About NE:
Ah, good ol' Nukem Enterprises, or "NE" for short. This is a programming alias I've
gone under for a long while now. I was originally going under "Eriksen Inc." back
in 1999 and then "Sublime Inc." a short while after. Both names didn't do it for
me and finally I stumbled along the current. (Which was probably somewhere in the
year 2000). The site has also bounced around a couple of servers. It's been on
Geocities and also on
http://members.aol.com. I try to keep all the old Geocities sites up and running
just to redirect traffic to here incase someone finds the web address in one of
my older programs. I mean honestly, how many great Qbasic games/programs have you
downloaded and then went to go to the site and found it no long exists? That's the
let down I'm trying to avoid.
The early years of NE were fun and simple. I created this site because, and I quote
the first update, "I just kept making project sites so now I made this!!! [the Eriksen
Inc. Website]". Which was somewhat true. Every time I had a semi-large Qbasic program
going, I would crack open a new subdirectory on my Geocities account and throw together
a small and unattractive website about it. These sites usually topped at about 15
hits total. :P The
Wry
and the
Doomed
project websites are actually still up to this day. My site probably wouldn't have
made it off the ground if someone by the name "ViperStrike" or should I say "Retna"
hadn't found it. By finding my site, he included me in the little "loop" of Qbasic
sites he and his friends that were affiliated with. (Getting my site the "oh so
needed" publicity".)
As time went on, the site quickly grew. Within two months of updating the Eriksen
Inc. website
every day I decided to move it to my AOL account. (Yes, back
in the day I
did have AOL. I know, shame on me...). This site was located
at http://members.aol.com/billa485. (It no longer exists). During this move, the
site became known as "Sublime Inc" and then before the site moved back to Geocities
it had changed to Nukem Enterprises. I kept the site there for about a year before
I moved it back to the Geocities account due to transfer speeds and just plain crappy
hosting on AOL's part.
The site sat in it's "Framed" version for another year before I switched to the
"table" version that had been the sites look for the past four years. I stayed in
the same URL for a long time, updating less and less often. Sometimes it would be
MONTHS before a real update even happened. It wasn't until mid-2005 or so
that I got back into the habit. Finally on 12/10/05 the website got up and moved
once again to it's current location. And here we are, still churning out wonderful
craptastic programs all these years later.
Oh, and just a little info incase anyone cares. This whole site is, and always has
been, created from scratch by me. The current scheme I used
NEdit text editor to create my files and
Gimp
to create my images. Please note that I
did not create the pepper that I
use oh so much. It's a brush style of the Gimp program and is owned by them. This
website and all it's sub-sites are powered by and run off of
Debian Linux.
I've hoped that you've enjoyed your visit thus far! Antiquated versions of this
website can be found in the
NE Archive, so check
them out!
Remember, submissions are always welcomed and encouraged!
To link to this site:
Please feel free to use this banner when linking to this website:
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Please
do not link directly to the button's URL because it doesn't work outside
of this domain. Just "right click" and click "save as" and then upload it to your
website. (It's a very small .gif file). Also, please use the URL "http://eriks.servehttp.com".
Thank you!
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