JIS Change History: 1996

Here's the log of what changed at the Juggling Information Service during 1996. Check out our steady progress.

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96/12/30

• Interviews with Jugglers now has an interview of a London street juggler first published in 1861.

96/12/20

• Juggle Saver is now in the IBM PC Software section.

96/11/12

• new home page: Evelyn Jap

96/11/08

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Calvin Roe

96/11/06

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: The Dazzling Mills Family
• new home pages: Steve Mills, Carol Mills

96/11/05

• new juggling club home page: Iowa Juggling Society, Des Moines, IA
• new home pages: Klaus Bartl, Dan Sweet

96/11/04

• new juggling club home page: OBJECTS: Oxford Brookes Juggling, Entertainment and Circus Training Society, Oxford, England

96/10/29

• new home page: Steve Carter

96/10/27

• new home page: Dan Yuen

96/10/26

• new juggling club home page: Ohio State Juggling Club

96/10/25

• new juggling club home page: Coulee Region Jugglers, La Crosse, WI

96/10/24

• new home pages: John Foss, Mary Ellen Foster, Chandler Wilkerson, Patrick Wilz

96/10/23

• added a video of the definitive Rubenstein's Revenge, as performed by Rick Rubenstein himself, in the Movie Theater's Educational Demonstration section.
• new juggling club home pages: Jerusalem Jugglers, Israel; Out of Hand Juggling Club, Providence, RI; Cougar Flingers Juggling Club, Houston, TX; University of Regina Juggling Club, Saskatchewan
• new home page: Chris Gerber

96/10/22

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Lazer Vaudeville
• new juggling club home page: Tollcross State Circus

96/10/21

• upgraded Jugit Siteswap Viewer by Dave Blumenthal to Version 1.0.1 in the Macintosh software section
• new juggling club home pages: Brazos Valley Jugglers, Bryan, Texas; Queen's University Juggling Club, Kingston, Ontario

96/10/18

• new home pages: Paul Grimes, Brian Johnson, Erica Kelch, Andrew Senske

96/10/17

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: The Unicycle Lady
• new home pages: Martin Bissonnette, Ben Frantz Dale, William V. Thayer, Matt West

96/10/16

• new home page: Gisli Leifsson

96/10/11

• new home page: Aaron Matthew Gres, Angela Lahm, Brian Postow

96/10/02

• Added a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams to the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery. Dilbert attempts to learn to juggle. Sigh. (removed 97/10/23)

96/09/30

• added prize-winning essay on There's more to juggling than meets the eye, by Sophie Tatham, to the Juggling Papers section.
• new juggling club home page: Jugglers Anonymous
• new home pages: Luis Aquino, Dan Berg, Kenneth Chu, Mikael Lasson, Arthur Lewbel, Matthew D. Nguyen, Mark B. Rosher, Nathan E. Williams

96/09/29

• new home page: Shaka Brown

96/09/06

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Guennadi Tregoub

96/09/05

• new home page: Michael E. Loescher

96/08/31

• new juggling club home page: Minnesota Neverthriving
• new home pages: Kimberly C. Draeger, Mark Fawcett, Jeff Kalikstein, Mindy Surratt

96/08/30

• new home page: Mark Butler

96/08/22

• Added collection of rec.juggling posts on Juggling Music, compiled by Gerald Shifrin.

96/08/21

• new home pages: David C. Adams, Patrik Hedmalm, Mike Kullen, Mark Schoepp, Darren Snodgrass

96/08/20

• Installed Yet Another Juggling Program, by Patrik Hedmalm, in the IBM-PC Software section.

96/08/14

• new home page: Ben Rodriguez

96/08/13

• new juggling club home page: Cleveland Clubheads, Ohio

96/08/12

• Installed two new high quality juggling animators to the Java Software section. They are JuggleAnim, V1.1, by Jack Boyce, and The Juggler, V0.8, by Allen Knutson, Matt Levine, and Greg Warrington.

96/08/11

• new home pages: Yukio Koriyama, Nica Lorber, Michael "Laurin" Mueller, Andrew Nevai-Tucker, Kevin Price, Dan Sapienza

96/08/09

• added very cool Jongl, V4.0, a new juggling simulator for the Amiga, by Martin Hoffmann. For other software for the Amiga or other platforms, see the JIS Juggling Software section.

