i. Abstract

Late one evening I was watching a rerun episode of How I Met Your Mother⁽¹⁾ and I came across the term "Revertigo"⁽²⁾, a term which was used to describe a person's change in behavior whenever he or she gets in touch with a person from their past. It describes an odd and unexplainable tendency to become the person you used to be when you were with that person, such as talking like you used to (e.g. shouting across the hall, now shouting across MRT trains), eating like you used to (mabilis na kaya kumain si Joe?) and generally behaving like a kid (e.g. pretending to enjoy a cartoon so you won't need to wash the dishes).

Now this website has nothing to do with any of that. I just needed a catchy blurb so people will actually read on. Believe me, the title does not even make sense.

ii. Methodology

This is how you do it.

First you create a facebook⁽³⁾ account. Then you look for all the people you know. Then you will realize that you can group all these people into several "circles of influence" kind of thing. You will realize that facebook can do that for you easily. So you group your mafia, err... your friends into people who actually play the game and you get excited for several months and suddenly people stop sending you energy packs. They lose interest in the game and then you have no one to play mafia wars with.

Then you download the latest movies around. woohoo for piratebay. Then you get to the see "the social network". Then you search the internet for more info on the movie. Then you stumble on an old link facebuko⁽⁴⁾ and thought, hey that site is funny, I wonder how he made that? Then you download wordpress⁽⁵⁾ and the smells-like-facebook⁽⁶⁾ theme (which is no longer up btw but the author graciously left links to get to his latest dev version) to find out. Then you look at the code and think to yourself, hey I think I can replicate this on a smarty⁽⁷⁾/xampp⁽⁸⁾ setup.

Then you remember your "grouped" facebook friends and look for anything that can inspire you. Then you ride an FX from work and you overhear two kolehiyala's exchanging contact info, girl1: "May pisbuk ka?", girl2: "oo, meron" *me giggles (buti na lang maganda ka day). Then an epiphany on the name "Pisbuk"⁽⁹⁾ (hover your mouse on the logo above to see what i'm talking about). Perfect!, so HS batchmates it is. Then you tell your wife "mi, I'm going to work on something that won't make us any money but will make you famous, k lang?". When she replies "Bahala ka sa buhay mo!", Then you start coding and ignore her for 2 weeks.

Along the way you will encounter jQuery⁽¹⁰⁾, a wonderful set of javascript libraries that make ajax calls a breeze, not to mention the plugins^{(11)(12)(13)(14)} are to die for. Add a bit of random fortune⁽¹⁵⁾ so the site seem to have lots of words. Then top it off with smart image resizer⁽¹⁶⁾ and your pictures practically resize themselves.

Then you borrow a bunch of pictures from these kind people⁽¹⁷⁾, arrange some pixels here and there... and you're done. Just in time for Kate and William's royal wedding and Pacquiao's fight with Shane Mosley Shame Mostly. Oh, and our 20th anniversary as graduates of this wonderful school.

Don't forget to thank your wife for the endless coffee and hugs of encouragement.

iii. Conclusion

Pisbuk is not and will not be a social networking site. This is still just a catalog type website. Nothing more.
Pisbuk depends on javascript. Get the latest browser, no excuses.

iv. Review of Related Literature

(1) Marshal Ericksen, How I Met Your Mother season 3 episode 16 "Sandcastles In The Sand"
(2) Urban Dictionary, "Revertigo" defined
(3) Mark Zuckerberg, et al., http://www.facebook.com
(4) Jonas Roque, http://www.facebuko.com
(5) Ryan Boren, et al., http://wordpress.org/
(6) Ainun Nazieb, http://nazieb.com/456/smells-like-facebook
(7) Monte Ohrt, et al. http://www.smarty.net/
(8) Kai 'Oswald' Seidler, et al. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
(9) Dylan Wagstaff, http://www.alohatechsupport.net/examples/image-menu-1.html
(10) John Resig, et al., http://jquery.org/
(11) Jake Rutter, http://www.onerutter.com/onefblike
(12) Stephane Caron, http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com
(13) Matyas Juhasz, http://joohi.hu/shareit
(14) Jörn Zaefferer, http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/
(15) Henrik Aasted Sorensen, http://www.aasted.org/quote
(16) Joe Lencioni, http://shiftingpixel.com/2008/03/03/smart-image-resizer/
(17) Pisbuk is: Cencen Abad, Karen Abella , Elden Aboy, Arbee Acleta , Liza Alcances, Espie Alde, Ana Alvarez, Michel Alvarez, Melo Amor, Mylene Anciro, Leng Andres, Lui Ang, Jeanette Angeles, Ria Apostol, Arrow Armeña, Sushi Atienza, Allan Avenido, Leila Balacano, Carmel Bandal, Resti Bautista, Avel Bautista, Bong Belardo, Glenn Beley, Glenn Bernardo, Sb Bocato, Marivic Bonaobra, Jason Buenaventura, Ilynn Bulatao, Jb Cada, Talits Cainghug, Ronnie Carpio, Rita Castellano, Dora Catalo, Diane Catibog, Mona Cayanan, Arlene Celzo, Jeff Chan, Leo Chavez, Menggay Cheng, Gay Chew, Pat Chongco, Chris Chua, Balbal Claveria, Precy Coloma, Tintin Comoda, Aileen Conanan, Jojo Corpuz, Rainier Cortez, Chris Cruz, Nap Cruz, Rommel Cuison, Johnny Cunanan, Aouie Curameng, Rommel Cureg, Daj Dajac, Berna Dalusong, James David, Erwin Dayrit, Kidlat De Guia, Kit De Leon, Markitz De Lusong, Ricky De Ocampo, Pen-pen De Yro, Rizza Del Fierro, Mark Dela Cruz, Lot-lot Dela Rosa, Mark Delfin, Arys Deloso, Bridget Donato, Maya Dumlao, Edelyn Echano, Bentley Elgincolin, Joel Erestain, Bootes Esden, Rg Espinas, Joel Esquejo, Tuks Estacio, Percy Estacion, Ernie Estor, Edgar Fabian, Gets Fernandez, Yossie Ferrer, Nilo Florcruz, Dondon Frago, Sol Ganchero, Topeng Garcia, Ardy Garcia, Jodl Gayatin, Joan Geli, Poch Gomez, Jiggs Guevara, Des Guillen, Rommel Gutierrez, Dinah Gutierrez, Jorey Guzman, Sim Habacon, Julius Hafalla, Tanya Hamada, Pia Hamoy, Jake Hermosilla, Jon Hernandez, Cynthia Hernandez, Fe Ingalla, Mikael Jacob, Jeb Jamelarin, Christine Javier, Luis Katigbak, Raymund Lacson, Chris Lagman, Alve Lamadrid, John Lambino, Rhea Lansangan, Clint Larraga, Rutchl Laylo, Joe Layug, Dianne Ledesma, Darius Lim, Emon Linsangan, Nats Lioanag, Alvin Llantero, Ernie Lope, Jo-ann Lopez, Rene Lopos, Via Lorenzo, Roy Lorete, Digbay Loste, Judith Lumbao, Benjo Magbuhat, Jand Magsano, Rachel Manalo, Erwin Masangkay, Rubi Mayor, Lew Mejias, Dyep Miñoza, Myra Millana, Dovic Mina, Juj Mondez, Mona Natividad, Liza Nava, Hazel Navaja, Lia Navarro, Rica Navarro, Den-den Nova, Maricon Obrero, Myra Ocubillo, Ecel Pablo, Madel Padama, Wina Paderna, Ninette Pajarillaga, Jep Palo, Peegee Pangilinan, Paul Parañal, Sonia Pascual, Marga Paulino, Erick Perez, Gen Polidario, Allan Popa, Sieg Quemado, Cherry Ramirez, Jazz Ramiro, Teret Reginaldo, Jen Remoto, Raymond Repito, Rhea Reyes, Cocoy Reyes, Wedge Ricon, Dayday Riel, Paul Rivera, Dino Rodriguez, John Rodriguez, Candice Roscom, Liza Ruivivar, Jeneth Sabay, Nadz Sajili, Wowie Salbibia, Mickey Samson, Dexter Santiago, Hagee Sarmago, Segui Segui, Voltoy Sibal, Vivs Silvestre, Leander Simpao, Karl Solis, Harold Soriaga, Eric Soriano, Edong Soriano, Ron Surara, Kulas Tabilog, Ads Tanginan, Mei Tianco, Tina Torio, Mau Torralba, Helen Torralba, Rex Tungala, Red Urbino, Doris Uy, Karen Valdez, Bernard Vega, Christian Velasco, Jejo Venezuela, Toss Villamil, Nat-nat Villanueva, Rency Villegas, Tubay Yabut

v. Disclaimer

Pisbuk general layout and icons, while heavily influenced by facebook, is intended for entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement is implied or intended. Facebook, its logo and social plugins used in this site are owned by Facebook, Inc. Twitter, its logo used in this site are owned by Twitter, Inc. OpenID logo used in this site is owned by OpenID Foundation. All photographs, videos, text and other information posted in this website were obtained with permission from PSHS class of 1991 yearbook committee and their respective owners, and they retain the copyright to these media.