Welcome to Bill's World

Thanks for dropping in and checking out my little corner of cyberspace. Back before there was MySpace, people actually shared info about themselves with family and friends by building their own web sites - not providing the fodder needed to drive a major corporation's advertising engine.

As your host, please let me introduce myself. I'm Bill Mills, That picture on the right is my wife Dawn and I sitting on top of our Jeep at the Palm Beach Marina. Just another clue as to how rarely I update this page anymore - we painted the Jeep red and put a black hard-top on it in 1999, found it a new owner in 2006..  We took the picture with the High 5 Web Cam (a web controlled camera that used to be on top of the Palm Beach NBC affiliate's building) and a CDPD wireless modem hooked into our laptop compter in 1998 when that sort of thing was crazy high-tech, not the commonplace kind of thing you can do with your garden variety mobile phone today. This page started as a place for me to goof-off and experiment with HTML and PERL in the early 90s. Back in 1994, those 3-D icons down below with drop shadows were pretty cutting edge for the World Wide Web. I used to make one change or another a couple of times a week, but that was a long time ago.  I am also a part of the design team at PadStar Publishing, helping produce the AppTutor line of educational IOS Apps to teach grade school level math subjects to children. It's pretty exciting, in that compared to most apps that only quiz, AppTutor actually teaches the subject, has games/quizes to reinforce the subject, then a test to confirm that it's been learned. Even better they're all built, teaching their subjects to the new Common Core State Standards that are expected to be adopted by every state school system by 2014. Don't expect it to be anything current about my life - it's mostly still around just for nostalgia's sake, and a place for me to throw up the odd photo I want to share with someone.

This page page looks pretty much as it was after it was redesigned around 1995 or 1996 - if you like that old web nostalgia, it originally looked like this.

For now, slip your feet up on the desk, lean back, and cruise around. If you have any questions, or comments, please feel free to drop me some e-mail with the handy Bill's World Feedback Form.

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Corinthian Media Services

Click here to find out what I do for a living.
 
 

Digital Images

These images are bits and pieces from either commercial work, or in-house projects circa 1994-1995.
 
 

Paintball

Ever since my first game in 1986, I've enjoyed the sport of paintball. My career in the paintball industry has included playing in International tournaments, traveling North America, the Caribbean and Pacific, writing for several magazines, and even a stint as the editor of Paintball Magazine. I contrinue in my role as Technical Editor of WARPIG.com, the web's original paintball web site, and provide technical writing services to commercial clientelle.
 

Rockets

In the late 1990s, I had some fun with model rockets, as I had done in my youth, here's some info, along with a DIY model rocket launch controller.
 

Diving

Dawn received our Open Water diver certifications in 1999.  It's the thing to do in Florida - and the water is so much warmer, and there is so much more to see than in California.
 
 

You're Sick, Bill Mills!

This is the miscellaneous catch all category. Biographical stories, odd pictures, etc.
 
 

The Castle Anthrax Homepage

The Castle Anthrax, homepage of Dawn Mills, my wife, is no longer online. Creepy Internet stalkers became an annoyance.
 
 

Virtual Dice

Who needs a 50 cent pair of dice, you've got a computer, an internet connection, and Bill's World's Virtual Dice - one of my first CGI scripts.

Links to other pages

I hate going to someone's page only to find a bunch of links to other pages. I think I've got enough content to put in a few links and still have a high content to link ratio. But go here LAST, after you've checked out the rest of Bill's World.

Except where noted, the contents of the Bill's World WWW page, and its subsidiary pages are Copyright© 1995 - 2000 William Mills. All rights are reserved. If you see an image here that you want to use for something, or like my graphics and want to discuss some custom work, drop me some e-mail, and I'm sure we can work something out. I'm an easy going person However if you take something and use it without permission, expect a call from my lawyer. This web page was originally written in the Final Copy word processor, tested in AMosaic (MSIE, Netscape, Firefox? they didn't exist yet) on an Amiga 4000.