TI-Story moves to its own site

[DJ Omnimaga]

TI-Story, which started as a sub-section of TI-Basic Developer, has now moved to its own website: http://tistory.wikidot.com/!

As mentionned in a previous news, this is a wiki meant to gather all the information about the history of the TI community from 1990 until today. So far it contains information about most site that have existed in the past two decades, along with a list of programmers and community members who have contributed in some ways, plus miscellaneous information about notable events, ranging from key factoring to site wars.

It is not finished, since not everyone knows about everything, and if you know something about the TI community that is missing there, you are free to add it if it's notable enough. Basically, it's like Wikipedia, but for the calculator community.

[mob-i-l]

I was rather active in the earliest TI-calculator community and some traces of this can be seen here:
http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/lut/calc-ti.txt

This was first in the GRAPH-TI mailing list and then in the UseNet Newsgroup:
news:bit.listserv.calc-ti
(There was also a bit.listserv.graph-ti newsgroup but I think it was short lived.)

There was also some private correspondence.

I also have my website with old programs and one new for TI-calculators:
http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/ticalc.html

[DJ Omnimaga]

Heya and welcome here. Nice to see some older programmers around. Did/do you make any calculator games by the way?

As for Graph-TI I haven't heard of it, but I have heard a lot about calc-TI, although it was years before my time. I was mostly lurking back in 2001-2002 then in 2003 I started posting on various forums, such as UTI and MaxCoderz. I went on IRC later in 2005, although my visits there are sporadic since 2010.

By the way if you know of any big event that have occured back when you were active in newsgroups that isn't listed on TI-Story, it seems that guests can edit pages right now, so feel free to add them.

On an off-topic note, does anyone know how to figure out the URL of a wiki logo? I was wondering since I wanted to put it in the news post but it seems the link is hidden, encrypted or something.

[Darl181]

On an off-topic note, does anyone know how to figure out the URL of a wiki logo? I was wondering since I wanted to put it in the news post but it seems the link is hidden, encrypted or something.

It's in the css, and got it with firebug
http://tistory.wdfiles.com/local--files/home/tistorylogo.png

[DJ Omnimaga]

Thanks. I tried Opera's Dragonfly, but I still couldn't spot it.

[burr]

@DJ_O: Thanks for making a news post. I've been spending all of my time merging the site contents, so I completely forgot to give you guys (and Cemetech) an update.

@mob-i-l: I actually came across your site when I was researching Graph-TI and Calc-TI Like everyone else here (except you), I wasn't around for that part of the TI community, so the best I could do was read about it and try to piece everything together. Speaking of which, would you mind looking through the timeline page on TI Story, and filling out some more of the early events that happened in the TI community? I would also be interested in hearing about what the TI community was like then. Honestly, I'm really excited to see you on this site... I feel like a little kid again

[Deep Thought]

Awesome to see TI Story open. It really deserves its own site

[DJ Omnimaga]

I wonder if Fryedsoft is still around? THat guy joined the TI community in 1993 and maybe he could fill some sections out if he have the time. Also Travis from ticalc has been around since 1994 or so, if I remember.

EDIT: Did TI-Files really have 42 staff at once or were every staff listed?? Maybe we need some rules about consistency so for example, only founders and final staff are listed or retired staff are flagged as retired on the history page of the site. I would probably have to search hard through Omnimaga staff to make sure I don't miss any retired staff, though, because since the site had strong policies regarding staff activity and had a lot of staff in the first place, it had many.

Also how do we upload images on pages? Because the main logo shown in the summary is the one from almost 11 years ago and we used the following one since March 2004:



In fact, in calculator programs this one was used since 2003, although the fonts were slightly different.

[JamesV]

It's really cool to see a site like this developing that will chronicle the TI community history

[burr]

I wonder if Fryedsoft is still around? THat guy joined the TI community in 1993 and maybe he could fill some sections out if he have the time. Also Travis from ticalc has been around since 1994 or so, if I remember.

EDIT: Did TI-Files really have 42 staff at once or were every staff listed?? Maybe we need some rules about consistency so for example, only founders and final staff are listed or retired staff are flagged as retired on the history page of the site. I would probably have to search hard through Omnimaga staff to make sure I don't miss any retired staff, though, because since the site had strong policies regarding staff activity and had a lot of staff in the first place, it had many.

Also how do we upload images on pages? Because the main logo shown in the summary is the one from almost 11 years ago and we used the following one since March 2004:



In fact, in calculator programs this one was used since 2003, although the fonts were slightly different.

I actually emailed Ed Fry and Travis Evans about two months ago, but I didn't get any response. I suppose I could always email them again

I simply listed all of the staff of TI-Files on the page; trying to classify people as retired or final staff would be quite difficult, as TI-Files had a rather high staff turn-over rate and I don't know enough to make that judgement call. Creating that page actually took several hours of researching with ticalc.org, the Wayback Machine, and googling; it was also made more difficult because of the robots.txt file that prevents the Wayback Machine from archiving/accessing a site. I agree that there needs to be some guidelines created for consistency, but that is really only possible if you have a group of people helping...

You can upload an image by hovering over the other tools button on the top of the page, and then clicking the manage files button in the dropbox.

It's really cool to see a site like this developing that will chronicle the TI community history

It's really cool to see that you're still around the TI community

[DJ Omnimaga]

Another idea might be to bug Travis on IRC. He uses tev as nickname. And I see about TI-Files. I guess maybe someone who knows who was staff before the closing could sort them out. In Omni's case, the old board had a section listing all the former staff that actually contributed something to the site, but the new board doesn't have one, so it will probably make it hard to remember.

And thanks for the info about uploading.

[Sorunome]

Cool! Finally I can look at the ti history!

[Jonius7]

On an off-topic note, does anyone know how to figure out the URL of a wiki logo? I was wondering since I wanted to put it in the news post but it seems the link is hidden, encrypted or something.

It's in the css, and got it with firebug
http://tistory.wdfiles.com/local--files/home/tistorylogo.png

Oh I thought you could just right click on the picture and choose open link in new tab.
As for Firebug for FF, chrome has the javascript console which I've found immensely useful and similar to Firebug

I also put information in the Jason Ho page (both Jason Ho's will split pages later if possible)

[Deep Thought]

Oh I thought you could just right click on the picture and choose open link in new tab.

Only when it's an image element, not when it's a background image.

As for Firebug for FF, chrome has the javascript console which I've found immensely useful and similar to Firebug

I think Firebug was meant as a set of web developer tools similar to the WebKit console (which Chrome uses) for Firefox, which hadn't had its own complete set until Fx 11 (the current version).

[DJ Omnimaga]

Oh I thought you could just right click on the picture and choose open link in new tab.

Only when it's an image element, not when it's a background image.

That's one reason that would make me switch back to IE6. (which allowed you to get the URL of a background by right-clicking it)