TenPOSTED JAN 1, 2011

I'd like to take a moment to thank egrabow.com's visitors, those reading my blog posts, reading the site's pages, downloading its resources, linking to it and otherwise driving up traffic. Ten years ago today, I bought my first domain name, giving myself only a few hours to decide what should come before the ".com". (I wanted the binary-ish launch date: 01/01/01) "EGrabow" was completely original, but, because of you, over ten years it came to mean so much.

Also on that day in 2001:

• I was in my freshman year of college
• Bill Clinton was president (for a few more weeks)
• Windows XP and Mac OS X were in beta testing
• Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter wouldn't exist for several years
• I was on dial-up, and so were most of us.
• Netscape was fading away, Firefox hadn't yet come. Internet Explorer was claiming over 80% of users.
• Internet Explorer 5, to be specific.
• what else... ah... gas was $1.38 a gallon.

In the eons since then, egrabow.com has grown into one of the premiere sites of the internet (as far as its webmaster is concerned). Many resources have been hosted here, including the Audio/Video Component Archive, the Logo Gallery, software I created such as Wake Up Pro , and of course, that novel thing I wrote . Until this year, it was a tradition for me to roll out a new version of egrabow.com on January 1st. For reasons explained here , though, 2010's version 28 will continue into 2011.

Well, okay. I decided to do something. The new smartphone presented me with the idea to give EG a mobile site, currently located at egrabow.com/m . Not much is there yet, but I expect that to change over the course of this new year. Trying new stuff is what I've been doing here for 10 years, after all, and I'm eager to see what I pull off in the next 10.

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