4th January 2003
That's actually kinda scary to think about. Particularly that the site has existed [with a couple of server crashes here and there, of course] for over three million minutes. Which means that, on average, we've had three people hit the site per minute since the beginning of 1997.
Six years old.
About half of those hits were probably BangBang reloading the messageboard to see whether anyone cared that he existed--back when he existed. But it's still neat to think about, granting that there's never been any sort of advertising for the site.
Which isn't entirely true anymore. We've got a few people prominently linking to gremlin.net from their own sites. Including ArtUtopia.com, which randomly cycles through the few posters I've got done to date. I've really got to set something up with Rodney, over at TShirtCountdown.com, as well. When I have time for it.
Anyway: thanks to everyone who's hit, linked to, and complained about gremlin.net over the last six years. Now to sit back and see what happens between now and 4th January 2009....
--Gremlin
Doesn't seem like that long, does it?
In six years, I think this site's been through something like three servers. And, obviously, thirteen versions.
The only thing I really remember about the earlier versions [and the first server] is that chatroom. I didn't bother with the messageboard until after I'd met Gremlin, and even then, not for a while.
There are a few things that the old regulars would remember. The moving of the board into a 'private area', because of a conflict that got brought to the board, which led to the "Shadows of the Grempire" thing.
And who could forget Utahraptor...no matter how hard we try.
What the hell else happened....
Wow; we're fourth on google.com. That's neat.
Gotta work on the attention span....
Yeah, so, anyway. Six. 2,190 days. Or would that be 2,191. There's probably a leapyear in there somewhere. Something like 52,584 hours. 3,155,040 minutes. 189,302,400 seconds. And finally we get to a number that looks like it exceeds the number of hits this site's gotten.
And all without a goddamn CG Gecko....
There goes that attention span again.
...and now that I've managed to remember to finish this...I celebrated the day by shattering Chainsaw's innocent and pure view of reality. How did I do that?
You really don't wanna know, do you?
Baron would be so proud of me.
I hope you all find a way to enjoy this most holy of days. Or somethin'....
This probably wasn't what Gremlin had in mind when he told me to write a What's New. And I'll probably get lynched for the Chainsaw thing....
Whee....
~Hunter