About This Site

About the Author

Jon Stanley, born in 1988, has always had a fascination with electronics and how things work. His first electrical circuit with a battery and a light bulb was made at an early age. This fascination was evident in the books he read on science, electronics, and the evolution of technologies that preceded today’s modern technologies. At eleven, Jon was given a pair of 12AU7 vacuum tubes by a friend of his parents, sparking an interest in anything with vacuum tubes. Curiosity about how vacuum tubes functioned eventually led to his discovery of vintage radios and an interest in how they worked. This fascination with vintage electronics grew to include old televisions, computers, and more. Jon joined the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society (VRPS) in 1999. Members helped Jon repair old radios and introduced him to vanishing older technologies and their evolution to today's electronics. In the photo on the left, Jon is shown in May 2006 holding up his first jug filled with wax paper capacitors from old radios.

In 2006 Jon graduated from Denton High School in Denton, Texas where all four years he was an active member of the Technology Club. During those four years, Jon created many electronic projects, most of which are presented in the projects page. These received first place honors in state Technology Students Association (TSA) competition. In his senior year, he created two projects for his former technology systems instructor: an automatic pneumatic can crusher and a Rube Goldberg project for the TSA national level competition. Countless hours were spent working on the Rube Goldberg project starting in late March. Jon's Rube Goldberg qualified for nationals in May, marking the first time Denton High School would participate at the TSA nationals. After two nearly flawless demonstrations at Nationals, the Rube Goldberg from Denton High School won first place.

Jon is currently attending Rice University in Houston, Texas and is majoring in electrical engineering. In the picture below, Jon is shown with various projects in 2003.

History of this Website

This website originally began in late 1999 as "Jon's Antique Radios" to exhibit Jon's small collection of vintage radios. The website has grown over the years as more and more radios, then televisions and other miscellaneous electronic devices were obtained. AOL provided a website generating software that was originally used to create the website. Eventually the website began to appear inflexible to screen resolutions, text sizes, and download times due to the generator's extensive use of tables. So, this website went through a complete overhaul; the entire HTML was written from scratch using Notepad and this method is still used today. Most of the graphics, including project schematics, are created with Microsoft Paint and other inexpensive image editors for optimum download times. The storage space on AOL, which was only a few megabytes in size, eventually was outgrown as the content expanded. A new domain name, Electronixandmore.com, was founded in August 2002 and has grown in content and popularity ever since.

Above is the earliest screenshot of this website. On a circa 1995 Packard Bell desktop computer with a 800x600 screen resolution, the website was created using AOL's (version 5.0) online "Easy Designer" website creator. The website began with the blue background, which lasted from late 1999 to 2001. The website went from the blue background to a lighter color without a background image in late 2001, shown below.

The schematic background image you see here right now was added shortly after the background color switch. Also the main page title image have changed over time, and below are two of the longest lasting title images.

2001 - Early 2002

August 2002 - November 2006