96/08/07

• redesigned the Performers section, and added an animation created by Bob Mendelsohn
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: The Jim Show

96/07/30

• new home page: Joerg Werner

96/07/28

• Installed an updated version of Arthur Chandler's paper, On the Symbolism of Juggling, in the Juggling Papers section.
• Installed updated version 3.0 of Optimal Juggler in the Mac Software section.
• new juggling club home page: Cincinnati Club Club, Cincinnati, Ohio

96/07/25

• new home page: Mark Burton

96/07/22

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its seventh inductee, Massimiliano Truzzi

96/07/20

• new juggling club home pages: AJIL, Lyon, France; Balans, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• new home pages: Duane Campbell, Dave Milley, Judi Romijn

96/07/19

• new home pages: Jack Boyce, Tim Slater

96/07/17

• installed updated Bullwhip FAQ from Andrew Conway
• installed new version of the complete online The Lasso - A Rational Guide to Trick Roping, by Carey Bunks, in the Online Books section.
• new home pages: Travis Cobb, Kendall Harrison, Thomas Mey, Stuart Ralston

96/07/16

• added 2 new historical juggling articles by Marcello Truzzi in the Juggling Papers section:
  • Notes Toward a History of Juggling, Bandwagon, Vol. 18, No. 2, March-April 1974.
  • On Keeping Things Up in the Air, Natural History, Vol. 88, No. 10, December 1979.

96/07/07

• new juggling club home page: MUCKS, Manchester University Circus Skills Society
• new home pages: Andre Middendorp, Graham Read, Ezra Story, Stuart Wheelwright, Oren Zohar

96/07/06

• new home pages: Jeff Huber, Werner Kuhn, Jason Paul, Rob Prior

96/07/03

• new home pages: Andrew Webb, Edward Welbourne, Ken Wessen

96/07/01

• new juggling club home pages: University of Bristol Circus Society, Bristol, England; Wits University Juggling Club, Johannesburg, South Africa
• new home page: J. Ryan Heer, Nir Oren, David Partee, Juergen Schwarz, Gilles Tabary

96/06/30

• new juggling club home page: Yale Anti-Gravity Society
• Ported code to post the rec.juggling FAQ on the 1st of each month. The first of these should go out from the new site after midnight tonight.
• new home pages: Gandolf, Björn Gedda, Bret A. Goldstein

96/06/29

• new juggling club home page: Trouballs, Twente, The Netherlands
• new home pages: Matt Cawley, Dave Cooperstein, Daniel Dekkers

96/06/28

• added a smaller JIS logo to the Drawings, Artwork, Logos section of the Juggling Picture Gallery. Use this for your links back to the JIS.
• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Fitz Family Entertainment
• new home pages: Chris Ashton, Matthew Bachmann, Martin Henrik Baier, Christian Brill

96/06/23

• Added link to Juggling Drops and Descents paper by Joe Buhler and Ron Graham.

96/06/20

• Shut down JIS WWW service at HAL, redirecting all requests to the new site.

96/06/18

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its sixth inductee, Jenny Jaeger
• Shut down old E-mail file-service, news-service, and home-service. Each now refers to the equivalent new address.
• new home page: Mary Wilkins

96/06/17

• Posted announcement of new home to rec.juggling.

96/06/16

• Starting on the backlog of 300 update messages, with new ones continuing to arrive.
• Shut down FTP service at old site, with link to new FTP site.

96/06/15

• Opened new web site to the world. Finally! Will announce in rec.juggling soon.

96/06/12

• Created Organizations section for EJA, IJA, NZJA, and added CJA and JuggleStay.

96/06/10

• More testing and bug fixing, preparing to open the doors.

96/06/09

• Invited home service users to a sneak preview, to update their pages, and to help test things.

96/06/08

• Created FTP banners, welcome messages, and README's.

96/06/07

• Got most sendmail related virtual domain issues resolved.

96/06/06

• Set up finger information and automated e-mail responders.

96/06/05

• Updated all image maps.

96/06/04

• Multiple virtual FTP sites are now functioning properly.

96/06/03

• Updated links in home service account pages.

96/06/02

• Created and installed version 4.4.2 of help section.
• Ported eja and meetings sections.

96/06/01

• Bug fixes and improvements to e-mail services.

96/05/31

• Turned on automatic updating of FTP site.

96/05/30

• Further updates in the jis section.
• Built and installed new version of lynx.
• Turned on telnet web service via "www" login.

96/05/29

• Set up finalized name service and modified Internic registrations.

96/05/28

• Turned on multiple virtual web servers.
• Continued testing and fixing problems.

96/05/27

• Ported interviews section.
• Lots of tool testing, debugging, and fixing.

96/05/26

• Ported search engine.
• Ported home service.

96/05/25

• Ported remaining news archiving tools.
• Ported club meetings mapping tools.
• Ported most remaining general JIS tools.

