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I do not speak for any of my employers – past, present or future. Nor do I speak for any club, society, trade union, political party, religion, co-operative, organisation or collective of any sort that I am or have been a member of, or have supported in any way.

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World of nic website original content by Nicolas J. Doye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

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History

  • 1994: University of Bath. Static pages, with some JavaScript and Java Applet pointlessness
  • 1999/2000 moved to a shared server. PHP 4/MySQL
  • 2004: the worldofnic.org domain registered & used
  • 2007: Started using a virtual server
  • 2007: Migrated to Java/Spring/JSP/PostgreSQL
  • 2008: Migrated to Grails/PostgreSQL
  • 2008: Amazon S3, then Cloudfront used as a CDN
  • 2009: Migrated to ASP.NET MVC/Castle Windsor Container/SQL Server
  • 2010: Emergency transfer to static content
  • 2011: Migrated to WordPress with MariaDB

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