My first pano - stitched together by hand in 1996 on a Macintosh over in Geography after I discovered how to put pictures into the Apple panorama mechanism that was part of Quicktime. It took me hours to do, and it wasn't quite right because the lens on the camera wasn't the correct one for stitching pictures together by just lining them up next to each other.

If the constant anti-clockwise rotation starts to remind you of last Saturday night, click on the image and it'll stop and you can then spin around the image as you wish. Or stop and have a bit of a rest.

The work to make the panoramas was done in my spare time. Panoramas couldn't be used for the main web site at Lancaster because they used either QuickTime or Java plug-ins, and neither of these could be relied upon on clients' machines.

We could have made a pano viewing area for those off-campus who could usually download the plug-ins if they didn't have them and install them, but on campus everything not made by the Microsoft Corporation was more or less banned - and the plug-ins to make these work then were either Java based or QuickTime. Neither of these were Microsoft products, so there was no point in developing panoramas at Lancaster .