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GREETING CARDS


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Today name days:
  • Gelgaudas
  • Narcizas
  • Tautmilė
  • Tolvydė
  • Violeta

Tomorrow name days:
  • Darata
  • Edmundas
  • Skirgaila
  • Skirvytė
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History of CARDS.LT

The idea of creating a greeting card service was formed in 2000 when the simple greeting cards system, integrated in one of CARDS.LT creators - Martynas' personal website, became quite popular. In these days there was no single-purpose greeting cards service in Lithuania.
CARDS.LT has started on 15th of September, 2000. The main focus was the greeting cards of the Olympics in Sydney (screenshots are from archive.org - some images are missing, so the views are not perfect):

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In autumn of 2000 the website received winter-cold look:

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In the spring of 2000 CARDS.LT received a new look, gained new functionality, daily shown namedays:

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This website was presented in the students' forum of informatics, organized by Kaunas University of technology in 4th of March, 2001. In the contest of the created software this website has been awarded the 2nd place. The system was programmed using PERL programming language, the text-based database was used then.

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In the end of 2002 the company, that hosted this project - JSC "Informacijos alėja" asked us to look for another home. However, big thanks to them for great support. Since then there were ~250 000 greeting cards sent.
In the end of 2003 we found a new home. Jonas Karpavičius, who was the founder of the e-show of flowers sveikinu.com gave us a dedicated server, JSC "Advista" created a design for CARDS.LT. This version of CARDS.LT was programmed using PHP4, the MySQL database was used.

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In the summer of 2005 the hard disk of the server went out. Since then the website was suspended. Until then around half-million greeting cards were sent.

In the April of 2008 this version of CARDS.LT was started. Many advanced technical solutions were integrated. Looking to the future, the support of OpenID was included, the website was launched in Lithuanian and English languages, the technical implementations (HTML, CSS) meet worldwide standards... Everybody claps the hands and send each other greeting cards.


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