This section, starting October 2001, will track the development of The World's Largest Saturniidae Site.
Membership continues to grow. I am constantly upgrading the site with new pictures and information. It may become increasingly difficult (time consuming) to send out individual newsletters so newsletters will be posted here, hopefully on a timely basis, the fifteenth or sixteenth of each month.
Generally, I have been updating the most recent newsletter as new information and images arrive. If you really want to stay on top of special opportunities, you should check the current newsletter periodically.
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A bit of history:
I started using the internet as a marketing tool for Saturniidae
livestock in the late 1990's. I opened an email account with
Sympatico and got five mgb of free webspace.
That space was quickly filled with pictures borrowed from others and information files
that I created. People like Scott Henninger, Bill Welsh, Bruce Walsh,
Scott Smith, Pete Honl, John Campbell, etc., were very kind in
letting me use images from their already existing sites. I wove text
around the images in html format and posted them for others to enjoy.
Always interested in high quality images of live moths and larvae, I
contacted Leroy Simon and he agreed to send me slides to scan. His
images are beautiful. I scanned the slides
Leroy sent to me (using a friend's scanner), and saved them on my own
harddrive and on diskettes which I sent to Leroy along with his
slides.
With all the images I was acquiring, I no longer had sufficient
webspace with my Sympatico account.
I spoke with friends who had email accounts who were not intending to
use their webspace and I created additional sites entitled
Mexican Saturniidae, European Saturniidae,
African Saturniidae, Austalian Saturniidae, Asian Saturniidae,
Butterflies of Prince Edward Island, etc.,
on space available to me through these other accounts.
My oldest son taught me a great deal about internet displays and html
format. He also provided me with free additional webspace available to him
through his work.
Frustrating Times!
With all the webspace available to me, I spent much time typing and
organizing files, uploading and submitting website URL's to search
engines. Things were going quite well until....
One of my friends moved away and the email space/account
(Ceratocampinae and Sphingidae) was lost to me.
Another friend (elderly couple) found the phone to be more user
friendly and personal and sold computer and discontinued account
(Mexican Saturniidae Site).
My son switched jobs and lost the email accounts and webspace
available to him (Asian, Australian, South American and African
Saturniidae Sites)
Fortunately I still had files on my own hard drive, but all of the
URL submissions were now invalid. Links I had exchanged with others
had to be updated and I had to find new webspace for my files.
There were several "DOT COM" companies offering free webspace, but
their advertising windows had to be displayed for their "paying"
customers.
I began using TRIPOD, BIZLAND and two or three others. Things seemed
to be back together again, and then the "bottom fell out" of the
"DOT COM" industry.
I think it was only six months after uploading files to the new host
servers and resubmitting URLs to search engines that the "DOT COM"
webspace was no longer free. I felt I had been
betrayed by the companies offering the "free space" which, after
countless hours of file work, uploads and URL submissions on my part,
suddenly required a monthly rental fee. I let them know exactly how
I felt.
Bizland seemed to have the best offer at the time so I created
The World's Largest Saturniidae Site membership club on
webspace rented from Bizland. I was also so busy on the computer
all the time that there were conflicts with children and spouse
over the phone line being tied up with my computer usage. Hence a
highspeed server account (much more expensive) that allows phone and
computer to be going at same time, unlimited airtime, and also has
much shorter upload times for large files (pictures) became the
operational mode here. Hence the the one-time-life-time
registration fee.
I chose kurthi.htm for the end of my URL to recognize Kurt Himmelbauer who gave me some early encouragement and insights with
scanning techniques during some of the most frustrating times. Kurt also sent me some outstanding images.
I have made many new contacts along the way. The additional photographs and information supplied by Scott Smith, Chris Conlan,
Bernhard Wenczel, Bernhard Jost, Bob Vuattoux (hybrids), Kirby Wolfe (extensive and beautiful), Bob Jensens, Thibaud Decaens, etc., really make the
site what it is today.
I continue to devote much time and money to maintenance and development of the site.
I still maintain a greatly expanded Sphingidae of the Americas website on space rented from Bizland. I also utilize that space for
the recently created (2002) Catocala Website.
I retire from teaching in June of 2003. It is my hope that someday the site will display all of the world's Saturniidae. I am very
thankful to Clive Pratt for his sponsorship of the site, to all the members, especially those who submit images and articles or help with
identifications, to my two oldest children who purchased my computer equipment as a family present (sale of livestock helped to put them both
through university), to my parents and to my wife.
As of this writing, December 2010, the WLSS occupies over 750mgb of space and now resides on space which I rent from
1 and 1 web hosting. I have been using 1 and 1 for the last few years. I also maintain a backup of the WLSS on space rented from Bizland, which
hosts my Sphingidaae of the Americas website and my North American Catocala website.
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