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AfterDawn.com's 7th birthday

9 June 2006 23:22 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 64 comments

Wow. Yet another year has passed and our website is now officially seven years old. In the world where thousands of websites get launched each week and thousands of sites fold as well, it seems like an eternity. But man, it has been fun seven years..

During the last seven years, pretty much everything that relates to our site's ancient history, the original idea behind the site, etc has been told, analyzed and discussed, so lets not get into that this time. Instead, looking back the year that has passed, I can say that it has been one of the most turbulent years during our site's existance.

Obviously, the fact that Finland adopted the EUCD legislation and the change forced us to remove huge amount of content from our site was the worst part of our sixth year. On good side of things, we have been extremely lucky finding good people to expand our excellent admin team -- Kata, Siggy, DaveDough, Lethal_B, Agent_007 and Juha have all made our team stronger and I'm sure that with team like that we can expect bright future for sites.

Despite the new legislation hitting our site badly (traffic slumped about 30 percent from December to February), our annual traffic has still managed to grow nicely, with the help of new content and new site sections. We have several improvements and new site areas coming up and we're confident that our site will be among top multimedia sites in the world also in the future.

I would like to thank all of my fellow admins, our excellent team of forum moderators and of course, all of our users, for making this site one of the top digital multimedia sites in the world.

Now, our Finnish team members will practice the habit that foreigners call "binge drinking" and we just call "having a good time"..

