Welcome to a tour through the first ten years of the Arbor Heights World Wide Web site. This page is set up primarily to chronicle the growth of our site. It is hoped visitors may gain an appreciation for the growth of web site development and for the growth of school web sites. For those of you who have visited our site frequently over these past ten years, have fun on a little web trip down Memory Lane!
Notes on the links: Each hypertext linked date will take you to the Arbor Heights Home Page as it appeared on that date, html errors and all! Some of the links from these early home pages may not work, especially the imagemaps.
Navigation: You can jump back and forth to and from this page and select the home pages you want to see. Or you can take the whole tour using the navigation arrows at the bottom of each home page. There are nine home pages on the tour.

August 14, 1994
This was our first home page (well, you have to start somewhere). Ours was the 9th or 10th elementary school with a web site. The primary focus of the home page at that time was the Earth Day Groceries Project. This page, and the others until the summer of 1995, were all written and maintained on a 386-33, 4mb RAM, 110mb HD computer using a 14,400 bps modem for file uploads to the server. The browsers used to check this page were NCSA Mosaic, Cello, and Lynx - Netscape and Internet Explorer weren't around yet.

October, 1994
This was how the site looked through most of the 1994 - 1995 school year. Oh, a few little icons were added or removed from time to time....

January, 1995
Tables, transparent images, and background colors became a hot thing, so here's pretty much the same version using those features. This was an alternate home page link, as it turned out many browsers still did not support tables.

April, 1995
A visitor counter and background color were added. This was the last version of the "old" home page. The counter shows the current number of visitors.

June, 1995
Here was the biggest single change in the two year history of our home page. An imagemap was introduced to replace all the text links with icons. This is the version that Bill Gates used in The Road Ahead. Most of the imagemap links work.

November, 1995
Added a cloudy background and "Best of the Net Nominee" images. Imagemap links not working here.

January, 1996
Added a client-side imagemap, added a text-only page, rearranged the icons, added our Guestbook, changed some text colors, added a background sound, and added the scrolling (Internet Explorer) "Link of the Week".

December, 1996
This seasonal look sported the smaller imagemap and a white background - major changes first seen in June of 1996 (below). It also included a seasonal background sound. The page is often given a similar treatment for other holidays (Halloween, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day, etc.).

June, 1996 - Present
Today's look.... This is our current home page. This is pretty much the same page that is used in the paperback version of The Road Ahead. Some icons have been changed, and many links have been updated. Improvements to the web site over the past six years have been primarily in content, with the addition of many documents and writings. The home page has remained relatively unchanged during this period.
To take a look at changes documented on a daily basis for the first five years, be sure to visit the "What's New" page. Choose any month since September, 1995 to get an idea of what went into maintaining the site.  This was discontinued in 1999 - although regular updates continue.