Last updated: May 29, 1996
ALT.DAYS is an ALTernative version of NBC's "Days of Our Lives" and has been in production since April of 1993. It is based on many of the NBC show's characters but the storylines are original and have nothing to do with present (or future) episodes of the broadcast show.
The web page made it's debut in April of 1995 when it became patently obvious to me (the ALT.DAYS web spinner) that there was a desperate need for a public archive for this fine effort.
An attempt has been made to limit the number of images utilized in these documents so there should be little delay when loading the pages.
Every effort has been made to use the same (standardized) layout for each episode but there's no way to anticpate every contingency so please be patient if things don't look as you expect them to.
If you have any suggestions on how to improve this area, please don't hesitate to drop a line to the address below.
A final comment about the "coolness" of the graphics on the ALT.DAYS page. It has been suggested that the ALT.DAYS page would be "better" if it was more visually appealing. I have toyed with the idea of adding backgrounds and fancy-schmancy navigation buttons or image maps to these pages. But, frankly, I'm against the idea of adding a lot of graphics for two main reasons. First, it goes back to the history of ALT.DAYS. It started out in the land of Usenet (and still "airs" there each week). Usenet is a land of ASCII-based graphics. The logo you see at the top of each episode is derived from the ASCII logo that appears at the top of each episode as it gets posted to Usenet. I rather like having the tie-back to the history of this fine effort. And, second, bandwidth considrations are important to me. Each episode of ALT.DAYS already takes long enough to download without adding graphics that add nothing to the content of the episodes into the equation. The "meat" of ALT.DAYS is the text. And, I want to keep it that way.
Thanks for stopping by...come back soon.
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