Birthday

Posted by stephen on Wednesday, 21st June, 2006 @ 23:10

In about a month it'll have been a year since I brought this website back to life. And amazingly I've actually managed to maintain it to some standard this time round (the third attempt since I first registered the domain). My posting has been a little sporadic, some months have gone with very little said, and the last few days seem to have received huge input. Overall though, I'm pretty happy with how this first year has gone. So thanks to everyone who has the patience to actually read it, comment on it and inspire me with ideas for it.

What I didn't realise until a couple of days ago is that, like the Queen, this site has two birthdays. And they are remarkably close together. On July 18th it'll be one year exactly since my first post to this incarnation of the site. But as my recent domain renewal reminded me, on July 14th it'll be 6 years exactly since I registered the freakymousemats.com domain for the first time.

It's amazing how much my life has changed since then, and yet in some ways remained the same (Richard). Anyway, to commemorate the occasion (how self important of me), I've dugg into archive.org and grabbed some screenshots of the four incarnations of freakymousemats.com (including the unpopular, but I still like it, attempt at replacing this version). Click on the original version below to take a look...