In the Beginning

by Clio

Many of the original inhabitants of PanHistoria got their first online experience with a cyber community called Ancient Sites. Wyatt got pulled into AS because of his sister, Kemsit, who “thought it was the best thing since sliced bread”. He even wrote there as an Egyptian! (Trying to picture the Marshall walking like an Egyptian boggles my brain!) He moved up to become an editor and then a demigod at the History Vine, but for various reasons AS and the Vines were doomed. Wyatt, Kemsit, Sekhmet, and a person who became known as Merlin the Magician decided to create a new online community that became PanHistoria. Work got started in September of 2000 with the plan of getting the new site up and running in April 2001.

As AS and the Vines were collapsing around them, this team was frantically coming up with ideas, graphics and programming trying to get Pan off the ground. Wanting to provide a home for others who would soon become refugees in the cyber world, they had to work fast. They recruited some that they knew from AS and the Vines to be editors. Others became testers. Most importantly were the Founders. This group gave Wyatt and his crew the financial support necessary to get and keep Pan going.

The whole process was filled with nail biting experiences and hard drive crashes. Wyatt documented the process in his blog including the appearance and saving actions of the Mysterious Programming Dude. When it looked as if Pan would never recover from its programming woes, Serious and Mysterious Programmer Dude spent 72 hours putting PanHistoria back together again. Some might remember the home page during the Beta Testing Phase. Despite the glitches and problems people came back and supported Wyatt’s dream of Pan Historia.

The official launch was on February 14, 2002 and the rest is Pan-History. Pan-Erotic has been added in addition to a huge number of features here at PanHistoria. Of course there was the great meltdown of 2004, but that is another story for another time.

For those of you who want more information, Wyatt’s blog is a wonderful place to check out his thought process. He even has documented how he developed the idea for blogs