About the site:

This site began back the nineties as a members page on AOL hawking a video game I was writing at the time (2MB of space). It was a single html page coupled with a jpg image. In 1999 I began attending USC and created a page on the school server. (50MB) I uploaded my first movie shortly after christmas break early in 2000 and made a couple of subpages to handle the movie code. Around this time I purchased a domain and pointed it to the school server. I added a navigation graphic to the top of the pages. Keeping all the subpages in sync became a pain so I moved to flat files + a server-side include (Apache SSI) for the graphic.

I put up a couple more movies before running out of space on the server. I asked for more space from the school admins, who said no. I ordered my first dedicated hosting account and moved my content there (333MB). By this time, I had a dozen movies or so. Keeping track of the data on various servers become difficult, so I created a mysql/php backend to simplify managing the content and a CSS stylesheet/theme to handle the appearance.

I ran out of space/bandwidth on that server, so the next implementation was to move half the movies to a subdomain on another site (2 * 333MB). Meanwhile, I opened my first blogger account to simplify updating the news page.

In 2003 I switched to the creative commons license and unified my stylesheets. In 2005 I added rss/podcasting to the movies section with a Miro feed. In 2006 I switched from blogger to wordpress for the text portion of the site. I slowly started consolidating all the previous content into a single database with a few hundred entries. In 2007, having merged all my old sites together to a single account (1GB), I upgraded the theme to the look you see today.

In 2008 I switched from Sorenson3 to H.264 for the movies. This allowed me to create an interface for the iphone/ipod and later add a flash frontend for people without quicktime. I also unified/cleaned up the movie/sql code. In 2009 I became an iTunes podcast. I upgraded the server to a business account which was 2GB, then upgraded to 10GB, then 50GB. In 2010 I flipped on a html5 frontend and removed my legacy hacks for older browsers (read: IE).

Bandwidth Milestones:

2001: 1GB
2002: 10GB
2005: 100GB
2009: 1TB
2010: 10TB
April 2010: 20TB