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There is also a
text-only version of this document.
This page archives changes I made to my Web pages prior to September, 2003. Within this archive I have listed the changes in increasing order of age. See also the What's New page for a truly up-to-date list of recent changes.
The rec.toys.lego Roll Call has been updated.
I've added a set of drawings by James Jessiman, showing the details of construction of the LEGO ``machine gun,'' to the machine gun page.
The RTL Roll Call was brought up to date in February; I have now fixed some broken internal links.
Linked to Gryphon Software Corporation, producers of the Gryphon Bricks drawing tool.
Added Chris Lester and Chris Osborn to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added a link to The Raving Toy Maniac Page.
Added Bram Lambrecht, Carsten Gnörlich (the BriCad Homepage), Jim Hughes, Jason Spangler, and Lewis Valentine to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Enlarged the description of my old (1977) LEGO® machine-gun design, including an image of my original hand-drawn plans. Added a description of the additional improvements I've made (Model 96) over the 1995 redesign, along with a LegoPS file that may be useful as instructions for building the model.
Added or updated a huge number of entries in the rec.toys.lego Roll Call, including new submissions made from 12 Dec 1995 to 2 May 1996.
Added Ben Vaughan to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
The Official LEGO® World Wide Web Site is finally on line.
Meanwhile, the unofficial ``LEGO Information Server'' is gone. All that remains at this time is a letter explaining the legal reasons for this change.
Added Max Coynes, Mike Dombrowski, Dan Piergallini, and Chris Shepard to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
The Bayer Group has a page about the Super Car.
Added Bill Goldberg and Stephen to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added the Virtual LEGO Web Site to my list of Web sites at universities, which, by the way, now exists on a separate page.
Added Tina Mongkolsmai to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added the ICOBotics project to my list of Web sites at universities.
Added Jason Ehrlich, Richard Goldfinder, Tyler Jensen, and André Kok to my list of LEGOmaniacs. Patrick Delahanty has a new Web page.
Jason Mantor and his RTL Bricks enterprise have a new, much easier to access location on the Web.
Added links to the photos of Gabriel D. Celis's space ship to my list of ``Great LEGO Models on the Web.''
Added new links to the Programmable Brick Project at the MIT Media Lab. Added links to LEGO robot competitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of West Florida. Added links to student projects at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an interdisciplinary project at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Added a link to the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics program for public lower-school students, and a link to the page by Weird Richard, a teacher at a PCS school.
Added a link to Yahoo's collection of links. Linked to NIC's statistics about rec.toys.lego.
Added Allen Ano, Daniel W. Bailey, Randall Barker (the LEGO Purist's Page), Robert C. Barth, Will Chapman, Jeff Crites, Michael Dorneich, Leo Dorst, Jason Grazado, Leon Hurst (virtual reality), Björn Þór Jónsson, Jeffrey Lyon, Charlie Millen, Huw Millington, Jason Pierce, Amy Ryan, Shawn Sparks (Peril Productions), Morten Steien, Calum Tsang, Matthew Verdier, Justin Watkins, Andrew Woodhouse, and Lou Zucaro (Hyperia set reference) to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Zachary Benz has made his LEGO page available again.
I've made the ``graphical'' version of these pages--the version with clickable thumbnail images--be the ``default'' version of the pages. This means that any URL that people have used to get to these pages in the past will now link to a graphical page, if there is one. You can still switch to text-only mode if you choose.
Added Robert M. Colonna, Bob Easterbrooks, Roy Gal, Colin R. Y. Gallagher, and Todd Lehman to my list of LEGOmaniacs. All of these have very interesting LEGO pages.
Added links to mirrors of the FTP archive in Austria and South Africa; see my notes on the FTP archive. Added links from my Guide to the FTP Archive to a number of new files that have recently appeared in the archive.
Added a feature on a new model by Jane Karr, a mama cat and kittens.
Added features on three new models of my own: a wheelchair, a steam-age train, and the LEGO Valdez (an oil tanker).
Added a feature on Joe Lauher's Summer Building Contest to my section on Models by Other People.
Added William R. Zwicky to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
I had a bad experience while showing off my LEGO home page in someone's home via a modem and a substandard browser; I feel the trouble could have been avoided by a smaller page, so I've moved the models by other people and the list of LEGOmaniacs' pages to separate files. I contemplate further changes in the future.
Since the question keeps coming up, added an explanation of ``Why This Page.''
