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[gimp-web/gimp-web-static] Added and fixed formatting for prehistory page

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Author: Pat David <patdavid gmail com>
Date:   Wed Aug 5 17:05:55 2015 -0500

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@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@ Title: A Brief (and Ancient) History of GIMP
 Date: 2015-07-29T14:40:35-05:00
 Modified: 2015-07-29T14:40:43-05:00
 Authors: Pat David
-Summary: About the folks behind this project.
+Summary: 
 
-#url: about/ancient_history.html
-#save_as: about/ancient_history.html
 
 ## A Brief History of GIMP
 
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+Title: How It All Started...
+Date: 2015-07-29T14:40:35-05:00
+Modified: 2015-07-29T14:40:43-05:00
+Authors: Pat David
+Summary: 
+
+
+## July 1995 - Two questions
+
+At the end of July 1995, Peter Mattis posted a message in several newsgroups related to X11 and Linux 
application development, asking two questions and giving hints about an interesting program...
+
+<pre style='font-size: 0.75rem; white-space: pre-wrap; border: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 1rem;'>
+<b>From:</b> Peter Mattis
+<b>Subject:</b> Image Manipulation Program Features
+<b>Date:</b> 1995-07-29
+<b>Message-ID:</b> <<a 
href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/msg/ffa0c060f527159b";>petm-2907952329370001
 charnley hip berkeley edu</a>>
+<b>Newsgroups:</b> comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
+
+Suppose someone decided to write a graphical image manipulation program
+(akin to photoshop). Out of curiousity (and maybe something else), I have a
+few (2) questions:
+
+  What kind of features should it have? (tools, selections, filters, etc.)
+  What file formats should it support? (jpeg, gif, tiff, etc.)
+
+Thanks in advance,
+ Peter Mattis
+</pre>
+
+## July 1995 - A program using plug-ins?
+
+Two weeks before, he was mentioning some program using plug-ins...
+
+<pre style='font-size: 0.75rem; white-space: pre-wrap; border: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 1rem;'>
+<b>From:</b> Peter Mattis
+<b>Subject:</b> Re: Best way to write plug-ins?
+<b>Date:</b> 1995-07-16
+<b>Message-ID:</b> <<a 
href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/msg/a385210efec43df3";>3ua2hd$bbv agate 
berkeley edu</a>>
+<b>Newsgroups:</b> comp.os.linux.development.apps
+
+In article <3u7amh$    felix cc gatech edu>,
+Jeff Garzik <jgar    cc gatech edu> wrote:
+>I am writing an application for a my company, and I am interested in
+>making it very easy to hook into internal program data (like a
+>PhotoShop Plug-In, if you know what one of those is).  What would be
+>the best way to do this?
+>
+>I can only think of two ways to do it right offhand, but I would like
+>to avoid the second (call me a purist):
+>
+>* Allocate shared memory to a child process, which is either an
+>  a.out or ELF binary.
+>* Write the data out to a temporary file, or pipe, which the child
+>  executable then reads.
+>
+>Is there a better way?
+
+Well, I'm currently writing an application that uses plug-in modules. The
+technique I use is to use pipes to handle communication and to use shared
+memory to pass large data structures back and forth. (Well, I guess they
+aren't really "passed" when using shared memory, now are they. :)
+
+It is, however, not very easy to hook into internal program data. I set up
+a fairly simple message passing system to handle requests for data. It works
+fine for my purposes, but it wouldn't easily expand to allow access to 
+arbitrary data structures in the main application.
+
+Mail me if you want more specifics.
+
+Peter Mattis
+</pre>
+
+## November 1995 - An Announcement
+
+And then in November comes the first announcement of a beta release of the General Image Manipulation 
Program, "The GIMP" (later renamed to just "GIMP").
+
+<pre style='font-size: 0.75rem; white-space: pre-wrap; border: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 1rem;'>
+<b>From:</b> Peter Mattis
+<b>Subject:</b> ANNOUNCE: The GIMP
+<b>Date:</b> 1995-11-21
+<b>Message-ID:</b> <<a 
href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/msg/b5a9a98ef1e9fd4d";>48s543$r7b agate 
berkeley edu</a>>
+<b>Newsgroups:</b> comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.x.apps
+
+The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program
+------------------------------------------------
+
+The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a
+variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP's 
+major features:
+
+ Image viewing
+ -------------
+
+   *  Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color.
+   *  Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays.
+   *  View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color.
+   *  Simultaneously edit multiple images.
+   *  Zoom and pan in real-time.
+   *  GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support.
+
+ Image editing
+ -------------
+
+   *  Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier 
+      and intelligent.
+   *  Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
+   *  Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve,
+      blend and text.
+   *  Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect).
+   *  Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose).
+   *  Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and
+      new effect filters.
+   *  Multiple undo/redo.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+ *  The operating system must support shared memory. 
+ *  X11 R5 or R6\. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a
+    chance to test it).
+ *  The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The
+    X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is
+    only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure
+    information with the source code).
+ *  Motif 1.2 or above.
+
+The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating
+systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX.
+
+Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif
+requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several
+systems soon (including Linux). 
+
+URLs
+----
+
+http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~gimp
+ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
+mailto:gimp soda csua berkeley edu
+
+Brought to you by
+-----------------
+
+  Spencer Kimball (spencer soda csua berkeley edu)
+  Peter Mattis (petm soda csua berkeley edu)
+
+NOTE
+----
+
+This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven't
+implemented all of the features we think are required for a full,
+unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven't found yet
+just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across
+one of these, please send mail to gimp soda csua berkeley edu with
+precise details on how it can be reliably reproduced.
+</pre>
+
+## February 1996 - GIMP 0.54
+
+GIMP 0.54, the (in)famous Motif release, is announced in February 1996.
+
+<pre style='font-size: 0.75rem; white-space: pre-wrap; border: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 1rem;'>
+<b>From:</b> Peter Mattis
+<b>Subject:</b> The GIMP v0.54 -- General Image Manipulation Program
+<b>Date:</b> 1996-02-15
+<b>Message-ID:</b> <<a 
href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.announce/msg/e1c97862ec4e89b1";>cola-liw-824385260-28937-1 
oravannahka helsinki fi</a>>
+<b>Followup-To:</b> comp.os.linux.development.apps
+<b>Newsgroups:</b> comp.os.linux.announce
+
+A new version of the GIMP has been released. 0.54 features some
+improvements over earlier versions and many bug fixes. (I tried my
+hand at using Purify and found out what an extremely cool tool it
+is). Also available are precompiled binaries for HP's, Suns (both
+Sunos 4.1.x and Solaris), SGI's, and Linux a.out. I'm attaching the
+README file to the end of this message which contains the url's for
+getting the source and binaries.
+
+This is a partial list of changes from earlier versions:
+
+  * Fixed lots of other shit...added targa (tga) and pnm support...
+  * Fixed a bit of stupid programming that caused some memory in
+    autodialogs to never be freed.
+  * Windows tend to retain their scale when using plug-ins which
+    create new images now. (Such as "duplicate").
+  * Used purify and found some stupid memory bugs. These include
+    creating several arrays 1 byte too small and using unitialized memory
+    in one instance.
+  * Fixed a bug in bezier selections when an anchor point was outside
+    of the image.
+  * Implemented a dirty bit for images. Modified images will prompt to
+    be saved before being closed.
+  * Made a slight modification to the way the file overwrite dialog works.
+ 
+
+Future plans
+------------
+ 
+During Christmas break we encountered Photoshop 3.0 and discovered the
+"joy of layers". This functionality was deemed absolutely necessary
+and will part of the next release of the GIMP. This will involve major
+changes to many parts of the GIMP and is not expected to be ready for
+several months. The other major item being changed is a reworking of
+the interface (and perhaps the dropping of Motif!). Please do not bug
+us about when these changes will be ready. It only distracts us and
+slows us down. (Suffice it to say, we think the changes will be worth
+the wait).
+
+The GIMP: the General Image Manipulation Program
+------------------------------------------------
+
+The GIMP is designed to provide an intuitive graphical interface to a
+variety of image editing operations. Here is a list of the GIMP's 
+major features:
+
+ Image viewing
+ -------------
+
+   *  Supports 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit color.
+   *  Ordered and Floyd-Steinberg dithering for 8 bit displays.
+   *  View images as rgb color, grayscale or indexed color.
+   *  Simultaneously edit multiple images.
+   *  Zoom and pan in real-time.
+   *  GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and XPM support.
+
+ Image editing
+ -------------
+
+   *  Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy, bezier 
+      and intelligent.
+   *  Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip.
+   *  Painting tools including bucket, brush, airbrush, clone, convolve,
+      blend and text.
+   *  Effects filters (such as blur, edge detect).
+   *  Channel & color operations (such as add, composite, decompose).
+   *  Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and
+      new effect filters.
+   *  Multiple undo/redo.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+ *  The operating system must support shared memory. 
+ *  X11 R5 or R6\. (Actually, it may work on R4, but we have not had a
+    chance to test it).
+ *  The X-server must support the X shared memory extension. (The
+    X-server does not actually need to support shared memory so this is
+    only a temporary situation until we integrate the configure
+    information with the source code).
+ *  Motif 1.2 or above.
+
+The GIMP has been tested (and developed) on the following operating
+systems: Linux 1.2.13, Solaris 2.4, HPUX 9.05, SGI IRIX.
+
+Currently, the biggest restriction to running the GIMP is the Motif
+requirement. We will release a statically linked binary for several
+systems soon (including Linux). 
+
+URLs
+----
+
+http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp
+ftp://ftp.xcf.berkeley.edu/pub/gimp
+mailto:gimp xcf berkeley edu
+
+Brought to you by
+-----------------
+
+  Spencer Kimball (spencer xcf berkeley edu)
+  Peter Mattis (petm xcf berkeley edu)
+
+NOTE
+----
+
+This software is currently a beta release. This means that we haven't
+implemented all of the features we think are required for a full,
+unqualified release. There are undoubtedly bugs we haven't found yet
+just waiting to surface given the right conditions. If you run across
+one of these, please send mail to gimp xcf berkeley edu with
+precise details on how it can be reproduced.
+
+</pre>
+
+The story continues in "[A Brief (and ancient) History of GIMP](ancient_history.html)".
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