On behalf of AfterDawn Ltd,

-Petteri Pyyny, webmaster

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coolGray (Member) 10 June 2006 18:19
@NINVIN21 check this out for the old-skool afterdawn. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.afterdawn.com @vgaddict8 I think your right....internet archive dosent even show AD coming until Jan 26, 2000! Your right! they are lieing. Unless they were under a different domain then. CG http://www.gray-zone.net -Site, Blog, and Stuff....cool. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- http://www.myspace.com/GLrox ~!~ http://ipodwizard.co.nr ~!~ [ + quote]
_FuRiOuS_ (Member) 10 June 2006 19:00
sweet man, happy birthday afterdawn !!! [ + quote]
Cinnjerm (Junior Member) 10 June 2006 19:17
Haven't been a member but a few months, but i appreciate the hard work everyone puts into keeping me up to date with information. Thanx Afterdawn and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! [ + quote]
vgaddict8 (Inactive) 10 June 2006 19:20
I knew it.... Someone at afterdawn was having too much of grandpa's old caugh medicine when he was counting. I love those old afterdawn links.......everyone sure does have humble beginnings. [ + quote]
audiofile (Newbie) 10 June 2006 19:21
How funny you all have been. When I clicked on one of those dates coolGray gave http://web.archive.org/web//http://www.afterdawn.com, it doesn't show anything, (except it does say: The page you requested could not be found) BUT when do you click on a link on that page it does seem they do work. (Look at what I circled at the right) http://i6.tinypic.com/140m2p2.jpg (Look at the Nero 5.5) So, YES it does seem they have been around for some time. There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it. - Ron Wood - Rolling Stones - Faces [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 10 June 2006 19:23*
vgaddict8 (Inactive) 10 June 2006 19:29
Looks like afterdawn.com's increase in budget and this websites interface design wasn't availabe till December 22, 2003-That's probably when afterdawn's popularity increased. [ + quote]
vgaddict8 (Inactive) 10 June 2006 19:31
Also looks like videogame backup forums didn't become available till like december 2003-Jan 2004-ish. [ + quote]
vgaddict8 (Inactive) 10 June 2006 19:51
coolGray, where did you find that site? You are a complete genius? That site rocks.... I can put the missing parts in my life back together... LOL!!!! CoolGray.... the web.archieve.org site link you gave is a life changing moment for me. THANK YOU MASTER!!!!!!!!!! [ + quote]
ofolion (Senior Member) 10 June 2006 23:50
Happy Birthday!!! Keep it up :-) [ + quote]
Pop_Smith (Senior Member) 11 June 2006 0:09
Congrats dRD, your site is the coolest I have seen in the history of the web. I hope your site continues to grow and develop forever. Congrats to all the new admin(s)/mod(s)/staff member(s). Although the only name I really recognize is Lethal_B, I am sure all of the members know their fair share of useful info to help the site become even better. HAPPY BIRTHDAY aD, I hope this comes with MANY MANY more birthdays throughout the years. :) Peace, Pop Smith [ + quote]
krimu (Admin) 11 June 2006 1:36
Just for a clarification, Afterdawn was founded in 1999. One might want to read this: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/5307.cfm [ + quote]
NINVIN21 (Senior Member) 11 June 2006 7:27
coolGray Thank you thats unreal!!!! also thank you krimu I didnt get to read the link yet but I will. time traveling is great. [ + quote]
Dogman5 (Member) 11 June 2006 7:56
I have only been a member for a very short time but I want to thank all that have posted replys on things I have asked of AD. Even though I have worked on computers for several years and consider myself fairly smart on computer items I have learned alot on here from some of the great people here and wish to say thanks to all and Happy Birthday AD wish you all the best. keep up the great work... [ + quote]
vgaddict8 (Inactive) 11 June 2006 11:53
"founded"? So I guess it was founded in 1999 but the website didn't start till 2000. Ah............... [ + quote]
jziman (Inactive) 11 June 2006 13:37
Dident know it has been around that long. But any way Long live AD!!! [ + quote]
hughjars (Inactive) 12 June 2006 3:47
Happy birthday and thank you so much. [ + quote]
waiski (Admin) 12 June 2006 8:20
Even wayback machine doesn't remember this far ;) http://my.afterdawn.com/waiski/show_image.cfm/5646/full/adv1 http://i.afterdawn.com/v3/5yrs/afterdawn_screenshot_1.jpg edit: added second screenshot Janne Nissinen Admin [ + quote] This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 12 June 2006 8:44
hermes_vb (Senior Member) 12 June 2006 9:11
Congratulations AD!!!! Best wishes from Puerto Rico and keep the good work. [ + quote]
rav0 (Junior Member) 12 June 2006 22:49
Quote: internet archive dosent even show AD coming until Jan 26, 2000! Your right! they are lieing. Unless they were under a different domain then. The Internet Archive not having a copy of afterdawn doesn't prove that it didn't exist. [ + quote]
rav009 (Senior Member) 13 June 2006 8:18
@waiski, Bloody heck, it's crazy to think that a site that the one you posted a screen of could trun into this, a half a million plus community...excelent work all the aD team :) Lol @ the "Your computer desktop is boring click here to donload FREE photos" add's :D Another peice of art from our friend DVDBack23 He's the guy for sig's nowadays ;) [ + quote]
waiski (Admin) 14 June 2006 4:34
rav009: it was a humble start :) [ + quote]
dsstrlght (Newbie) 15 June 2006 17:24
This is so cool to see! Happy Birthday Afterdawn and thanks to those who posted the looks at the past. [ + quote]
retepa (Newbie) 15 June 2006 17:51
Let me be the last to wish AFTER DAWN HAPPPPYYYY BIRTHDAY !!! and mannnny more. Thank You Very Much for telling it like it is. [ + quote]
Ghostdog (Senior Member) 16 June 2006 1:57
Wow, the years are going by so fast. It really doesn�t seem that long since the 6th birthday. [ + quote]
Troten (Member) 17 June 2006 14:07
Congratz Afterdawn! I've been a member for a little while and now I don't know what I would do without this awesome site! Let's keep it going strong! [ + quote]
brainstrm (Newbie) 18 June 2006 19:44
Happy Birthday !!! ( and congrats Lethal B! ) Project : Brainstorm downloads are way up ! Almost 6000 to date !!! Thanks again for the new weblog page feature ! http://my.afterdawn.com/ I have very much enjoyed having a Afterdawn page with pictures and links to accompany my MP3lizard.com page ! Looking forward to the new features at MP3lizard.com also ! The people at Afterdawn.com put in a lot of time and effort on their sites and it shows ! Good luck and keep up the good work ! m/. .m/ Thanks Afterdawn.com / MP3lizard.com !!! http://my.afterdawn.com/project_brainstorm/ [ + quote]