From 1994 to 2003, this message welcomed people into my website. This time has now past.

The original World of J is closed and a new one is being constructed. If you were trying to get to specific content, check the links below -- what you were looking for may have moved.

The only interesting non-weather content from the World of J that has been maintained are the most infamous pages such as...

• 1. The Sigh Factor, a spoof of the PSI Factor website, one of the earliest (and most daring) website parodies.
• 2. The Dark Skies page because it was my best early web design and because that TV show was the greatest, and should have had a 20 year run...
• 3. The Robert Palmer Page and BBS / Discussion Board, which were widely indexed...
• 4. The The Crew page because the writers of the show found the page and thanked me for putting it up.
• 5. The CBBT (Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel) informational pages because this is the coolest piece of engineering on the East Coast.
• 6. The I-81 Conspiracy Corridor pages -- because the truth must me known.
• 7. Pictures of my Cats - Often emailed, both new and old photos of my kitties are still available.
• 8. VMRL - The greatest web technology that never was. Companies as large as Excite had designed 3-d search engines in this language.
• 9. And of course the Net wouldn't be the same without the J-Cam Archives from one of the first personal webcams on the web (yes that's me in front of my UNIX workstation at my first job in 1995-6).

HISTORY:

The World of J was conceived in 1994 during the Mosaic heydays (I remember receiving the original email from Marc Andreessen at Mcom announcing the release of "Mosaic Netscape 0.9 Beta".)

If you don't know what that means, you're a Net youngster. I've been on the Net since 1991 and I count myself amongst the web pioneers when the presence expanded in late 1994. Back then, everything was black-on-white-text, left justified and images had no "border=0" option. It, of course, became better quickly as we launched through the days of VRML and Netscape's heydays. Just for fun you can see the sitemap which described some of the technologies prevalent in 1995-1997, for example VMRL.

The World of J was hosted originally hosted at www.Atms.Unca.edu, my alma mater, then in Fall 1995 it moved with me to WebPress.Net, which was then a division of Interpath, which was then a division of Capitol Broadcasting Company, where I worked as a web developer. In 1997 when I moved from North Carolina to Pennsylvania, the site moved to SimpleNet.com, an inexpensive web hosting firm, under the moniker Cybervox.Org. When Simplenet went out of business in 1999, I moved it to the WeatherMatrix site. In 2003, I deleted most of the content (except what is listed below), as I was running out of disk space on the WeatherMatrix server. In 2005, when my company WeatherMatrix was sold, I moved all the "J" content to Cybervox.Org's server of its own.

I'll try to find some of the really early versions of my website to shock you with... sometime. Meanwhile, all that is left is a screen capture of the last major release of the site, which was in 1997 (see below). The site took on hundreds of thousands of hits and was very popular in the mid 1990's as a place for X-Files fans and weather enthusiasts. In the 1997 design I used a state-of-the-art digital clock and hit counter (notice on the screen capture below its lack of Y2K compatability :)) and a Windows 3.11 version of some 3-d software to make some really impressive 3-d images for the site.

Why did I stop the World of J? After getting out of college in '95 I got heavily involved in my own organization, WeatherMatrix, which grew out of CASI, which you will see front and center in the screen capture of the 1997 J's World. After years with no significant updates to the site, much of it fell into disarray when Yahoo Web Hosting took over Simplenet and changed URL's. When I discontinued the Yahoo Web Hosting in favor of more reliable, robust servers at Pair.com that host WeatherMatrix.Net, I decided that the site's time was up and there was very little useful information still left on it. The domain Cybervox.Org now redirects to WeatherMatrix and few portions of the site are still online. I did upload the old sitemap in case you're curious what was here at one time.

As far as weather content... Still alive shall be the archives of the BBS's and weather content and lists that were on the server (and well indexed after 9 years I might add :)). There is a VRML Thunderstorm in the VMRL section. If you need any other weather content, please consult WeatherMatrix which is the fun but life-consuming project that caused the premature death of the World of J :)

If you really need access to some of the old content from J's World (see sitemap) and you came here from a search engine or link, I apologize. You can try the "Internet Archive Wayback Machine" which has most of the site on record. If that doesn't work, If you want to contact me at WeatherMatrix I can attempt to pull the files for you, but some are tucked away on various CD's and most are not rich in content. If you are looking for weather content, contact me at WeatherMatrix for those types of items.

Jesse Ferrell, June 1, 2003 (Updates to Above From 6/18/05 in Italics)

SCREENCAPTURE OF OLD SITE SHOWN BELOW: