The first public url of Emmy was http://www.smartlearned.com/emmy. SmartLearned, which stands for Smart Learning Artificial News Editor, is the domain that hosts the public side of my university graduation project (more information on this project you can find on its “about” page).

Emmy looked like this at the time. My brother, Felix, helped me with the design, but even though he is a very good web-developer, he lacks the designing skills and the artistic touch needed in order to come up with a neat Web 2.0 look and feel. Nevertheless, I wasn’t very much interested in this aspect at the time, I just wanted to test the behavior of the application and if there are any obvious problems with it being online. Also I was itnerested in designing the functional scheme of the web site, and, as you may have already observed, the structure is very similar to the one used in the present.

I gave the url to some of my friends and received moderate optimistic feedback. I also added the url to Google, and soon enough they started indexing the website.

Note: This post has been written in retrospect and posted on September 10th, 2008.