History of the Victoria Telecommunity Network Logo

Between June and November 17, 1992 when the Victoria Free-Net was under development by the Victoria Free-Net Association (VIFA), members of the association were asked to submit designs for a logo.

The winning entry was submitted by David Mattison and depicts a City of Victoria heritage lamppost connected by a power cord to a computer.

This is what the logo looks like as ASCII art:

         _                       W E L C O M E   T O   V I C T O R I A
        (_)
     _   |   _                 T E L E C O M M U N I T Y   N E T W O R K
   _(_)\ | /(_)_
  (_)---| |---(_)
       |_|_| \                                   modem: (250) 479-6500
        | |   \                                  voice: (250) 727-7057
        | |    \                           Office hours: 8:45am - 4:30pm
        | |     \
        | |      \        ___________      Victoria Free-Net Association
        | |       \      /_________/ |           4252 Commerce Circle
        | |        \____||        || |                 Victoria
        | |             || V T N  || |              British Columbia
       _| |_            ||________|| |     V8Z 4M2                CANADA
     _|     |_          |----------| |
    |         |        /___________/ /         hq@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
                       |------------|

The logo was subsequently enchanced by Bob Coulson and appears on the cover of the VIFA publication Welcome to the Victoria Free-Net: An Introductory Guide (1994-1995). This version also appears on our old Web site:

Bob Coulson enhanced VIFA/Free-Net logo, 1994

A further enhancement produced in 1997 and based on a 3D version prepared by David Mattison shows the power cord in red connected to the lamppost and computer with yellow plugs:

David Mattison enhanced VIFA/VTN logo, 1997

The 3D VIFA/VTN Logo by David Mattison can only be viewed with a VRML 2.0 plug-in or add-on to a graphical browser.

Document address: http://victoria.tc.ca/vifa/logo-history.html