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About Us
OUR HISTORY
A STORY THAT IS NOT NEARLY ENDING
DiLucas.com is a site that brings together several projects that we carry out in parallel, the story is that of our projects over the years.95-96
A story begins
It all starts with a website called Frisson created in 1995 on a free hosting platform. This site is a help portal for programmers and offers computer support. The name of the website 'Frisson' is the name of the founder's Cat.97-98
It's hotd
In 1997 the Frisson site became very popular (more than 32,000 visitors per month) and changed its name to Hot Frisson. In 1998 A new animation replaces the traditional mouse arrow and turns into a spiky cat's head.99
The beginnings
After officially leaving school, the founder created the company Contagieux.net. The founder wanted to create an international company, which could reach several people quickly, with access to the Internet. One day when he was ill, the name came to his mind; Contagieux.net *Contagious* as a fast-spreading epidemic, that name was perfect.99.6
The revolutionary idea
In 1999 an idea to create the first online virtual cities was born. The idea is to click on a map and be able to walk through the streets of cities, enter shops and find out about their products and even buy them online. There would also be the history of the city and much more. Since the founder was only 17 at the time, he was told to go back to school and create a business plan and find more seed money. What he did! After a few months he comes back with a concrete business plan and is told that the idea is far-fetched and too avant-garde. Today we can all say that Google Street view is not so crazy!99-00
The sale
A new online sales site named Contagieux.net/Cars has been launched to finance the Villes Virtuelles project. This division offers a wide selection of modified parts for automobiles at an unbeatable price, 30 to 60% less than the competition. At this time, there is almost no site selling automoblie parts online. 95% of customers prefer to place their order by phone and do not trust the online payment system.00-01
The dream comes alive
The Cars division is sold and Contagieux.net is incorporated to become Contagieux.net inc. The money from the sale will be used to finance the Virtual Cities project. At the beginning of 2001, the Diverticement.net sites, as well as Art Quebec and History of Egypt were born. Diverticement.net is a site out of the ordinary, with its cartoon design. You must have at least a 1Mbit/s ADSL connection and a G3 or a 233Mhz Pentium to visit the site. The site will be an instant success despite the constraints, with more than 35,000 visitors per month. We must not forget that at the time there were far fewer Internet users and that only a minority of people had the necessary power to go to this site. It's as if in 2022 you were asked for a connection of at least 1.5 Gbit/s with a 3.5Ghz processor with 12 cores and more.01
Longer than expected
The project is falling behind schedule and the Internet crisis is starting to hit. The project must be put online quickly, so as not to lose presales, with more than 40 businesses that can be visited virtually. A functional Demo is put online.01-02
The agency
When creating the Virtual Cities site, many companies ask us if we offer marketing, advertising, photography and website creation services. We are therefore creating a digital agency that will offer a multitude of services to our clients.02
The launch of VV
Official launch of the VillesVirtuelles.com website, the first website of its kind in the world. The site offers virtual tours of the streets, tourist parks of Old Quebec City and around forty businesses. There are also more than 80 places where we can discover their history, more than 50 places and proposals for activities with all the information, namely, online booking of plane and hotel tickets, the sale of books on the Quebec region, more than 2000 recipes, live weather, news and much more.03
Evolution
VillesVirtuelles.com is expanding as well as Contagieux.net inc.. Contagieux.net inc. becomes a major company in advertising development, specializing in restaurants, while VillesVirtuelles becomes one of the largest tourist portals in terms of visual content in Canada with more than 30,000 photos online, hundreds of information pages and much more .04
More cities
Villes Virtuelles is expanding and several small villages in Quebec are being added, as well as Old Montreal. The site also offers video capsules of businesses and tourist sites. The site welcomes thousands of new visitors every day.05
New subsidiary
Creation of a new subsidiary. Contagieux.net and Boite Bleue inc. join forces to specialize in Internet marketing and development. The cities of Ottawa and Toronto are added to VillesVirtuelles.com and the site exceeds 2 million annual visitors.06
X Pub & Dys
Villes Virtuelles signs a contract with a large communication agency, which promises future and exponential growth. The biggest commercial contract is signed, the Mont-Tremblant ski center becomes virtually visitable. Several small villages in Maine are added as well as the city of Boston and New York. A new tourist map in Quebec called VisiteQuebec.com is born; This map stands out from other maps thanks to its large, easy-to-read format. The few tens of thousands of copies will be liquidated in just a few weeks.A new foundation is founded to help dyslexics. The idea is to create a new education system and to make the problems encountered by dyslexics much more widely known. After having worked for several months or even years trying to develop a new specialized education system for young people with learning difficulties. We disagree that setting up the system is much too laborious and costly, despite the support we have from several teachers and speech therapists. The system is not ready to change and does not want to finance our project which could change the lives of thousands of children. The Foundation will remain with the vocation of simply making dyslexia a little better known, of promoting the successes of the Dys and promoting the support services for the Dys.
06-07
The scam
After several months of hard work in collaboration with the new communication agency, no money is returned to the parent company. The company is about to close, but an amicable agreement terminates the contract with compensation and we manage to quickly remedy the situation.contagieux.net inc. creates See Your Hotel, a brand new revolutionary online accommodation reservation system for its time. It allows you for the first time to see the location of hotels on an interactive map. Today this technology is applied all over the world and it has become commonplace. SeeYourHotel will be sold to a partner the same year.
07
A crazy year
VisiteQuebec.com becomes the second largest distributor of private tourist cards in Quebec with 350,000 tourist cards distributed in 4 months. The map is distributed by all the major tourist agencies in Quebec City such as AML, Tours du Pont, Tours du Vieux-Québec... The tourist map is considered revolutionary in the industry, with its color codes, locations to take the best photos, a tour offered to tourists, the history of the neighborhoods and more. This concept will be copied later by almost all tourist card companies in the world.Visite Québec is working in collaboration with the owner of Le Maurice, Denis Perltier and the associations of the city of Québec, to create a new technology that could revolutionize the world of tourism using Pocket-pc and Wi-Fi hotspots.
07-08
Google Street view & iphone
Google launches Street View which puts an end to the development of virtual cities since competition is impossible against this giant. The development of virtual tours in the form of 360 is coming to an end in the city of Philadelphia. Having developed more than 20 tourist sites and taken more than 1 million photos, on the East Coast of Canada and the United States.Apple launches the very 1st iPhone which puts an end to the development of our revolutionary application on Pocket-PCs. The project will remain in the form of a demonstrator and will never see the light of day officially by Visite Québec.
Contagieux.net transfers its clientele from the Marketing agency to the Boite Bleue. The company will only concern itself with developing the marketing of its own related activities.
08
The guide
Villes Virtuelles launches the 1st virtual guided tour in the form of an interactive video, the idea being to do something new, which Google will not be able to recreate quickly. But the problem is that this technique is expensive in bandwidth and takes a lot of time to set up. Even until recently there was still no equivalent to this type of project in the world.Visite Quebec is launching a free downloadable mp3 guide and will be downloaded over 30,000 times upon release.
09
The restaurants
Takeover of the Sushi Fly restaurant banner, which was one of the largest sushi banners in Quebec in the 2000s, and the purchase of shares in 3 restaurants and 1 pub, located in old Quebec.10
One more
Opening of a new Sushi restaurant at the Ste-Foy Pyramid.Creation of a new chocolate factory in Nouvo St-Roch
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Equipment and sales
Creation of the 44resto company, which offers a wide range of services to restaurateurs. Its main service is the purchase and resale of catering equipment at low prices.Sale of several restaurants and shares in restaurants in Old Quebec.
12-13
End of an era
The company 44 restaurants and the Sushi Fly restaurants are sold. 2 of the Sushi fly restaurants now bear the name of Ogarisan.The printing of the last VisitQuebec.com tourist card after more than 1,750,000 cards distributed in 6 years. The 2008 crisis is beginning to hurt Quebec in the tourism sector and it is better to pull the cards out of the game before it is too late.
VillesVirtuelles.com ends at the same time after more than 10 years and millions of visitors.
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The Studio
Boite Bleue invests in the purchase of new photo and video equipment to offer more diversified services. The offices are renovated with the addition of a photo and video studio.14-15
Asia
The Group is developing new relationships to expand its skills in Asia and develop certain activities there in the future.Launch of the new Royalty Free Club website which offers thousands of photos and textures.
Launch of the new All News Videos website This news platform sucks all the information from all the platforms that offer news videos in English. In a few months the site becomes unmanageable and much too big for us, with millions of information and millions of visitors per month after only 3 months. After 5 months the servers are no longer able to keep up and start to cost a fortune compared to what it brings in. We will end the project during the same year, after having received nearly 14 million visitors in a few months.