Added Ben Jackson and Andy Watkins to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
It seems everyone's Web page now has a disclaimer. Now I have one too.
The full text file of the rec.toys.lego Roll Call has moved, and the data can now also be accessed by a convenient table of contents. There is now an alphabetical index, and many new entries have been added.
Added Eileen Keeney to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added James Jessiman and Sam to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added numerous recent entries to the rec.toys.lego roll call summary.
Added Kira, Eric Pilcher, Scott Schurich, and Frode Torske to my list of LEGOmaniacs; Jim Files' home page, which appears in that list, has a new address on the Web, and now has some photos from Carlsbad.
Substantially updated the Guide to the LEGO FTP Archive to reflect files that have been moved out of the ``uploads'' directory, including some new files. Also noted that the collection of catalog images from the FTP archive has recently moved to a new location maintained by Jacob Sparre Andersen.
Added Tim and Shelley Rueger to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Karim Nassar has a new LEGO page.
Added a brief description of and links to the Planetary Society's Red Rover Project for middle-school students.
Added a direct link to the maintainer's copy of the rec.toys.lego FAQ to my discussion of Usenet News.
Added Jane's Duplo model of the Johnson Museum to her collection.
Added Patrick Delahunty and Karim Nassar to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added four more entries to the rec.toys.lego roll call summary.
Added 42 recently-submitted entries to the rec.toys.lego roll call summary.
Placed some additional photos of my daughters on their page.
Added Aaron Muhl to my list of LEGOmaniacs. Aaron's LEGO page currently has some must-see photos of constructions by Matthew Verdier.
Added photos of my daughters to their page.
Brian Ward's LEGO pages have new links (the old ones were broken). He also has a number of new photographs.
I created a new hierarchy of WWW pages parallel to my old ones. The new files are just like the old except that some of them have in-line thumbnail copies of images that the pages point to. The thumbnail versions can be accessed starting at their home page; pages without all these in-line images are still available via their own home page.
Added a new section on opportunities to trade LEGO (by which I mean buy, sell, or exchange LEGO parts or sets). This includes links to Todd Lehman's AucZILLA page and Jason Mantor's LEGO Exchange.
Added a paragraph about the PCS Center for Enriched Learning (where students use Technic LEGO).
Added Stefan Maes's raytracing page and Jason Mantor's LEGO page to my list of LEGOmaniacs' pages.
Added a paragraph about the MIT Media Lab (where programmable LEGO bricks are being created), with links to some of their WWW pages.
Added a paragraph about the student LEGO projects at the Blake School, with a link to their WWW pages.
Added Johan Fabry to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added Jim Files to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added the LEGO mobile robot at the University of South Florida to my list of ``Models by other people.''
Added an annotated index of the ``uploads'' directory to my index of the FTP archive.
Added Richard Bingle, Ricardo David, and Mike Steele to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Incorporated some additions to the roll call that were recently posted to rec.toys.lego.
Steve Rojo contributed several new roll call entries, and I added them to my roll call summary,
Put the nearly complete roll call summary on the server.
Added Holly Kilheffer to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Reformatted my top-level listing of my own models:
Added a number of new images of models by Jane and Polly Karr:
Added David Small to my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Updated my list of LEGOmaniacs, mostly by adding the following four people:
Added Zachary Benz's LEGO page to its place in my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added xer0 and his conflict simulation game to their place in my list of LEGOmaniacs.
Added Joe Lauher's blue crane to its place in the section on ``models by other people.''
In the description of the FTP archive, added a link to the new location of the catalog images that formerly were in the archive.
Added a pointer to my top-down index of the FTP archive to its place in my list of other LEGO resources.
Removed the pointer to my index of the scanned images in the FTP archives; the top-down index provides that link instead.
Added a pointer to the hypertext version of the rec.toys.lego FAQ to my description of the news group.
Added a pointer to the plain-text version of the rec.toys.lego FAQ to my description of the news group.
Moved most of the discussion of my own models to a set of pages separate from the home page of this resource.
Added numerous new sub-sections to the discussion of my models (adding new hypertext pages), containing many new images of original LEGO models.
Added two new views of my sports car, with an opening trunk and hood added.
Created a new section (and a new page) featuring images of models by my daughters.
Added reference and link to my annotated index of scanned images in the FTP archive. (This has been superseded.)
Added Joe Lauher's Construction Toy Home Page to its place in my list of other Web resources.