Polsson's WebWorld - What's New?

2007 April 1

• Added United Kingdom Coins: Type Collecting pages.

2007 February 11

• Added Swedish Coins: Type Collecting pages.

2007 February 6

• New and improved climate change web page, with notes from reading scientific articles.

2007 January 11

• Added Australian Coins: Type Collecting pages.

2006 November 2

• Added climate change web page.

2006 September 3

• Added Karl's new web page for Star Wars.

2006 August 28

• Added new Chronology of IBM personal computers.

2006 August 25

• Added new Chronology of Apple Computer personal computers.
• Added new Chronology of Nintendo video games.
• Added new Chronology of Sega video games.
• Added new Chronology of Disneyland.
• Added new Chronology of Walt Disney World.
• Added new Chronology of Canadian NCLT coins.

2006 August 2

• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Video Games.

2006 June 28

• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Added Pop Culture references pages for Disney, video games, personal computers, and Corvettes.

2006 June 5

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins, and added mini timeline.

2006 June 1

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.

2006 May

• Added Google AdSense ads.

2006 April 29

• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.

2006 April 2

• Updated Chronology of A&W Root Beer, and split into Canada and USA timelines.

2006 April 1

• Updated Chronology of Sweden.
• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.

2006 March 1

• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2006 February 4

• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.

2006 January 6

• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2005 November 30

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.

2005 November 11

• Updated Chronology of Amiga Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Commodore 64 Computer.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2005 September 3

• Updated Chronology of A & W Root Beer.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2005 August 1

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2005 July 1

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.

2005 April 29

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.

2005 March 31

• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.

2005 February 10

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2005 January 15

• Updated several timelines, added better information about paying or donating.

2004 November 20

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Amiga Computers.

2004 May 30

• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.

2004 January 31

• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2004 January 17

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company. Lots of recent film updates, completed italicizing titles.

2003 November 2

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.
• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Commodore 64 Computer.

2003 October 17

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.

2003 September 14

• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.

2003 August 1

• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2003 July 17

• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.

2003 June 5

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.

2003 April 12

• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company. Includes "all" info up to end of 1929, but events prior to about 1923 are abbreviated.

2003 March 20

• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2003 March 8

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.

2003 February 21

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.

2002 December 29

• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Updated Chronology of A & W Root Beer.

2002 September 20

• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company. Now includes all info up to 1928.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.

2002 September 4

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.

2002 July 19

• Major update to Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.

2002 April 19

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2002 March 18

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2002 February 23

• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Workstation Computers.
• Updated Chronology of the Commodore 64 Computer.
• Updated Chronology of Amiga Computers.
• Updated Chronology of Video Game Systems.

2002 February 16

• Updated Chronology of Canadian Coins.

2002 January 21

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.

2002 January 6

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.

2001 December 3

• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2001 November 22

• Totally re-worked the A&W for sale page, making it Polsson's Garage Sale, created from a custom database, and using Island Net's inBASKET web scripting gadgets.

2001 November 3

• Updated all the computer timelines.

2001 October 21

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers, mainly adding the italicized notes with certain events.

2001 October 16

• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Changed content of PC timeline to include only events from 1947 to 1976, with a note that 1977-date must be purchased.

2001 October 8

• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.

2001 August 16

• Added new Chronology of the Commodore 64 Computer.
• Added new Chronology of Amiga Computers.

2001 August 13

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Changed content of Corvettes timeline to include only events from 1951 to 1958, with a note that 1959-date must be purchased.

2001 July 21

• Updated Chronology of Sweden.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.

2001 July 20

• Updated and reformatted list of American A & W restaurants.

2001 June 29

• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2001 May 9

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2001 March 1

• Updated Chronology of Corvettes.
• Updated Chronology of Sweden.

2001 February 22

• Updated Chronology of World War II.

2001 January 24

• Added Chronology of Handheld Computers.
• Added Chronology of Workstation Computers.

2001 January 14

• Updated Chronology of Chevrolet Corvettes.

2001 January 5

• Added Chronology of Video Game Systems.
• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of Personal Computers.
• Simplified timeline index page, removing links.
• General housecleaning of all timelines.

2000 December 16

• Various updates to many timelines.

2000 November 5

• Updated Chronology of the Walt Disney Company.
• Updated Chronology of World War II.
• Updated and renamed Chronology of Canadian Coins.
• Changed content of Canadian Coins timeline to include only events from 1842 to 1899, with a note that 1900-date must be purchased.

2000 October 17

• Updated and renamed Chronology of Personal Computers.

