. Congrats goes out to everyone on all that hard work that shows so nicely in the colony.
Thankx.
blondie-101
CD of 9th Dimension Colony formerly know as Morning star Colony
VirtKnight/CVN Deputy
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There have been some promotions during the following week:
Blondie-101 and Lady_D have both been promoted to CD. WTG
Athena_uk has been promoted to NL, WTG I am sure you will do a great job. :-)
Sysop_SimCity has also been promoted to NL, WTG I am sure you will do a great job. :-)
Law_21 has also been promoted to NL, WTG I am sure you will do a great job. :-)
And lastly but never least. For those of you who thought Faustus would never get a job... well be warned... Faustus is one of our newest NL's!! WTG I am sure you will do a great job too! :-)
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The following are the upper staff members for the Colony: Some are fairly new and some are oldies just like Lothien :-)
CL = Lothien
Companion CD= WhiteQueen
(Medieval Times, Rennaissance, Time of Pharoahs, Alpha Centauri)
Administrative CD = Ferretlady
Events & Artistic CD = Qrisa
Tech CD = Jayman26
Colony Security CD= Tw1sted1
Public Relations, Policies CD = Taz
Companion CD = blondie-101
(Babylonian Empire, Age of Kings, Jade Kingdom, Mount Olympus)
Companion CD = Lady_D
(20th Century, The Victorians, Roman Times)
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This is a recent list of NLs and their hood name.
Babylonian Empire
NL = Sysop_SimCity
Mount Olympus
NL = Athena_uk
The Victorians
NL = Muzzlehatch
Rennaisance
NL = Sir_Galen
Age of Kings
NL = Natureboy_728
20th Century
NL = Law_21
Alpha Centauri
NL = Jellyness
Jade Kingdom
NL = Hamaza100
Medieval Times
NL = kev504
Roman Times
NL = Faustus
Time of Pharaohs
NL = Rajha
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Here is Taz's Corner, written by Taz each and ever week. There will be something new and exciting so please stay tuned :-)
Welcome to another edition
of Taz's Corner
Hi Readers,
Today I have that special treat for you. An Interview with none other then Cybertown owner and founder, Hawk. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it.
1) How did the idea of Cybertown come to you?
SFX and I spent 2-3 months in early 1995 exploring the net and became fascinated with its potential as a huge international canvas and started to look at what could we put online that would be different and that would be worthwhile and that would give something back to the community of the net from which we had gained so much.
At first we were looking at doing a magazine but as we looked at all the different parts of a magazine we felt that it would be more compelling and more interesting as a town.
At first the early designs for the town were kind of cartoon-like but then one night SFX in his house and me in mine both simultaneously realized that it should be set in the future as that would give us much more latitude in what we could create.
We spent the next 3 months furiously creating and launched the first 250 pages on June 15th 1995.
2) When you first started Cybertown, what type of system was it running on and what kinds of advancements have you made since the beginning?
With regard to the server, I don't know - some kind of elementary Linux box. The work we did creating it was done mostly on 486 DX's and a Mac. Now it's housed on several servers that are mostly dual-PIII's with a couple of gigs of RAM each.
3) I read somewhere that you are a musician. How long have you been doing that? What instrument(s) do you play? Do you have a band and if so, is there anywhere we could listen to your music?
I've been playing guitar since the 60's at school and have had various bands. In 1968 I started producing records and then spent about 20 years in the music business making records and generally having a great time! I've owned recording studios since the early 80's and still have a great PC-based studio in my house.
I also play bass and some keys and a little drums. I had a band in LA until I moved to Florida about 8 months ago. I keep meaning to put some of my productions online but haven't really done so except for a real hodge-podge of bits and pieces of demos put up years ago which sound awful because they were in the early days of RealAudio (before mp3) when the quality was very poor. If anyone's brave enough, they're at http://www.cybertown.com/blues.html
4) What part of the world are you from?
Liverpool, England.
5) Some of our female readers want to know, are you single or married?
Single, still looking for "the one".
6) What are your other hobbies aside from Cybertown and Music?
I'm addicted to recording and I love playing. I love good movies and have a large collection. The quest for knowledge. Travel. Helping people. Snuggling.
7) With Cybertown now being pay, Has the amount of people that signed up for subscription suprised you? Is the amount less then, more then or about what you expected?
More than I expected - and thank you all. I'm also paid up for the next couple of months myself too :)
8) Could you share a little information about things you have planned for Cybertown? Upcoming events? Changes? Cybertown Next Generation?
We have a meeting coming up next month to discuss these very isssues. The introduction of "Silhouette" will of course be a change and should be very fun for families. We still want to do NG of course. And yes, we plan new places, events, games, contests etc.
9) If a rooster lays an egg on a slanted roof, what side will it roll down?
I'd be very surprised if a rooster laid an egg.
10) Is Cybertown what you expected it to be after being online in the respect it is now for over 4 years?
Well, come this June it will have been online for 8 years and it has become in many ways what we hoped and also in many ways more than we expected.
11) How did the market crash and subsequent fall out of investors afraid to invest in internet technology affect you?
It affected us very badly. We went from a staff of 25 to a staff of 1 (me) and if it hadn't been for the selfless work of the Caretakers we wouldn't have survived. Since potential sponsors became so cautious we have had to look at how to enable CT to become self-supporting and, even though I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it, the result was the subscription system that we have now implemented.
12) Anything you wish to add?
If Taz laid an egg on a slanted roof, what side will it roll down?
I just want to personally thank you for taking the time out to answer the questions. I also want to thank you for finding alternatives to keep Cybertown alive on the net. I have personally known you for almost 4 years and I can say you are devoted to finding ways to keep Cybertown up and running and making it the best it can be. Thank you for giving us all a place we can meet people from all over the world and do it in a setting that is fun.
You're more than welcome :)
Hawk
Respectfully,
Taz
CD 9th Dimension/CVN/Wizard
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