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to the entire Dream Machine collection of Web sites, has been online since late 1994. Each site in the group was created to test one or another feature of the World Wide Web. For example, How Can You Laugh at a Time Like This? 
was one of the very first blogs on the WWW, created as an experiment to see if an unknown author could attract attention by posting short philosophical and political essays on a large variety of subjects. Another, Teen Movie Critic 
was not only the very first movie review site on the WWW, but was also targeted on a specific group, teenagers. The experimentation continued with The Web Poetry Corner 
, which was aimed at people of all ages from all over the world. The experimentation continued with The Gift of Youth 
was aimed at yet another specific group, middle aged or older people wishing to get into better physical condition by exercising with weights.
The webmaster behind all this innovation, experimentation and discovery, Willy Chaplin, is a talented and experienced research scientist, with background in psychology, mathematics, linguistics and computer science. Highly impressed by the work of Canadian scientist, Marshall McLuhan
Other sites created during the past decade include a group of sites meant to teach people how to play or how to improve their skills at backgammon
Jubal Chaplin provided the auditory content of Blue Transition
Recently Willy has become obsessed with providing transparent, easy to use, functions to provide real time translations of all content on the Internet, including email and chat as well as the Web page translations one can obtain either by going to various sites serving that function, or, using Willy's screen scraped
In the year 2000, Willy created a site pushing Oprah Winfrey for President
Summary: a small group of talented individuals has put together a grand experiment in providing Internet content and discovering its underlying secrets. Our collection of Web sites has stood the test of time, remaining quite popular all over the world for over a decade. At this time, we are seeking collaboration with others in furthering this research. People interested in joining our team or providing additional experimental content to our collection, should write Willy at willy@dreamagic.com.
, Willy set out to discover the message or messages in the new medium 
. The fact that every medium has a hidden message independent of its content was McLuhan's main contribution to communication theory. The results of all the experimentation discovered over the years is summarized in a site called The Jedi Master Speaks 
, appropriating a title from the well known movie trilogy, Star Wars 
, that best describes Mr. Chaplin's understanding of the secrets of the Internet, in particular, the World Wide Web. He was hardly alone creating all the content in this collection of sites. His partner and CEO of The Dream Machine, Gypsy, inspired and created the The Gift of Youth site when she herself was a 50+ year old physical trainer and bodybuilder at a local gym. Teen Movie Critic was the work of a talented young man, Roger Davidson, who has since moved on to creating movies 
of his own, as a film student. During his reign as Teen Movie Critic., Roger became somewhat famous, appearing in People magazine, was interviewed by many newspapers and even lectured to a University audience. He was succeeded by other talented reviewers, all under the age of eighteen at the time they wrote their reviews, Vivianrose 
, Mandy 
, Jackson 
and, on May 4, 2009, Teen Movie Critic - V, Jeff 
joined the team. 
, moved a column he had been writing for a local newspaper...Letters from Mexico...to our collection as well. This is a must-read for anyone planning to visit southern Mexico.
, sudoku 
and freecell 
. Willy programmed all the software used in these sites. For online poker, we recommend 
Pokerlistings.com. Online poker has become very popular on the www in the last couple of years. Pokerlistings is the authority amongst the poker sites, providing uptodate news and game advice.
in the form of harmonica blues riffs, showing that high quality sound could be posted to the WWW. Roger Davidson provided the video content of Roger Davidson's Movies as a test for using such content on the WWW as well as obtaining funding for further movie making. Terry Rutledge originally provided all the visual content of Modern Surrealistic Art, but was later joined by other artists. Gypsy, also a great photographer, posted a large collection of her photographic work on Grandma Gypsy's Photo Gallery - Urban Beauty 
as another experiment in presenting visual art. Yahoo! Driving Directions 
and Google Translation 
were screen scraped by Willy from other sites in order to test that function, which essentially uses content from other sites to augment its own content and provide special services to our users. A number of other sites were also created for this purpose. A full list of all the sites in our collection, along with brief descriptions of each site, are given on a portal site called Our Stars . versions by clicking on the red button at the top of this page. He is also putting pressure on Google to undertake this project, since it is too vast for a single person to accomplish.
. It got us fifteen minutes of fame on CNN and a lot of buzz before Oprah put a stop to it. In 2004 a man named Patrick Crowe started a similar campaign, which was also scotched by Oprah. In 2008, Willy and Patrick got together and joined forces for a third try 
. We so annoyed Oprah's attorneys that they threatened to sue us for copyright violations for using her image. Of course, this got nowhere, but it did increase our traffic enormously for a short while. This mistake by her lawyers got Patrick a personal phone call apology from Oprah as well as an on-air mea culpa. Oprah finally put it to rest by endorsing Obama for the job, an early and significant endorsement. On-air, when Obama suggested that Oprah had endorsed him mainly to get us off her back, she agreed...twice! Perhaps we can claim some credit for getting our current president in office.
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