16-17
VWB24
After years in the field of advertising and web marketing, the desire to develop a new platform that could facilitate the sale of web services to all entrepreneurs who wish to offer Internet services to their customers. The new platform named VWB24 for (Virtual Web Builder 24h) is developed in partnership with a team located in Asia and Africa . The project was developed in parallel in Asia under another name (SBPro) and was sold a few years later to become Groove, which has more than half a million members today.Our VWB24 system visits two types of customers. The one who does not have Internet access but access to a cell phone and the others who already have a communication agency and who want to develop their clientele on a larger scale.
18-19
Every Marketplace
After working nearly 2 years on VWB24 and with people in Asia and Africa, we see that there is a very interesting market to develop in developing countries, for a new type of online sales system. We want to mark the occasion with Thailand to start, followed by the Philippines.The system we are going to develop can also be interesting in developed countries, but much more expensive to set up, which means that we are targeting developing countries for the first years.
20-21
The pandemic
After 2 years of development on this new system the project is ready to be presented in Thailand and a prototype of the e-commerce system will be made in Canada.A new site is launched Adisix, it will offer more than 350 models of sunglasses, with an inventory of more than half a million dollars.
When the Adisix project is launched and our team is supposed to travel to Asia to officially present the project to large markets, the covid-19 pandemic hits all over the world and the borders close in several countries. The project is in jeopardy and we are waiting to see what can be done, but we continue to develop the system anyway, thinking that this will be a temporary situation.
In the fall of 2020, the project is completely put on ice and the 11 people working on the project are terminated or put on hold for a potential future relaunch.
21-02
It should start again
In the spring of 2021, Adisix's business is sold to a competitor.We continue to keep in touch with all the other countries and try to see if it is possible to restart the project soon.
New projects in different fields of import export and others, are on the way for 2023.
1998
Le premier bureau
2014
All News Videos
2008
Les bureaux
2013
Les Bureaux
2001
Site de Contagieux.net avec les option de vitest de connexion
2010
Restaurant de Sushi
2013
Le studio
2009
Le Guide Mp3
2013
Photo d'un Chef pour une Pub
2006
Conception visuel et campagne marketing
2014
Tournage d'un dessin animé en studio
2020
Site de vente de lunnettes de soleil Adisix
2008
Le guide Mp3 avec la Carte Visite Quebec
2006 à 2010
Les cartes Visite Quebec
2014
Boutique de Bijoux KiKoJo
2010
Le Chocolat
2009
Art Micriscopique
2006
Conception visuel et campagne marketing
2009
Pub dans le Vieux-Québec
2011
Article dans le journal
2002
Les Début de Villes Virtuelles
2009
Bar à Sushi
2002
Les Début de Villes Virtuelles
2016
Compagnie de transport en Asie
2009
R'achat des restaurants Sushi FlyPhotos avant les rénovations suite à l'achat
2013
Rénovation des bureaux
2015
Les bureaux
2013
Prise de Time Lapse pour des clients
2007
Tournage vidéo à New York pour Visite New-York / Villes Virtuelles
2009
Restaurant de la Marina
2007
Pub pour la fondation Dyslexique
2015
Développement des affaires en Thaïlande avec Ismail & Malee
2015
Akom chauffeur et chercheur de bonnes occasions en Asie
2012
Soirée commandité
2012
Chef de renommée internationale Régis Marcon
2009-2010
Les premiers Chirashi (Poké Bols)
2014
Site d'analyse de DiLucas
2014
Séance photo pour un grand groupe
2016
Séance photo & vidéo
2017
Version 2.0 de VWB24
2005
Page d'accueil du site Web, Visite QUébec
2005
Visite vidéo et histoire d'un quartier sur Visite Québec / VV.c
2005
Page promotionnelle d'un restaurant sur Visite QUébec / VV.c
2009
Retaurant le Marie Clarisse
2018
Campagne promotionnelle de l'hôtel de glace de Québec
2014
Site All News Videos / Ton automobile, section automobile
2016
Radiance Squamish, un site de vente d'isolant
2003
Page d'accueil du site Web, Contagieux.net
2005
Logo d'un site de vente The Sex Toy
2001
Page D'accueil du site Web, Diverticement.net
2001
Page D'accueil du site Web, Art Québec
2009
Sushi Fly Hochelaga Montréal