96/05/24

• Ported Juggler's World section.

96/05/23

• Ported Juggler's World maintenance tools.

96/05/22

• Ported Help section. Created version 4.4.1 of the Help section.

96/05/21

• Ported media and IJA sections.
• Turned on new anonymous FTP server.

96/05/20

• Ported jis, publications, and programs sections.
• Installed VIF for handling virtual domains for WWW and FTP.

96/05/19

• Updated references in over 400 html files in festivals, animations, mall, fame, books, pics, and papers.

96/05/18

• Port news archiving, automated festivals section scripts.

96/05/17

• Port performers and people sections.

96/05/16

• Port top level index, Welcome, FAQ.
• Created lots of pseudo-user names.

96/05/15

• Turn on news archiving at new site. Inject missing messages from old site.
• Keep rec.juggling Welcome messages flowing.

96/05/14

• Started porting scripts, CGI code, file service and news service.

96/05/13

• Started building Apache web server.

96/05/12

• Got Help section code working at juggling.org, with Michael Gerlek's help.

96/05/11

• Administrative work, creating accounts, installing tools, worked on DNS.
• All files copied to www.juggling.org, and new site is now identical to old.

96/05/10

• The image of the JIS at hal.com is now frozen. No further updates will be made until it has been moved to it's new location, in approximately 2 weeks. This includes the automatic archiving of rec.juggling, the HOME-PAGE service, and all manual changes.

96/05/07

• Added a GIF-89 animation by Dave Torok to the Computer Generated Animations section.
• new home pages: Leo Bassi, Daniel Collins

96/05/04

• new home page (list now has 600 entries): Brian J. Roelofs

96/05/03

• new home pages: Andy Howard, Joyce Howard, Steve Howard, Will Howard

96/05/01

• announced that the JIS is about to move
• new juggling club home pages: Strong Jugglers, Rochester, New York; Ultimate Freestyle Juggling Team, Gainesville, Florida; Club Jonglage de L'ENSI de CAEN - ISMRA, Caen, France
• new home page: Keith Helfrich

96/04/28

• new juggling club home page: City University Juggling Club, London, England

96/04/27

• new home page: Phillip Sand Hansel II

96/04/25

• new home pages: Tony G. Palomino, Noel Bundy, Colin Kelly Batten, Jr.

96/04/24

• new home pages: Tomer Moscovich, Stephen Whitis

96/04/23

• new home pages: Leigh Calloway, Damian Gryski, Graham Irvine, Mike Karlovich, David Kha, Greg L. Jacknow

96/04/21

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: The Royal Jokers
• new home page: Stephen Gun

96/04/19

• new home pages: Clint Frysinger, Brent Way

96/04/18

• Installed updated version 2.0 of Optimal Juggler in the Mac Software section.
• new home pages: Bruce Chang, Josef Eriksson

96/04/17

• new home pages: Martin Hoffmann, Mikael Nilsson

96/04/15

• new home pages: John Gilkey, Stefan Sommer, Casey Whitelaw, Matt Wright

96/04/14

• new juggling club home page: University College Cork Juggling Club, Cork, Ireland

96/04/11

• new home pages: Curtis Miller, Gerry Stellenberg

96/04/09

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its fifth inductee, W.C. Fields
• new home pages: Jan Andersson, Bill Bisanz, Stephen Grainer

96/04/05

• new juggling club home page: University of Oregon Juggling Club, Eugene, Oregon

96/04/04

• new home pages: Don Ganton, Jeffrey Lewis, Sharon Moskowitz

96/04/03

• added a link to Animated Juggling Lessons in the Help section
• new home pages: Nick Duffy, Richard Fromm, David John, Terry Jones, Sean McBride, Carl Miller, Geoffrey John Pryde

96/04/02

• new home pages: Tom Angleberger, Calle Hallberg

96/03/22

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its fourth inductee, Francis Brunn

96/03/21

• installed updated Bullwhip FAQ from Andrew Conway

96/03/12

• installed an updated version of Dave Torok's animated Java icon in the Juggling Java Software section.

