Back around 1998 I made a promotional CD showcasing some of what my small business offered. I built a website on a CD-ROM to hold some QuickTime Virtual Reality (VR) panoramas.
The panos were taken around the Birmingham-Southern College campus. As can be seen in the screenshots below, the panorama takes up just part of the window; this was because the panos had hotspots embedded in them.
Clicking an area of the pano with a hotspot would load information about what was clicked on, or perhaps load another panorama thus continuing the tour around campus.
People without a computer could play the CD in a CD player to hear an audio-only portion.
![[Webpage holding panorama of the BSC Campus Center.]](BSC_Campus_Center.jpg)
![[Webpage holding panorama of the BSC Library.]](BSC_Library.jpg)
![[Webpage holding panorama of the academic quadrant.]](BSC_Harbert_Building.png)
This panorama has some historic significance. Not too many years later a tall clocktower was erected on the very spot I took this pano.
The screenshot above was taken in Netscape Navigator; not version 2.2N which was their best version for the Mac in my opinion. This is perhaps version 3 or maybe 4.
(At that time Netscape was in such a battle with Microsoft, development of the Apple version of Netscape’s browser suffered. Apple, Apple’s customers, developers and content creators were suffering as well due to Microsoft telling Apple, among other things, to “knife the baby” and kill off QuickTime, Apple’s video software. Software required to create and play the VR I was making.)
A few years later I returned to take a nighttime panorama.
At the far right you can see the clocktower lit up against the sky.
![[Nighttime panorama of BSC showing Dorms, Library, Campus Center.]](BSC_Night_Pano.jpg)