2000 October 13

• Changed Disney timeline name to "Chronology of the Walt Disney Company".
• Changed content of Disney timeline to include only events from 1923 to 1928, with a note that 1928-date must be purchased.

2000 August 5

• Changed World War II timeline name to "Chronology of World War II".
• Changed content of World War II timeline to include only events up to 1940, with a note that 1941-date must be purchased.

2000 August 3

• Added new timeline: Sweden.
• Updated timelines: Corvettes, Disney, microcomputers, World War II.

2000 July 1

• Updated timelines: Corvettes, Disney, Canadian coins, microcomputers.

2000 June 4

• Update of most timelines.

2000 March 29

• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.
• Reduced size of Corvette timeline to a basic summary.

2000 February 29

• Reduced size of Disney timeline to a basic summary.

2000 February 14

• Slightly altered the format of the coins, computers, Disney, Corvettes and WWII timelines, adding a table of pages available at top and bottom of each page. Also moved each timeline completely into separate directories.
• Reduced size of World War II timeline to a basic summary.
• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

2000 January 9

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

2000 January 8

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1999 December 29

• Major update to Mug Shots. Added title image to major pages, with clickable buttons leading to six main features. Incorporated the for sale section here as well.

1999 December 2

• Updated World War II timeline.

1999 October 27

• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1999 October 14

• Reduced size of microcomputer timeline to a basic summary.

1999 October 2

• Updated info in the Disney timeline.

1999 September 27

• Updated Canadian A & W restaurant listings, giving it a new format.

1999 September 5

• Updated World War II timeline.

1999 July 28

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1999 July 10

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline with info from 50 additional sources.

1999 May 2

• Updated World War II timeline.

1999 April 15

• Updated info in the Disney timeline.
• Updated A & W restaurant listings.

1999 March 19

• Updated A & W Root Beer timeline.
• Added lists of known operating A & W Restaurants, worldwide.
• Reworked listing of American A & W Root Beer mugs.

1999 February 15

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1999 February 7

• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1999 January 31

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1999 January 2

• Update to Canadian A & W Root Beer mugs listing, adding a more condensed list.

1998 December 30

• Fixed tons of dead links.
• Updated World War II timeline, now with info from 32 sources.

1998 November 29

• Updated Disney timeline.
• Added more links to other timelines.

1998 November 8

• Updated lists of A & W Root Beer glass mugs, and finally added lists of other memorabilia, complete with about 3 MB of images.

1998 November 2

• Updated Corvette timeline.

1998 October 23

• Updated microcomputer timeline, adding Wayne Pickette as a reference.

1998 September 30

• Updated World War II timeline, now with info from 7 sources.

1998 September 10

• Added first version of World War II timeline, with info from one source.

1998 August 9

• Changed format of main page, moving list of timelines to separate page.
• New layout of forsale pages.
• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1998 March 19

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1998 March 17

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1998 March 16

• Updated info in the Disney timeline.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1997 December 15

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1997 November 22

• Removed all images from the Canadian coins timeline due to lack of space on the web site. I hope they will return!

1997 November 18

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Removed some images on A & W Root Beer pages.

1997 November 10

• Updated A & W Root Beer timeline.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1997 November 2

• Updated info in Disney timeline. Moved all but the main page to a subdirectory.

1997 October 10

• Updated Mug Shots section with new images, more info in timeline, etc.

1997 October 4

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1997 August 15

• Completely revised list of Canadian A & W Root Beer mugs.
• Added lots more images of A & W Root Beer glass mugs.
• Updated A & W Root Beer prices realized on eBay's AuctionWeb page.

1997 May 31

• Completely revised list of US A & W Root Beer mugs.
• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1997 May 16

• Updated A & W Root Beer prices realized on eBay's AuctionWeb page.

1997 April 3

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1997 February 28

• Updated info in Disney timeline.
• Updated info (slightly) in Disney Information Source.

1997 January 31

• Updated Mug Shots' A & W Root Beer sections.
• Updated info in A & W Root Beer timeline.
• Fixed reverse links in image pages of Canadian coins timeline.

1997 January 26

• Updated info in the Corvettes timeline. Added subdirectory for misc files.
• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline. Added subdirectory for misc files.

1997 January 5

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline. Added subdirectory for images.

1996 October 26

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1996 October 1

• Extended Mug Shots' listing of A & W Root Beer items.
• Updated info in A & W Root Beer timeline.
• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1996 September 19

• Updated info in A & W Root Beer timeline.
• Fixed typo in e-mail address in Mug Shots pages.

1996 September 14

• Reworked the format of "Ken P's A & W Root Beer Mugs", renamed it "Mug Shots", and added a timeline of the A & W Root Beer companies.