96/03/10

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Haggis and Charlie

96/03/09

• new home pages: Lance H. Carter, Scott "Jerry" Lawrence

96/03/07

• new home pages: Gregory Borah, Neil Brock, JD Hancock, Claire Jackson, Scott McCormick, Nita Solomon, Terrence R. Williams

96/03/06

• new home page: Kristopher Setnes

96/02/27

• new home pages: Jeffrey Borggaard, Scott Brown, Phil McClellan, Gary Wium

96/02/25

• new home pages: Michael Espinosa, Scott Seltzer

96/02/24

• new home page: Jeremy A. Moore

96/02/23

• Added today's Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams to the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery. It mentions the role of juggling in the software development process. (removed 97/10/23)

96/02/22

• new home pages: Chad Foxglove, Martin Ward

96/02/21

• new home pages: Pete Batt, Philip Burt, Dan Howard

96/02/20

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its third inductee, Bobby May

96/02/19

• new juggling club home page: Alaska Gravity Works, Fairbanks, Alaska
• new home pages: Rob Abram, Dave McGee, Chris Tazewell

96/02/18

• Added a new section containing Interviews with Jugglers to the Juggling in the Media section. Learn some fascinating insights into some of these interesting people.

96/02/15

• new home page: Daniel Brahneborg

96/02/14

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Will 'Archimage' Roya

96/02/13

• new home page: Bruce Engholm

96/02/12

• installed an updated version 1.5 of Ross McNab's simple Java site swap program in the Juggling Java Software section.

96/02/10

• added a cartoon to the cartoons section of the Picture Gallery of Crusty the Clown from The Simpsons juggling 3 clubs on a unicycle.
• new home page: Wade S. Cook

96/02/09

• new home pages: Ernest Barreto, Paul Cook

96/02/07

• Installed new Optimal Juggler software in the Mac Software section. This displays spatially optimized juggling patterns in real time, developed by Jack Kalvan, jack@clockwork.org

96/02/06

• new home pages: Ian Davies

96/02/05

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Michael Koehler
• new home page: Michael Koehler

96/02/04

• new home page: Yves Bolognini

96/02/01

• new home page: Zoe VanHoover

96/01/31

• added documentation for the e-mail gateway to rec.juggling in the News and Old News section
• new home pages: Jimmy Brokaw, Thomas Hantsch

96/01/30

• Java development is brewing nicely, with 2 new Java site swap animators added to the Juggling Java Software section. The first, by Ross McNab, rmcn@dcs.ed.ac.uk, displays simple inline site swaps. Another applet, by Alan Nichols, Alan.Nichols@Ebay.Sun.COM, is an interactive site swap viewer, with several user controllable functions. These are both very cool!

96/01/29

• new home pages: Alec Bateman, Tom Bonkenburg, Phil Catelinet, Robert Hoover

96/01/27

• new entry in the list of professional Performers with home pages: Chad Taylor

96/01/26

• the JIS Juggling Hall of Fame announces its second inductee, Paul Cinquevalli

96/01/25

• Installed updated version 1.60 of the excellent DOS site swap viewer by Ken Matsuoka called JuggleMaster in the IBM-PC Software section.
• new home page: Hans-Erich Dechant

96/01/24

• new juggling club home page: Valparaiso University Juggling Organization, Valparaiso, Indiana

96/01/23

• new juggling club home page: Jongliertreff Loerrach, Loerrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• new home pages: Juergen Haessler, John Kurtz

96/01/22

• new home page: Todd Wellington

96/01/21

• new juggling club home page: McMaster University Juggling Club, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• new home pages: Lonne Jaffe, Heymo Vehse, Seth Wilson

96/01/20

• Added a full-length complete illustrated book on The Lasso - A Rational Guide to Trick Roping, by Carey Bunks, in the Online Books section. This beautifully formatted book explains the underlying principles of the lasso and this in turn provides landmark information on the road map to trick roping.

96/01/18

• new juggling club home page: Three Ball Underground, Rutgers University, New Jersey

96/01/17

• created an archive for the IJA Affiliates and Clubs Newsletter, initially including the February 1995 issue
• new home page: James Petry

96/01/16

• installed an animated icon software package by Dave Torok, torok@i-2000.com, in the Juggling Java Software section, where it appears, in action.
• new home pages: Dave Torok, Dave Neal, Tibor Thurnay

96/01/15

• new home page (list now has 500 entries): Jerry Peterson

96/01/14

• new home page: Markus Reinsch

96/01/13

• new home page: Barry Brackett

96/01/12

• The current day's access statisitics for the JIS are now available for those interested.
• new home page: Don Wagner

96/01/11

• Added Beard Juggling Equipment to Juggler's Mall

96/01/08

• Added Space Bunny to the Movie Theater. This is an MPEG animation of a cartoon space bunny bounce juggling 5 balls on Europe, made by Bob Mendelsohn.
• new home page: Dana Montgomery

96/01/04

• new home pages: Michael Naylor, Kent Perry

96/01/02

• new home page: Dennis W. Jackson