It's an unfortunate truth in all historical research: thanks to the ravages of time, most of what you want to study is long since lost to time. Juxaeology faces the same problem. While there are numerous sources for much of what went on at Jux after May 20, 2002 or so, before then everything has been lost. All we have of the original Totally Hat! and Jux Entente days is what was written then, as well as a few "screen shots." Working with what we've got, and Uncle Sam's money, the Museum has managed to recreate some of these early days in wonderful, historically accurate dioramas. While not as useful as a real source, these recreations allow us to view what life must have been like for these early "Hatters", and what their world looked like. We continue to construct more dioramas, although funding and public interest have waned recently in light of the discovery of the "Lost Feature of Graeme's Hard Drive", which has caused the Historic Sites wing of the Museum to steal much of our foot traffic.

After looking at these wonderful dioramas, be sure to check out the other wings of the Museum, where you can view some of the actual sources we used to create them!

Original "Totally Hat!" Index
You can open the link above either in a separate tab or window if you want to follow along while you're reading. What you are seeing is the original "Totally Hat!" main page, just as it looked when Jux was being used only as a Ragnarok Online clan home page. Notice how different everthing looks? The page uses a white color scheme, with grey dividers, entirely different from how Jux looks today except for the basic layout. The page is constructed of two different tables, which you can see by looking at the recreated source. Compare this to the modern Jux main page, which has been praised for its clean design, but still uses no less than four tables, and can occassionally use even more. But, as you can see, visual appeal was not all that important to the builders of Totally Hat!, our Jux Entente ancestors. They wanted function over form. And the site does indeed have that, in spades. Next let's take a look at what Totally Hat's original feature looked like.

The Undead Revolution (Hat Recreation) It's not secret to most of the visitors to the Museum that The Undead Revolution was the first feature ever created on the Jux Entente. It is one of the few to be published while the Totally Hat! name was still being used, and originally appeared using that site design's grey-and-white format. For the first time in age, it can be seen in that form in the link above. There are a few more problems with our recreation of this feature than there were with any of our other historic endeavors. The only thing approaching this level of difficulty is our current work on the original Members page, which will appear in the Museum at a later date. You see, this feature has gone through more transformations than any other main site file except the hub pages. It's been mangled, and, sadly, some data was lost during one of the original transitions. What the feature's commentary box originally said is known only to time now. Still, as far as layout goes, our recreation is perfectly accurate, and provides great insight into the way Jux features used to be treated.

Original "Jux Entente" Index The Museum is quite proud of this diorama, since it covers the briefest time in the entire history of the Jux Entente, the original 1.0 version of the site's design. The only true changes from Totally Hat! were in the name, and the new color scheme layout, which introduced the "floating box" design of white on blue. Unfortunately, since it used the same tables from the original Totally Hat! page, the navigation cell was subject to what Crossed Reality has been quoted as calling "the stretchy nav". If the first news post was taller than the navigation cell, the nav cell would grow to fit, exactly as the table was designed to work. That didn't really look all that great, as you can imagine. Jux 1.1 followed in less than a month, and while it also had a famous problem that will be covered in another diorama, it looked more or less like the modern Jux. With just a few weeks in existence, not much has been written or remembered about the ancient oddity that was Jux 1.0. While much of our recreation was originally based on hearsay, we're proud to report the recent discovery of a image that shows we got everything more or less right.

Unfortunately, that is current all for this section of the Museum. However, the Jux Site Recreations wing does currently have a very important project under way to produce a living, breathing version of the first page to ever be completely redone on Jux...the original Members page. We continue to be unable to find any real evidence of what it looked like, so we have to infer based on what we know it's replacement's appearance was. Only a few hazy memories remember those days, so things don't look good for the provable historical accuracy of the diorama...but we will do our best.