4 Feb 2005
Sminkeditorn: a generation learns HTML
Jay Svensson's Sminkeditorn (the make-up editor) arrives with PRO 2 after a whole night's work, the single most important feature in the revenue rocket PRO. The first Lajv about PRO 2 appears after 12 seconds, and by February 76,000 have upgraded.
A whole generation of krypin decorators who learned HTML without realising they were learning HTML.
- Sminkeditorn was invented by Jay Svensson and was the single most important feature in LunarStorm PRO.
- Krypin colours could be bought for SEK 10 via SMS (Realtid 2005).
- The Swedish Internet Museum (Internetmuseum), 2015: “Pyntade krypin gör svenskarna till HTML-proffs” (Decorated krypins turn Swedes into HTML pros).
- PRO 2 cost SEK 25. Rickard joked that a thousand people had already “converted from Christianity (PRO) to PRO 2”.
- Staff tested the editor in their own krypins from the end of January.
- Danish LunarStorm had a “SminkeGenerator” as early as 2002, and PRO had “Supersmink” from the start.
With: Johan Sjögren, Jay Svensson, Klas Karlsson
Sources: Internetmuseum: Pyntade krypin …