TheExplodingWhale.com
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TheExplodingWhale.com
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About this site
Welcome to TheExplodingWhale.com! Your hosts are Steve & Jen Hackstadt, and we’re really glad you stopped by. The site has been an endless source of entertainment and education for us, and we hope you enjoy it as well. This page offers a brief history of the website and answers a few questions about us and the site.
History of the website
This is one of the oldest — and we like to think most comprehensive — exploding whale (EW) websites on the internet. Steve started the original version of this site sometime in the early 1990s, and he had no idea it would still be around today. The site has gone through three major revisions in its lifetime, described below.
The original site was hosted on a webserver in the Department of Computer & Information Science at the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, while Steve was a graduate student. The site started out like so many of the EW sites out there today: it was simply a place to download the amazingly entertaining video by Paul Linnman and Doug Brazil. As Steve’s interest in the event grew, the site was gradually expanded to include the Dave Barry article, a small number of newspaper clippings, and links to other EW sites. As its popularity increased, the bandwidth requirements of hosting the whale video exceeded what was reasonable for a University-sponsored website. In response, the video files were moved to a remote server, but the core site remained on the UO campus.
Contact
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- Eugene OR
- United States 97401
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- +1.5413448298
