Happy Early Birthday to TUG! Hmmm.... 6 years... traditional gift would be... oh my:
*6th Anniversary * *Traditional Gifts:* Candy or Iron *Modern Gifts: *Wood* *Seriously?* * On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been meaning to post this for a long time. This is just an F.Y.I. > history lesson to the veterans and the rookies of this The Unique Geek > listserv. > Come November of this year, The Unique Geek will be six years old. > It all started on a Linux web server I had running out of my bedroom at > home. theuniqugeek.com domain wasn't even around yet but our geek forum > was running in YaBB on a generic domain that no longer exist. I purchased > theuniquegeek.com in February of 2005 and then moved the forum to phpBB on > a hosted server. Sometime toward the end of 2005 (I think), someone had > the crazy idea of starting a podcast. If I remember correctly, we recorded > episode #1 of The Unique Geek podcast sometime at the beginning of 2006. > Then, some other crazy person had the idea of moving our forum to Google > Groups for the listserv functionality. > When we first started out on YaBB in my bedroom, we had, maybe, 7 of us in > the group...wait...that doesn't sound right. You know what I mean. Since > then the group, according to Google Groups, has grown to over 200. Of > course, out of those numbers, realistically, and consistently, we've have > about 50 or so in our group (does that number sound right Serv, Shag, and > Jon?). > May we live strong, and stronger, for another 6 years and beyond. > > -- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosby > http://www.edwardcrosby.com > ----- > "There are no atheists in foxholes or firmware updates." > Merlin Mann > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- Jennifer "Scraps" Walker Queen of the Helper Monkeys Better living through creativity... and cocktails! http://www.scrapsoflife.com/blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
