Now, finally the site is ready..
But it actually all began back in 1996.
In 1996 I talked with a friend about making a virtual zoo.
I started making a design for it in Visual Basic. But it all stranded in the fact that we didnt have access to any text and pictures that we could freely use. But the idea was born, and it was a good idea, and worth the work it would take. But time would show that it actually all came quite easy. Using SPARQL.
After we had been making plans as we did in 1996, the idea spooked in my brain many times since then.
Then I, in around 2019, had it again, and I made a design for it. That is what you see on these pages. But again it stranded cause of my skills. I wanted to use SPARQL that much I knew. But I just couldnt get the codes working as I wanted it to.
Maybe I didnt try hard enough, maybe I just needed that virtual conversation with the AI that was to come.
And that happened now, when a friend, and my brother both came with news from the world outside my head, and I was told about openAI.
The first thing I did was to ask it about SPARQL. And I was given a new example to work on. The thing was now that the example was good, and I could send the code that didnt quite work for me, back to the openAI and it came with more suggestions. And then BAMM it was there. And then I could start making things. It just took a couple of questions. I could now read from DBpedia's database and present it in a webbrowser. Great!
Now I have given myself a seven day deadline to finish it. Selecting the animals is harder than you might think. I hope to get to update the list of animals, and maybe add more features.
I did manage to write the complete code in seven days. But I had to use a day more to get it running. Installing libraries and dependencies.
Coding the project took almost all my woken hours for that week. I had to ride the wave, of being up in gear, and inspired.

So soon I could narrow the language of the query results down to only English, and find a picture of the animals. Then I could also begin to select the animals I wanted to have in this virtual zoo. Here in the first edition there are about 1240 animals in the Zoo.
I thought a while, and then added the list of countries on the globe, as you see them on top on the front page.
That was fun to make also.
I had the domain ready and I think it suits this project very well.
Its the world wide wonder. And so are the animals on our planet. And the little rock itself;
A wonderful world!

Hope that you find this a positive experience;

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/Jacob
Aalborg, Denmark.