Happy Birthday to BIT-101!

On this day in 2001 (overshadowed by some other, more serious events πŸ™ ) the DNS servers acknowledged a new entry in their collective databases, and for the first time in the history of the entire universe, any man, woman or child could type the characters “bit-101.com” into a browser and see this very web site.

What a wild 7 years it’s been. I’d been “doing Flash” for a couple of years before that. Here was my previous site. Don’t laugh!

But BIT-101 was my Flash coming out party. I don’t want to sit here and brag about my accomplishments, but the things that have happened as a direct result of having this site up here have been beyond what I would have imagined when I pulled the trigger and somewhat reluctantly decided to cough up the big bucks for a new domain. All in all, the best $15 I’ve ever spent!

OK, you asked for it, here’s the kp web design intro: kpwebdesign

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21 Responses to Happy Birthday to BIT-101!

  1. Monokai says:

    Congrats!
    I see a “replay” button. Can we pretty please see that intro? πŸ™‚

  2. Flip182 says:

    Happy Birthday !!

  3. Campbell says:

    Complete with 2001’s tech music… nice πŸ™‚ Happy b’day bit-101

  4. eric dolecki says:

    Congratulations! You’re site was the first that made mathematics in Flash seem approachable to me, even after hanging with the Electrotank guys (namely Jobe Makar).

  5. Peter says:

    Congrats. Keep up the good work πŸ™‚ I love your ActionScript snippets and the 25 line contest.

  6. julien says:

    Happy Bday,
    Keep those ‘particles’ boucing around πŸ™‚

  7. Seb says:

    Happy Birthday!

    I’ve been inspired by your blog on many occasions, so thank you very much. I have decided to start my own, mainly to help people, but also as a reference for myself in the future.

    It’s more focussed on Papervision, and here it is: http://shallax.com:3333/blog/

    Thank you πŸ™‚

  8. lunetta says:

    Congrats for the birthday and for the nice “vintage” flash intro :). One day people will look back and say “look how awesome those intros were in the early ’00s”

  9. Hugh Elliott says:

    Unfortunate timing, but fortuitous occurence. You’re a big inspiration.

    Congratulations, Keith!

  10. nice – haven’t seen a skip intro button for a while. Happy B-Day!

  11. lenny says:

    happy bday. all the best for the next 7 years.

  12. cosmin says:

    Congrats and thanks for the cool stuff u’ve been sharing here all these years!
    Ahhh, guided animations, manual shape tweenings and letters fade in with resize…
    Reminds me of my own 2002 “Welcome to my home page” with “loading” and music.
    Boy oh boy those were the days πŸ™‚

  13. negush says:

    Happy Birthday, Keith!

    You made a lot of noobs happy with your posts. Keep up the great work !

  14. zeflasher says:

    I especially like the logo πŸ˜‰
    Congrats.

  15. Justin says:

    And what would the web do without you! Glad we have you around mate, happy domainday. I think KP Web design is as iconic as Tron by the way! x

  16. Happy Birthday 101,

    Thank you for you share with flash community…

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