Friday, 30 July 2004

Earliest Found Uses of Journal Functions

Check out the links below for an historical tour of the earliest journal uses of then considered "NEWLY DISCOVERED" journal functions !!!
i've decided to add an editorial comment, for journalers who believe that we've always had the ability to add images in the text area of journal entries .. it just ain't so !!
the actual credit for using an animated gif IN the text area of AOL Journals is squirrelygirlie4 on September 5, 2003

i remember running around J-Land (long before it was called J-land lol) and finding her entry where she had an animated smiley in her journal entry .. believe it or not, that was something that had NEVER been done before

both Vivian and
i emailed her, wanting to know how to recreate her discovery in my own journal .. i emailed Vivian (one of my cohorts in Journal Beta) asking if SHE had any idea how to get animated text into a journal entry
it turns out that squirrelygirlie4 had copied the animated smiley from her email .. the gif actually "belongs" to AOL and is stored on their servers somewhere in cyberland .. a few days later .. after numerous experiments trying to duplicate the animated gif in a journal entry, it was discovered that using HTML code, it WAS possible to link to an animated gif in the text area of journals
the rest as they say, is history !!!

EARLIEST IMAGE IN THE TEXT AREA OF A JOURNAL ENTRY:

Friday, September 5, 2003
4:49:00 PM CDT
Found at:  Life, Love and other stuff....

Ahh Friday!
here is my own journal entries where i tried to experiment with adding my own animated gifs:

Monday, September 15, 20031:11:00 AM EDT

calling one helpful html expert please

7:39:00 AM EDT
animated smiley faces

not being content with simply being able to add animated gifs, i needed to find out WHY, so i elicited the assistance of Mr AOL Answer Man Scalzi to see if HE had any idea why .. here is his own journal entry outlining the NEW discovery !! :
Pictures in Your Journal -- A New Way
from there, different journalers discovered how to remove the extra html coding that was added and how to remove the annoying blue border that was appearing around the images


EARLIEST AUDIO ENTRY USING AOL BY PHONE:
Monday, August 4, 2003
12:20:00 PM EDT

Found at:  What a Life

Audio entry



Sunday, September 7, 2003
3:39:00 PM CDT
Found at:  Nwanyioma's Journal

Audio entry


EARLIEST USE OF VIDEO IN A JOURNAL ENTRY:
Friday, November 14, 2003
5:14:00 PM CST

Found at:
   A LIFE IN SLOW MOTION
Found by:  onestrangecat

Slo in Motion??

EARLIEST USE OF GRAPHICS IN ALL ABOUT ME SECTION:


Sunday, September 28, 2003
1:12:00 PM CDT
Found at:  A LIFE IN SLOW MOTION

A neat trick for inserted images!



FIRST SOUND FILES LINKED IN A JOURNAL ENTRY:


Wednesday, September 3, 2003
11:20:00 AM EDT

Found at:
  This Is Michael NYC
Found by:  onestrangecat

Listen to this.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

9:48:00 PM CDT

Found at:  A LIFE IN SLOW MOTION

A MUSIC ENTRY

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