ZIM is 10 Years Old!

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Thanks @Jamesbrrtt for the decade banner! See down below

Just realized that ZIM was launched in November of 2014.

We do not have the exact original site because ZIM DUO shared the same site. The section links are not quite working properly - all the sections are just listed down underneath.

All the versions and site we have are found under VERSIONS in the ABOUT section of the current site. https://zimjs.com/about.html#versions

We have added a little section at the bottom of the versions that shows a timeline (thanks @karelrosseel82 for the suggestion).

We should plan some sort of celebration for November 21st.

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I would like to point out that there have been a number of you that have been with us about that long! So good to have you using ZIM @amihanya @racheli @Jamesbrrtt @Iestyn @EducaSoft @Netanela @VishwasGagrani @Chris_S @frank and others!

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Then we have some halflings... hmm... @josephd @pettis @karelrosseel82 @kaviphimmasone @mathtechie @principemm @Yan and more...

[mathtechie]

Here to the end now!

ZIM is the best!

Thank you for all that you do!

[racheli]

Wow, can't believe it's been 10 years!
Thank you for all the work and effort you put into ZIM!
You are the #1 programmer

[karelrosseel82]

wiZard of code is your world of making happy zapp users ! users they don't now they are using ZIM so much

[Jamesbrrtt]

Thank you so much Dan! Happy Anniversary to ZIM. Love what you do. Love working with ZIM. Enormous congratulations on creating this fabulous creation!

[Jamesbrrtt]

Don't know if you need something like this? Very happy to make changes if you like it. Happy Birthday!

[karelrosseel82]

super creative!

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Very nice, James - I thought it was 70 years and nearly had a heart attack. Maybe file off the left top of the 1. Not sure if it needs to go right to the stem or just a smaller overhang... maybe would like to see both.

[Jamesbrrtt]

Hmm, you're right. Here's an update. Happy to have a go at something completely different if you think of anything.

[Iestyn]

Congratulations Dan on ZIM's decennial. It's a super framework and it's been a pleasure to follow you on your journey.

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@Jamesbrrtt - posted the banner on the front with a link to this post in the forum! Cheers.

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Some stats over the 10 years:

17 major versions **
65,000 forum messages
7 Billion ZIM views
223,000 video views ***
800 videos
6,000 html pages in ZIM directory
1,000 CodePen Followers
2,120 YouTube Followers
507 stars on GitHub
400 Commits
923 Followers on X
400 Examples on Example page
1,700 Editor Zapps
780 ZIM Beams
93,740 lines of code in ZIM ****
400 Doc entries
3,500 parameters

** versions - when we tried to stop at ZIM TEN, there were a half dozen major subversions. And when we tried to stop at version ZIM we had ZIM ZIM 00, 01, 02 which were like major versions.

*** this is current YouTube - we did all the early What IZ? series, etc. on the danzen video account.

**** just the ZIM file not the helper libraries or createjs - includes comments and docs entries which are built into the ZIM code and parsed out.

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We have posted a ZIM Exam in the Community section as code challenge. If you dare... do the exam!

Would you like to do an Exam?

Here is the Build Test that we gave our Interactive Media students this year. [Interactive Coding Exam - try it!] You can try the test in two ways. only watching the video see the steps / questions Here is a ZIP file with the steps for the test and the image for the Sprite. https://zimjs.com/exam.zip Let us know how it goes!

[Jamesbrrtt]

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[Jamesbrrtt]

Thanks Dan, very kind of you to use it! Happy 10th!