On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:12:38 -0000, Phil Lee
>> The Google Usenet archive ( http://groups.google.com ) now reaches way
>> back to 1981, with (they say) 700 million posts. They've even given a
>> little timeline of "significant events":
>> http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
>> That's all very well, but where are these far more significant events?:
> How about this, the first mention of the GPLRank site on RAS, posted by me
> on 3rd June 2000:
> "I just found a new GPL site, GPLRank. Tim Wheatley gave its details on his
> site. The site features a database which calculates your GPL handicap from
> your player.ini file and provides an online ranking system. Very clever!
> Thanks to Uwe Schuerkamp for putting it together. Excellent work.
> Unfortunately I am languishing in 46th place out of 52 so if all you
> slowpokes out there could submit times it would make my handicap look less
> bad. Eldred this means you!
Yeah well, the word slipped, and what was intended to be a
"beta test" by some of my league members (Tim was racing with
us in the Screamers during those days if I recall correctly)
resulted in 100 new users on the first day!
I was rather stunned by so many people accessing the site, and
I vividly remember Don Scurlock asking if I was ready for the
"thousands of drivers" hitting it in a year from then. I never
thought we could end up at the 6,000+ accounts we have now,
around 1,000 of which are being used actively on any one day.
Wow.
Cheers,
uwe
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