Sliced Apple Inter/Intranet Site History

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This site was originally just a server specifications page for the PM 8500 Specifications linked off a private Video on Demand page I was working on, largely to figure how easy and useful such a thing would be and it grew from there. The Video on Demand page, the original server specification page "PM 8500 Specifications" (which quickly became the home page), and beginnings of PM 8500 Project page was born sometime in December 2003 (or possibly earlier), likely 12/15/03. This project also including an internal web site and pages for a video security system, access to all the technical resources inside the house, and a site for my professional business with the beginnings of an integrated billing system.

In December 2003 and January 2004 the PM 8500 Project page was expanded quickly. Slower additions trickled in after that with a large amount of additions and clean up occurring in March and April 2004. The Recent Activities and Site Map pages were added on 3/23/04 (with some delay possibly for the Site Map) and after that the PM 8500 Project page saw only small change as updates to Recent Activities continued and the site became more generalized. The server ran OS X 10.3 Panther for the original site and most of the subsequent site expansions.

In April 2004 the site went public at slicedapple.ath.cx using a domain on DynDNS.

A major revamp of the home page (the original PM 8500 Specifications page) was done on 8-19 and 8-20-2004 with changes so it would more accommodate its home page role, and it got the addition of a site wide (more or less) navigation bar. The My Apples page was added at this time along with this History of this Site page.

The Beige G3 Project page was added to the website on 7/31/04 and was an expansion of the Read Me “Read Me –Beige G3 Quirks” written during the Beige G3 project and authored around 7/27/04 or perhaps several days earlier.

The iBook Bluetooth Upgrades page was added in November 2004 and has expanded with additional technical content.

A generalized software Downloads area was also added in November 2004 with the release of my first public freeware release, Launch KDE. During this time a large portion of the site was also re-authored (at least partially) in Nvu and that shift still continues.  Because of some downtime as I traveled in December 2004 the entire site was copied to my .Mac account as a mirror and backup.

Mid and late November 2004 saw the addition of the Counter and Guestbook as CGI's.

The first part of 2005 had continuation of the slow cleanup for older pages but mainly involved the addition and expansion of an enlarged software area now called NMS Solfware and/or Sliced Apple (NMS) with the software area expanded from a single released product page to a formal page with sub-links (the software company was and still is mostly a jest).

May of 2005 saw some additional reorganization with addition and organizing of contents related to Legacy Hardware and OS X on Legacy Hardware, and saw the server updated from running OS X 10.3 to OS X10.4.  New technical guides were also added to a sister Hardware Modifications area.  It was hoped that the new organization would make the site more useful for visitors. At this point the site was becoming a legacy Mac site.

On 12/26/2006 the Beige G3 Upgrade page and the How to Build Power Signal Inverter for Soft Power page were updated to Nvu as the site composer and a page was added for the SETi@home Team SlicedApple.

The site was then partially transitioned to DreamWeaver 8.

The site then went down sometime in 2007 as I explored other aspects of my life, and remained down for 18 years.

The site was brought back up to a limited extent late 11/2025 but hosted on my 1999 PowerMac G4 (the PM8500 being down for restoration) and then linked to the a new slicedapple.org domain early 12/2025, as the original slicedapple.ath.cx was no longer available. The VOD server was not re-activated as in 2025 it has no value. At this point the plan is for the site to hold all the original content (for the limited interest it might serve the legacy Macintosh community) and to document me and my son's attempt to revive the site, the PM 8500 server, and various old computers of mine.

Also in 12/2025 the existing global menu bar (where used) was updated to have editable graphics (the original templates being lost), be a little larger, and to integrate with a new page template to make adding new pages easier, and updated CSS to play better with small screens. The menu bar and site was also modified to add a blog for my son, and to make the site more generalized in regards to legacy Apple projects. All of the front facing pages (such as those linked directly from the menu bar) were copied to the new template. That same month a new site-wide Perl based counter was written and deployed that tracks visits to each page individually, along with the site globally, and is auto configuring. This counter was added to every page and any existing counter was replaced.

The site is now being authored mainly using the original Nvu on the legacy PowerMac G4 and with Seamonkey's Composer on modern Mac hardware.

Currently the site consists of 65+ separately linked on-site pages.  Many pages on the public site are quite long in length (such at the PM 8500 Project page) and few if any are less than one screen in content. The 8500 Project page alone sub-divides within its singe page into 17 sections and itself has over a dozen links to other sub-pages (most or all of them unique to it) along with an equal number of off site links, plus some links to pages not yet created.

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