Introduction

This is a repost of a tiny portion of my original website: I published some of this in my poetry book - see "buy poetry" on the banner menu on my main blog here - here are all travels & travails. 

Note: as this is a set-piece, posts are in chronological order - oldest at top, the reverse of default settings - to follow sequentially as in the book.

Find also old poetry & writings from the original website, some of which are in the book. 

Background [Last ¦ Next]

First posted before the internet existed, on a City of Calgary fiber optic network in 1986.

 First posted on the internet in 1996 in Dallas using a simple template that mirrored the original page. In the middle was an animation, no longer visible, just for fun.

Then signed on to a Calgary ISP called toc.ca, which I kept until 2022. I used an HTML template and cribbed an index layout from the web. 

In 2002,  created a website also from a template and mapped it to www.azolnai.ca. It was my professional presence with tips & techniques. That was went away with my ISP ending 2022.

In 2009, created a blog to chronicle my ongoing VGI work (volunteered geographic information, Wikipedia). It is now mapped to blog.zolnai.ca now on GoDaddy ISP.

It is ongoing to this day, although I now quit socials. ou can see the rest of my web presence on the banner menu in the desktop version of my blog here:

Travels

I posted on YouTube my travels thru 134 cities in 32 countries from 1957 to 2016. That is because I quit arcgis.com for reasons explained here. 

In 2006 I posted this statically on Google Maps using the now defunct Java API - the new version geared for mobiles never worked for me - in fact I linked it to the posts on the original website! This is fact the map on the cover of my poetry book atop this post.

As an aside, I even created an interactive website where readers could add their own local jokes to thos I had. I got no response as I wasn't pushing it out to socials yet (see here & here) :

I also helped the templiers.org - Belgian webmestre whose website I also hleped translate to English - greate and initial Google map of Commanderies, update of which is here in French only.

I still have a copy of ArcGIS (esri.com flagship product) c/o Esri thank you - I've used them since 1996, was industry manager there in the noughties, created story maps (ResearchGate) and kept some on my developper account here, and I still create maps this year (look for this year's posts on blog.zolnai.ca... In fact you can see many maps on my YouTube channel here!

Life & Work stories

My old website posted my travels from 1957 to 2001. I'm simply reposting those here. I used then a simple indexed HTML cribbed on the internet in 1996: see ye olde style!

I posted my travails to 2000 starting here:

I'll simply follow the same grid only in blog form, minus the links to stale webpages. [Next]