I had a couple of reasons to look through some of my old experiments lately. The funny thing was, it took me quite a while to find the URL to the old lab. Turned out to be something “obvious” like http://www.bit-101.com/base.html.
To make it a bit easier, and a bit more visible, permanently, I created a page right here that embeds the main SWF. Now you can see all the old crap that made me famous. 🙂 Just click on the tab at the top of this page, labelled, ingeniously enough, “Old BIT-101 Lab”.
Also, I’ve been thinking of starting up a new lab again. In the past few months I’ve refused to do any side contract or freelance work, which has resulted in me being less burned out. And since starting at Infrared5 and working on some very cool projects, I’ve been more inspired and have been doing a lot more experimenting, as you can see from some of my recent posts. I have a bunch of cool stuff I am going to be releasing soon, timed with my talk at FiTC in Toronto this April. After that, we’ll see about firing up a new lab.
Very nice Keith, you labs code is a big inspiration. See you at FITC!
Great Stuff!
I pretty much love it all :).
Very inspiring.
I remember checking that thing every day as you added to it.
And I also remember never being able to find stuff when I wanted a second look at something, which became an excuse to go through them 1 by 1.
Yeah, I have the same problem. I guess back in 2001, I never conceived that it would grow so large. If I had, I woulda made some kind of indexing system.
Yes!!! I knew I wasn’t crazy! We used to always look at this lab in my old flash class a couple of years ago. I’d later tell people that would tell me about bit-101 “yeah, bit-101, wasn’t that the place that had a calendar with different daily flash experiments?”… I’d just get blank looks. Good to know I’m not crazy… and good to have this thing back. It’s cool to see what was possible with flash even years ago!
I just bought a book that strangely reminded me of this blog post, just to realize that Keith Peters is bit-101 🙂 . Thanx for sharing your knowledge!
Some of the stuff in there is downright amazing. Thanks for putting it back online!