This is a very special week!

5 Years ago today we launched our first version of this website!

That’s right – 5 years. I mean back then the Interweb was run off small Pentium1 boxes, silicon valley was still just sand, and Sarah and I had no idea how to make a website!

That’s right – out very first version of this site, despite being advanced for the time, is now the stuff that ridducle and embarrasment are made of.

Check out our very first version of this site!!!

Two years after this attempt, it was clear that this was not going to cut it in the world of mainstream internet. So we created LandofS-hane V2.0′.

This was the first version with a diary – and yes back then they were called diaries as the word Blog just hadn’t been invented yet!

Anyway, after moving through the about version 2.8 of LandofS-hane, I decided it was time to move onwards and upwards. The main reason for this was the unbearable load times of the javascript based design. Now not being willing to sacrafice any of the functionality I had, but not being able to use client side scripts (javascripts were killing the page load times) it was time to learn Server side Scripting…

So the current website S2.co.nz is built entirely in PHP and MySQL databases…

However, given another year has passed by in the life of this site I have decided its time for a new face lift. Progress is slow but watch this space over the next month or so 🙂

Anyway, give the momentous occasion that this 5th Birthday is, this week shall be spent celebrating. Keep your eyes open for some more exciting things this week.

Shane and Sarah

P.S. Thats right, this update didn’t expalin Maxwells visit to hospital either – oh well, a bit of suspense never hurt anyone! More later.