The history of the project Chronopia World

Chronopia World was created as a side project of Chronopia Deutschland (https://www.chronopia.de).

The reason for this was that it was already recognizable in 2003 that there was no active English-language homepage besides Excelsior. In addition, texts in English piled up on my hard drive that I can hardly get translated. In addition, through the active Excelsior Forum, there was always new material and other things disappeared over time in the nirvana of the Internet and on destroyed hard drives.

For this reason, I decided to create a spin-off of Chronopia Germany as a "backup", which was called Chronopia World.

This version was in use until 2008.

Chronopia World 1st Version

Based on the English-language declaration page, an independent website in English was set up in July 2005 under the domain www.kerlin.de/chronopia/. The layout was a dark precursor to the 6.0 version of Chronopia Germany.

In principle, it was a simple, but already php-based script. There was no database in the background yet, because my provider at the time had not offered one.


The basic structure was kept simple. On the left, two menu boxes. In the middle the content area.

www.chronopiaworld.com and the 2nd Version

After the very good feedback from the English-speaking fans and many visitors, I secured the domain www.chronopiaworld.com in April 2008. This was also given a new layout. This is a modified layout that I had found in the archives of the Internet.
It is the layout of the Chronopia site of Target Games from the end of the 90s.

Supplemented by a database-based article and news system with print and comment function, as well as a separate script for the figure values, it is far more modern than the previous version.

However, it took until the end of 2012 for all texts and files from the first Chronopia World homepage to be transferred to the new one. The cause was only partly the amount of work, but the collapse of interests that had already caught me at the end of 2007.


After the release, the scripts / layout used here were also used and improved for Chronopia Deutschland. This improvement was then subsequently applied to Chronopia World as well.

At the end of the active use of this version in October 2025, there were 587x articles.

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Facebook und Discord

Im not a friend of social media networks. In this respect, I was never privately active on Facebook. However, for Chronopia I started a blog on 23.11.2014, which is used sporadically at the beginning and regularly for updates since the Kickstarter.

The reason was that there was no active page for Chronopia on Facebook at the time.

Facebook Url: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chronopia/672573189524145


For years now, message boards have no longer been the primary point of contact for interactive communication. This trend also affected the Chronopia message boards, which led, among other things, to the closure of the Excelsior Forum in 2023.

Initially used as a free replacement for Teamspeak in the gamer scene, Discord has become a good replacement because of its chat and forum function and is attracting more and more users.

As early as 08.04.2022, I therefore set up a Chronopia Discord server, which is now used as an official server.

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Archiving

Before I look at the new version of Chronopia World, let´s take a look back.

The previous version went online at the end of 2012. From the layout, structure and everything else, I am still very satisfied with the webpage. Was it perfect? No, but sufficient for me and fit well with Chronopia.

Over time, many articles have gone online on both Chronopia Deutschland (1156x) and Chronopia World (587x). Tens of thousands of files, especially images and downloads, are or were available to the visitor. Special projects such as the extensive product databases, but also the game values for each character/unit have cost enormous work and time.
In short, I´m still very proud of the result.

Overall, both websites are a good place to start when it comes to material for the 1st and 2nd editions of Chronopia. For this reason, I have decided to continue offering this version. For this purpose, the actual websites were spidered and uploaded as HTML variants without further functions, i.e. purely in read mode, in extra archive domains (https://archiv.chronopia.de/ and https://archive.chronopiaworld.com/).

I took these steps because with the new version of Chronopia Germany and Chronopia World, the focus is thematically on the new, third edition and it makes little sense to integrate all the old files there.
Therefore, except for a few articles like this one, almost no material from the old website will be carried over into the new project.

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Chronopia World 3rd Version

One of the main reasons for a completely new layout is to take into account the "mobile first" website trend. Ignored by me for many years, I use the reboot with the third edition of Chronopia to take this aspect into account.

The new homepage is similar in structure to its predecessors, albeit much more streamlined and freed from many "old stuff". In terms of content, the focus is of course on the third edition.

The mobile aspect can be seen above all in the layout. Font size, image size, etc. significantly increased. Decorative elements have practically disappeared. The layout itself uses a freely provided template, which was adapted by me for the purposes. Creating a practical layout yourself is now so extensive, especially with CSS, that I can only do it to a limited extent at the moment.

The latter was also the reason that the whole thing has actually dragged on since 2023. I haven´t found a good template that appealed to me. Only a further search at the end of September 2025 yielded a result that is reflected as follows:


As you can see from the screenshots, I kept the white interface.

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Initial creation on 24.10.2025. Last update on 28.10.2025.