The Evolution of Phoons.comThe Original Phoons Website | Version 2 | Version 3Other Phoon Topics The Original Phoons WebsiteLook below the line. That is how the Phoons web site looked when it started in 1999.
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The History of the PhoonIn 1980, a friend and I named a particular pose (essentially an exaggerated running person) the "Phoon."1 If one of us would say "Phoon", we'd both briefly assume that position. Later that summer, I snuck the Phoon into various family vacation photos. That was the beginning of photos that I have begun adding to this web page. In early 1999, I renewed the Phoons-in-photos thing while on a business trip (see the Bloomingdale's photo). Since then, others have started contributing photos of Phoons. So can you! For a description of a particular image, pass your cursor over it. Click an image to enlarge it. Where's WaldoPhoon?Various PhoonsYour TurnCan you think of someone who might contribute to this page? Do you know someone who is going on a trip this year? Send an email to them to tell them about this page. Need ideas for Phoon photos?
If you have Acrobat Reader, you can download and print phoons.pdf to show to others...and talk them into posing for a photo. I'd be glad to scan and return your Phoon photos if you mail them to me. If you are sending me scans, my request is this: send me a scan of the normal photo, and send a separate scan of the Phoon at a minimum of 800 dpi--I'll create the inset, if any. Notes
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Version 2June, 2000I added a title to reflect the growing collection: "Phoons from Around the World." And I added some "how to use this" instructions at the top. I realized that I was losing track of when pictures were contributed. (How could anyone know that the new pictures might be somewhere in the middle of the collection??) So, I added a new section, "History of updates...," so that visitors could view pictures by date, if they wished. |
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Version 3February, 2001Since I was adding all new pictures to one web page, the page was taking longer and longer to download. Obviously! Also, the "History" links merely displayed the images in their own pages. The picture pages had no stories, no personal touch, just pictures. I needed to break up the main page somehow. I decided to organize the pictures by category. But it was clear that some pictures belonged in multiple categories. I did not want to have to manually tweak one web page after another as new pages came in. So, I decided it was time to figure out how to get a program to generate the web pages for me. So, I created a text file that listed each picture and the categories it was in. I wrote a program to look at the text file and generate web pages. The program added "NEW" next to any category that had a picture in the Recent Additions category. The photos of the policemand and the guy at Disneyland were prizes at the time, photos which lended some legitimacy to the Phoons concept, as if "everyone" were getting into it. Eventually, I wrote a graphical program that automated more of the process. |
Phoons from Around the WorldYou will find this pose somewhere in every picture of every category below. See Editor's Picks for the best pictures.
picture for the Groups category! Know anyone who is getting married? graduating? Talk them into doing a Phoon while dressed fancy. And all of you who keep visiting this page and haven't sent in a Phoon pic yet, how about it? Thanks to viewers like you, there are now 204 Phoon pictures! |