Happy birthday, Boing Boing! It's been ten years since Mark posted the first-ever Blogger-powered item to boingboing.net, and it's been a hell of a ride ever since. I literally can't imagine what it would be like to stop blogging today, nor what my life would be like if I hadn't had the chance to post tens of thousands of items here since I came onboard some nine years ago.
55,000+ posts later, I still feel like we've barely scratched the surface of the Internet's inexhaustible supply of "wonderful things." You know, you sometimes hear people talking about how crap everything on the net is (sometimes, they'll add "except all the 'stolen' professional content") and I wonder, "Are these people looking at a different Internet than the one that I get?"
Here's to a decade of Boing Boing, to my co-editors, Mark, Xeni and David, to all our contributors, Rob, Lisa, Brandon and Maggie, our longtime business manager John Battelle, and especially to Ken, Dean and every other largely unsung techie who's gotten out of bed at two in the morning to kick our servers into submission.
And here's to a billion more years of glorious blogging!
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Congrats! =)
Happy birthday!!!!! Thanks for these wonderful years full of news and interesting articles
Reader since 2002, thanks to all the the editors and contributors. You all rock.
Happy birthday! I've very much enjoyed the range of political and social topics you've made me aware of.
Ever since Firefox appeared on the scene with the feature of making multiple tabs/sites one's "Home" page, BB has had its own dedicated tab here on my desktop. I have since moved on to Chrome but my tab configuration is the same.
* Salon.com
* GMail
* Boston.com - (local favorite)
* Sadly, No
* BoingBoing
* Facebook
Other favorites have come and gone over the years. BoingBoing is still among the "meat and potatoes" of my online life.
Thank you, Team BoingBoing, for continuing to produce this wonderful site.
Adam Stanhope
Kingston, Massachusetts
Happy Birthday and thanks for the consistently awesome blogging!
Kudos and thanks. I promise I'll read your novel soon.
You guys have brought a decade of geeky shimmery goodness. Thank you all.
Thanks for those wonderful ten years.
Greetings, LX
Been reading since 2001 when Cory posted my LOTR blog review. You guys changed the face of the internet and have educated and entertained me for a decade. I love it. Thanks for everything.
The Tenth Anniversary of Boing-Boing?
I'll drink to that!
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday!
Best blog on the interwebs. Here's to 10 more.
Daudz Laimes Dzimšanas Dienā, BoingBoing! Novēlu tev vēl 1000 gadu dzīvot! Ar sveicieniem no Latvijas!
Happy Birthday, BoingBoing! Wish You 1000 years more! Greetings from Latvia!
What, you aren't counting the paper Zine years? I loved those! They're on a honored shelf of my bookcase right now.
Happy Birthday! Please don't stop after only a billion more years. :-)
I'm a relative noob, but have come back time and time again since discovering boingboing, so many warm fuzzies with my Happy Birthday wish :)
Like all great publications, you are by turns brilliant and annoying, engaging and meh, very next and occasionally not-again.
If BoingBoing were perfect, I'd hate it. If it were crappy, I'd never visit.
Instead, I plug into its raw, bustling, chockablock pulse several times a day, and it never fails to inform, delight, tickle and challenge me.
Congrats on being relentlessly great and unfailingly vital for 10 solid years. Keep on, mutants, keep on.
a truly happy one !
& thanks for everything !!!
Thank you all for taking the trip with us!!!
Happy Birthday, Boing Boing! We love you!
XOX
Susannah
alas I've not been hanging about here all that long as i'm a relatively new netizen, but this has certainly become one of my haunts:
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Thanks, BoingBoing, for helping me be less productive at work!
Happy Big One OH! Keep up the good work!
You guys rock, Every Day. Thanks. And congratulations indeed!
Happy 10th birthday! I put a Unicorn Pony in the mail, let me know when she gets there!
Been reading for...a year maybe? Now I'm hooked. Reading and watching all the wonderful things here could become a full-time occupation in itself.
My ambition is to be a guest blogger some day.
'Twas on your tenth birthday I finally opened an account - to wish you Happy Birthday!
i remember when the front page wasn't covered with ads
i remember when the staff promised they would only add a few ads to cover expenses.
Wow, ten years!???
Amazing... congratulations on keeping it up. I actually first heard from this website from one of my favorite musicians, Eric Avery. It only took a couple of minutes for me to inaugurate my RSS bar with Boing Boing.
Congratulations to all! And thanks for the incredible content.