1996 August 30

• Modified Swedish surnames to make accented letters universally readable.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.

1996 August 9

• Removed several outdated text files that I don't have time to update, and the humor section.
• Updated info in Disney timeline.

1996 June 28

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Added more images to the Canadian coins timeline, and improved quality of several images.

1996 May 27

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.

1996 April 21

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.
• Updated Disney Information Source.

1996 March 20

• Added tons of info to Disney timeline, expanding it from 33 sources to over 80.
• Added $2 coin images to Canadian coins timeline.

1996 January 31

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.
• Added more links to images and web pages from the microcomputers timeline.
• Added hot links to company names, pointing to their homepages.
• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Added more images to Canadian coins timeline.

1996 January 22

• Split Disney timeline (HTML version) into 8 sections.

1996 January 18

• Updated info in the microcomputers timeline.
• Added links to images and web pages from the microcomputers timeline.
• Split microcomputer timeline (HTML version) into 8 sections.

1996 January 16

• Removed "yearly changes" section from canadian coins timeline. It will reappear later as a separate document.
• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Added images/links to Canadian coins timeline.
• Added embedded images to title of Canadian coins timeline.
• Added some more images to the A & W Root Beer mugs page.
• Added two images showing all of my A & W Root Beer items.

1996 January 11

• Updated info in the microcomputer timeline.
• Removed some items from microcomputer timeline, which weren't really events, such as year-end sales figures, percent of market stats, etc.
• Added another two text files of computer humor.
• Updated Disney Information Source.

1995 December 8

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Updated info in the Disney timeline.
• Updated info in the microcomputer timeline.
• Updated info in the Corvette timeline.
• Added another text file of computer humor.
• Added a genealogy section, listing surnames of my ancestors.

1995 November 16

• Updated info in the microcomputer timeline.
• Updated Disney Information Source.

1995 November 3

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.

1995 October 23

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Added 10 images to Canadian coins timeline.
• Updated info in the microcomputer timeline.

1995 September 27

• Updated info in the Disney timeline, nearly doubling in size.

1995 September 23

• Updated info in the Canadian coins timeline.
• Added 22 images to Canadian coins timeline.

1995 September 18

• Removed some images from coins page.
• Removed all images from Corvettes page.
• Removed images from microcomputer timeline.
• Updated info in the microcomputer timeline.
• Updated an image in A & W Root Beer page.

1995 August 25

• More images for the A & W Root Beer page.

1995 August 20

• New! Images for the A & W Root Beer page!
• Some more items in the Corvette timeline.
• More items in the Canadian coins timeline, and some new images.
• Update of info and images for the microcomputer timeline.
• Added tons of info to the the Disney chronology.

1995 August 2

• I didn't like the way the year/month/day/event were all on separate lines in the HTML versions of the Disney/coins/Corvette chronologies, so I changed the format, making it a bit more compact. Just updated the Corvette and coins chronologies on the web site at this time.
• Added a few more events to the Corvette chronology.

1995 August 1

• Fixed a subtle oops in the Chronology pages for Corvettes, Canadian Coins, and Disney.
• Added many more events to the microcomputers chronology.
• Added tons of info to the Disney chronology.
• Added many more events to the Corvette chronology.

1995 July 28

• Re-worked home page, removing dumb list of links to elsewhere on the web.
• Greatly enhanced Canadian Coins history page, splitting it into two parts, one with the Chronology of Events, and the second part for a year-by-year list of changes to Canadian coins.
• Added a few more remote links to the Disney Information Source page.

1995 July 16

• Bit of fixing up presentation of Disney Information Source page.

1995 July 14

• Updated microcomputer list.
• Updated Corvette list.
• Added section with various bits of computer humor.
• Added Disney Information Source page.
• Updated Disney chronology.

1995 July 7

• Updated microcomputer list.
• Added image to microcomputer list.
• Updated Disney list.

1995 June 29

• Updated microcomputer list.
• Added new chronology of Disney.
• Added image to Corvette list.
• Added images to coins list.

1995 June 15

• Updated Corvette list.
• Added images to coins, Corvette, and microcomputer lists.
• Updated MS-DOS computer benchmarks list.

1995 June 8

• Updated microcomputer list.
• Added new chronology of Corvettes.

1995 June 3

• Added dozens of links to web sites.
• Updated microcomputer list, and added images to it and the Canadian coins list.

1995 May 31

• Converted two text file chronologies (Canadian coins, and microcomputers) to HTML documents.

1995 May 24

• Made pages available to the world, via Island Net. Initial set of pages feature lists of web sites for Ken and Wendy, and several text files maintained by Ken.