Links Corner 20th Anniversary!

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Links Corner 20th Anniversary!

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It can’t be far off!
Question is, does anyone know when it is?
We should have a party! :kicking: :cheers1:
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16th of September 2022.
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Slattery wrote: January 23rd, 2020, 5:41 am 16th of September 2022.
It would be at some point this year. I don’t know when.
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Ahh Linkscorner sorry. I was talking about Links 2003.
Not sure.
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Andy,

What date did Links Corner start?
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Paul44 wrote: February 2nd, 2020, 7:49 pm Andy,

What date did Links Corner start?
I'm not really sure. I only got involved with LC as an Admin in 2002/3. I'm guessing it started up a few years before that but I have no records to prove it.

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I signed on here the middle of 2001, Scotty was already here.
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It opened in 2000, I know that, I was here right at the beginning. The anniversary is this year.
LC had a promo page up for quite a while before it officially opened it's doors. I had the site bookmarked and was waiting for it to open.
I don't know the day or month when it launched.
I'll do some research and see the earliest/closest date I can find.
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Best I can find is July, 2000. I think there is a very good possibility it opened July 1st. I almost have a vague memory of it although I can't totally trust the memory. I think July 1st is the date that should be celebrated and there is a very high possibility it is the totally accurate date.

Some original LC members who I found registered in July of 2000:

Adam Heili
GS_Ron
Jerry Garlisch
supergolfdude
williamk

I remember all of the above members. They were really great days here. It was the most enjoyable forum I'd ever been on in my lifetime.

The original site owner/admin was Christopher Blanchard.
Chris would be the one to thank for where we are today, for the past 20 years and Andy for still keeping it all going. :cheers1:
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And here, the early days. I just clicked some random dates. You can see a little of the site and webboard if you click on it as well. They weren't forums back in those days. :laugh:

You can also see the transition between forum software in the links.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010119180 ... orner.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20020220105 ... orner.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20040321110 ... orner.com/

Take a look at how many admin and mods in the second link. Below are the forum stats from that snap. Numbers for the forums here at LC are always a little skewed and LC appeared less busy to what it actually was. Things kept resetting every time the forum software was changed so stats are not a true representation of how busy it got here. Looking at the number of admin and mods gives you a better indication.

Activity was always very high for quite a while after Links 2003 release. Be fun to have 33 topics a day and 215 posts a day to skim through today! Like I said, this was random, peak periods of the forum were at times through the roof:

Total Page Views: 1312155
Total Posts: 78468
Total Topics: 12143
Total Forums: 30
Total Members: 3468
Average Posts per Member: 23
Average Posts per Forum: 2616

Average Topics per Forum: 405
Topics per Day: 33.360
Posts per Day: 215.571
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