Site History

This site was originally the Gallery of the Silver Millennium, founded 09.19.1997, because there weren't many good Usagi/Mamoru sites online at the time, and certainly no large galleries. In December 1998 the layout changed dramatically and it was upgraded to GSM version 2, remaining as such until January 1, 2000, when it was completely redesigned, renamed and moved to Serenitatis.com as Serenitatis version 1. (Version numbering started over at this point.)

Serenitatis version 2 arrived in July 2000, and remained online until June 2001, when bandwidth and file request issues (along with too much summer school) resulted in the site going on hiatus. Serenitatis reopened with version 3 on January 18, 2002. Version 4 was released on September 19, 2002, in honor of the site's fifth anniversary. Version 5 went live on December 31, 2002. Version 6 followed on June 1, 2004, and remained until version 7 (current) appeared on July 28, 2005.

Why "Serenitatis"? Over the summer of 1999 I studied part of the moon at Johnson Space Center (Mare Nubium, the Sea of Clouds specifically.) I got to thinking one day that nobody had really taken advantage of the name of Mare Serenitatis (the Sea of Serenity), which is where the Moon Kingdom and the beginning of the Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon saga took place! I decided to rename my gallery site, and bought the domain that fall.

This site was a member of the Sailor Senshi Domain Group from March 2000 – September 2005.

Version information:

Layout image from a doujinshi scan I found online. Subpage layout features a manga image from the Flame gallery. Fonts are Porcelain and Georgia. Layout created in Adobe Photoshop 7 and BBEdit.