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Redesign February 13th, 1999 (Visited 4069 times) Tags: academia, diku, fiction, Music, poetry, vw design

Redesigned the whole website to this spiffy new look! Also added:

• a bit of historical trivia to Gaming/Misc Writings/Scripting languages in Diku muds.
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• Roleplaying bardic verses under Writing/Poetry
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