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Join the Pawty at the Activity Center this October 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Free Anti-Rabies Vaccination drive.
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Thursday - February 21, 2002 - I was busy setting up a dedicated server that would host our site for about 5 years. Fresh from a not so pleasant experience with a shared hosting company, I decided to take the plunge and leased a dedicated server for a site that initially didn't need one... despite the fact that we almost could not afford it. This at times have caused me to choose between buying milk for our kids or keep the site alive, a couple of times I decided to pay for the server. Decisions that I am proud to have made. So there I was preparing mySQL, PHP, and Apache... things that were too cryptic for this newbie back then. I had to prepare the server for phpBB, the first bulletin board system that powered our site. Sleepless? Definitely! But Galadriel was there to cheer me on and comfort me.
Friday - February 22, 2002 - After a sleepless night, the server was now ready to host its first site. But first, allow me to give you a little bit more history. Sometime back in the year 2000, we had actually already established the foundation and the groundwork of this site. Seeing the need for Cebuanos to have their own place online, we decided to come up with a name that is universal in our country that means one of the following: talk, chat, or story... just in case we'd expand to get traffic from all over... and we did. So we decided to use iSTORYA. We put up the first iteration of iSTORYA on a shared web hosting provider using Ikonboard, it was slow and was already outdated. A year after, I decided that we should get a faster server and a better platform. I didn't renew our subscription with the shared hosting provider and began to map out an ideal system for our community. It took around two months to come up with a decision and a plan so that we can have a better community website. So we booked the server, prepared it for our needs, and deployed the whole system. An ambitious and expensive project at that time.
So now I look back and I see myself 10 years ago. If I’d like to tell something to that old me, I would say, “Go on, buddy… It will all be worth it..”
And indeed, it was all worth it.
10 years ago on this very same day, February 22, iSTORYA.NET was brought online.
This was the start of what would become a life changing journey, a start of a continuous learning opportunity. A start of meaningful experiences, and most importantly, a start of lasting relationships.
iSTORYA.NET's Logo Evolution:
old school iSTORYA.NET logo 1
old school iSTORYA.NET logo 2
old school iSTORYA.NET logo 3
iSTORYA.NET Logo 2012
Keep posted for BeoR's next article about our tagline, Reaching Out, Bridging Gaps..
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by: Gerald "BeoR" Yuvallos
Take a walk down memory lane as this column to how iSTORYA.NET came to be. It talks about the site's challenges, activities or any other things regarding iSTORYA.NET. This is written by no less than the founding online father himself, BeoR.
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