t h e s i t e
Hopefully, at least, you know this site is mainly about quotations. That's what it was founded on, and that's what its future primary basis will be, as well. There are also other things you can do here besides read quotes - you can talk about them! We setup a message board for you guys to talk to each other.
We also provide a daily quotation to you in your e-mail every day - free of charge! Go to the join area on the left for more info on that. More to come soon..
t h e
p a s t
Around
September of 1998, an idea was formed. The brilliant idea was to
combine 2 pieces of bread and put a piece of meat between them.
Amazed that somebody had already thought of this idea, the man behind
it decided to act on another one. He would create a website. Not
just a regular one, either. One about quotations. And so he set
out to gather quotations, and to find all the FREE stuff he could
pertaining to his vision of the site. After a month or so of being
an AOL hosted site, Ryan Sim, founder of StormWeb,
asked if he wanted to venture
out with him. Ecstatic that he'd be on a real server, he gladly
obliged. The site became perl enhanced, and added a mailing list.
After being the site of a huge face-lift, qotd.org moved on to the
present,
and received yet another Jenny Jones make-over.
In
June of 2000, after the daily mailings had temporarily lapsed, G.
Armour Van Horn took over from the founder and upgraded a number
of things. The daily quote mailing became a quotes mailing, with
four or five quotes on a theme instead of a single random quote.
A month later Van designed an HTML version as an option. Two full
years later he finally realized that it was silly to pay for hosting
on StormWeb when he owned several other servers, moving the actual
site from Sarnia, Ontario to Whidbey Island, northwest of Seattle.
(Please note that this was a financial decision, Stormweb's service
continues to be excellent.)
t h e p r e s e n t
We
are getting increased recognition for the things we set out to get
it for. QOTD.org is becoming something good to be associated with.
Eyes are starting to focus on us. Even the media
has been caught staring. Our subscriber base for our daily quote
list is growing as is the number of visitors our site receives.
We are not yet where we want to be, but to read more about that,
read up on the future.
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h e f u t u r e
We want to be the number one quotation website out there. We want to be the number one site out there, period. We realize how hard this is,
but we're willing to do what it takes. Want to help us? Then, help us! If you don't want to help us, then at least read about the brains of this operation.
t h e b r a i n s
There
are three men behind this site. They are Brian Guerra, Ryan Sim,
and G. Armour Van Horn. Brian Guerra is the original founder of
this site, and provided all the original content. Ryan Sim is more
of the technical guy. He owned the first real server, and did all
the original programming and server-related development. "Van"
Van Horn took the site over in June of 2000, and hopes to continue
to come up with more innovative ideas to make the site better and
to make your experience more pleasurable. If you have a suggestion,
tell
us.
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