WHO HOW AND WHY?

Who, how and why?

The Interactive Christmas Tree first appeared in 1998. That year, about 50.000 visitors took a look in our office in one month. This year, the tree is back already for the 4th year in a row, this time in one of the offices at leading dutch ISP XS4ALL

Ingredients for an interactive Christmas tree:

• 1 Christmas tree
• 3 sets of lights
• 1 Christmas star
• A diversity of Christmas decorations (ornaments, old cd’s, …)
• 1 webserver
• A small circuit to control through the parallel port
• 1 webcam
• A (fast) constant link with the Internet
• the people mentioned above to add everything
• a couple of nights work
• a set a colleagues at first line helpdesk

The interactive Christmas tree is made by:

Idea, scripting:	Nic Limper
Hardware design and production:	Wil van Osch
Website design:	Diana Brandt
Christmas tree provided by	XS4ALL internet
Hosting:	XS4ALL internet
With thanks to Frederique, Agnes en Cees, and the collegues at 1e line helpdesk. 🙂

Mail for more info: [email protected]

Latest changes:

10/12/2004 – Brushed up the old website of last year