Hppy Brthdy!
Many Happy Returns!
It seems a lot longer, but then I started off reading the bOING bOING the zine and the early Boing Boing web page.
Congrats, Boing Boing!
I still remember hearing about The Happy Mutant Handbook a little over 10 years ago and buying it immediately from my university's bookstore. That really opened my eyes to a lot of cool stuff.
Keep on rockin'...
Happy Birthday BB, one of my few daily go-to sites! May you all get wealthy from making us happy!
thank you.
Here's to another 10 years of evolving and adapting an entire inter-web's worth of Happy Mutants!
Happy birthday!
Thank you for all the fun I have had through your pages over the years.
Congratulations to everyone involved, especially the gang of 4.
I remember when I printed the whole conversation following your call for suggestions for generating revenues. So many people pitched in. It's part of Internet History.
And then the knight John appeared on his white horse and it became the gang of 5.
And now this huge media, still growing, still experimenting, and each of yous still curious and passionate, developing other areas of interest, other domains of exploration, other businesses.
This is fun and beautiful.
Congratulations!
10 more years!
I looked up Boing Boing on Wayback Machine and the first post entry was actually from 1998...?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.boingboing.net
Happy b'day; you should also do a print 'zine. I'd 'scribe.
Happy birthday Boing Boing and thanks!
What along strange trip it's been....
Keep on truckin'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
I still have print copies of Boing Boing in a sealed bucket. All but 4 of them, I think. Thanks for those early years and everything since. (I always liked Boing Boing better than Mondo2k)
Major w00ts to the cool cats that make up BB. I started reading this blog when it was in its infancy (and I was in high school!) and I will go so far as to say that it really has opened up my mind to a lot of things that I would have otherwise avoided. More than that, it's encouraged my ideas that the net has so much good in it, even when that good is simply the act of exposing the bad.
Cheers to all, and here's to many more.
If you look at the last archive.org'd page from 1999 and compare to the first one from 2000, you'll see how it changed from the zine's website to a blog.
Remarkable. I'm from 5 miles away and keep nearly the same bookmarks. Have you tried eschaton?
also, congrats BB!
Happy anniversary! Here's to the next 10 years.
Congrats dudes from Barcelona (Catalonia). I love the stuff you share every day.
Happy, happy BB! May the greatness continue many more decades. Thanks for all the fun!
Happy 10th Birthday Boing Boingers!!! Now when are you going to post that great link I submitted 6 or 7 years ago about that cool thing?
Happy anniversary!
Congratulations folks, you've really blazed a new trail that many new publishers have followed. To bricolage!
Thanks for cheering me up day after day. :-)
P.S. This year don't forget to celebrate Towel Day! Slashdot remembered, but Boing Boing seems to have forgotten all about it.
Congratulations, and thanks for the fun. I'll continue to provide links when I come across something good.
Goddamn good work you bastards!
Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Man, I don't know how long I've been reading BB - more than 5 years, less than 10. I do know:
- You guys consistently make my day, sometimes more than once per day day.
- I've read some incredible books based on your recommendations - thanks!
- I've probably forwarded over a hundred links found here to various friends
- You've had me and coworkers laughing at the office more than any other... anything... I can think of
- You've expanded my awareness of the online and creative issues I care about
- I've donated to a bunch of organizations based upon news and/or recommendations noted here
- You have been in many cases a surprisingly great source of quality news
- You address my inner science and science fiction fiend, helping stretch my mind on what the futures will be (I think I read about the Singularity for the first time here)
- You have one of the rare comment sections online that is actually enjoyable to read (go Boingers!)
- Your work has probably resulted in hundreds of millions of hours of "lost productivity" for businesses, and hundreds of millions of "free thinking points" (quoting my own made-up metric) for individuals.
Yeah, so keep doing all that. It's really good.
gratz guys. and i'll always remember that i first managed to get disemvowled on yer b-day. hehe.
Congrats!!
congrats BB! I gues that means it's been 10 years since I started reading you too.
Congratulations!!
You've made me a better person
Thanks
Mazal tov!
My boyfriend turned me on to boingboing and I am thankful for that it is the most interesting and humorous site there is, I read it every morning to start my day...HAPPY BIRTHDAY and thanks mucho
And it gets more wonderfuller with EVERY POST.
Yeah, I was only 12 when I bought the Happy Mutant Handbook...it was under the humor section, and boy am I glad it was. Taught me much...
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