Creation
With the impending closure of Excite's Virtual Places a new chat venue was needed to house the soon displaced users of that service. Initially the chief software engineer for Excite chat service, Tom Lang, proposed a subscription based service using the Virtual Places software, but received no response from Lotus Software regarding a license. After two months without word, the subscription based service idea was considered dead. Development of an alternative chat venue, by Mike Parniak, using original software rather than the existing Virtual Places software began in mid-2001. Two months into the creation of what would later be known as Voodoo Chat, Lang finally received word that he would be granted a license to use Virtual Places for his subscription based service. Development of Voodoo Chat continued despite the removal of Lang's obstacles, and the first version of the chat opened in December 2001.
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Famous quotes containing the word creation:
“The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to all men, at all times, and in all places. She is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly. Creation has not displaced her, but is her visible framework and foil. All sounds are her servants, and purveyors, proclaiming not only that their mistress is, but is a rare mistress, and earnestly to be sought after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“She sings as the moon sings:
“I am I, am I;
The greater grows my lift
The further that I fly.”
All creation shivers
With that sweet cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)