Once long long ago there was a programmer. They wrote a program
and contributed it to the open source community. It was called phplinks
and it was good. 

The program evolved, changed owners, got a New name and after a moment
in the sun, was left to wither and die. Months later, on a grey and dreary
day, a naive and unsuspecting person stumpled upon the software and downloaded it.

After much frustration and seemingly endless hours of aspirin and coffee consumption,
he finally caught a glimpse of the genius the original author had embedded in it. 
He hoped he could revitalize it. Bring it into the 2nd millenium so that its secrets 
would not be lost in the murky waters of history.

We are still trying, but with every incarnation we are closer to realizing the satisfaction
the orignal authors must of felt when completing such as ominous task.

Our initial public release was dubbed Dew-NewPHPLinks2. It was greatly enhanced
by the 2 Sourceforge members adamsjd  and nicnoc and repackaged
as version 2.0.0.1 see: http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=88752 

Later a few Dew-code members squashed some bugs and added some features, repackaged as
2.0.0.2 and then 2.0.0.3  Then another member contributed an updated collection of country
flags and another added some tweaks to the "featured site" function.

Finally, the no longer naive but still unsuspecting person having recovered their sanity
and surviving the caffeine withdrawls continued his attempts to further the evolution of
Dew-NewPHPLinks. He added some requested features like being able to copy entries to 
other categories and some other stuff like web spider detection, more tweaks to the "featured
site" function, and a way for other programmers to add their own 3rd party modules to the admin
panel, making things easier to customize and speeding up the evolutionary process.

Then many many moons passed.. too many. Finally the grumpier but wiser person worked with a webmaster
that was simltanesouly managing over a dozen installations of the script. This prompted an extensive list 
of feature requests for the admin panel, mostly to combat automated submissions from spambots. 
Once the requested features like, banlists, optional notification emails, randomly displayed linkback text were added
he added some frontside features like optional left and right navbars for customized content, Google page rank for 
listed sites and a AJAX powered captcha method to keep those spambost at bay..

That brings us to today. The current beta release:
 DewNewPHPLInks version 2.1

We hope you like it.

Signed,
Dewed & the rest of the helpful folks at http://www.dew-code.com

Special thanks to the following for code snippets, observations and just general positive attitude.
In no particular order ..

Wicked:  http://www.wickedwebnet.net  
Numerous code touch ups, and helping field questions on the forum. 

Highlander:  http://mystic-nights.com
Original implemtation of banlists, major forum contributor and just generally radiates positivness.

Pamster:  http://www.pamster.com
Observant and diligent bug finder, that somehow manages to turn hideous bugs into pleasent little things that really
would be nice if they worked correctly, or just died a humane death.

Fmbrewing:  http://www.fattymattybrewing.com
Another observant and diligent Dew-Code member who has done wonders with his installation, and willingly shares just
how he did it. Someday I'll make it to Wisconsin an try some of his beer, just a little bit, it's a long drive.

Ajmboy:  http://www.wantatv.com
Tireless pursuit of perfection. Thanks to his questions, and later his feedback, I'm sure many Dew-Code members foudn his
observations helpful.


And countless others... 
Marie: http://footprints-online.com
Hel8itch: http://4star-phones.co.uk
User37: http://www.findit.co.nr
NutriCoach: http://www.nutricoach.net