The following are a few excerpts from my collection of early-Palace related documents and other items of historical interest.

Unless otherwise specified, the document was written by yours truly.

I'll be writing an overview and brief history shortly, to help make sense of these documents. In the meantime, enjoy! - jbum

A recent email I sent which describes how the palace originally got started at Time Warner Interactive (email written 10/02).

The first floor plan, prepared for Damon Williams as a guide for room concepts (7/94)

Palace via IRC?? This actually (sorta) worked, but was then abandoned.(9/94)

Early Palace Precepts - The "Palace Philosphy"(11/94)

Memo from the first inter-company Palace "Demo" (1/95)

Proposed Feature List (1/95)

Early Room List (1/95)

A Graph showing mansion server usage in early 1996 (4/96)

Images from a 1997 Palace Party in Portland

Images from a 1997 Palace Party in Las Vegas

Text and Slides from a 1997 speech I delivered about the palace to a Cable/Broadband convention in San Diego.

The 1995 version of my homepage

The 2000 version of my homepage

The 2002 version of my homepage

The current version of my homepage