Happy Birthday WinCustomize!
From tiny niche site, to community giant!
Thursday, March 13, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
According to what I've been able to dig out of the Internet Wayback Machine, today is WinCustomize's 7th birthday!
Originally launched on March 13th, 2001 in the aftermath of the dot-com bust that took out many popular skinning sites, specifically the original Skinz.org, WinCustomize is now the largest site on the Internet dedicated to GUI Customization with over 1 million pageviews per day, serving visitors from all over the globe.
Today, our combined galleries hold over 75,000 user-submitted skins and screenshots, we recently passed our 3,000,000th registered user and our forums are more active and friendly than they've been in years. Who would have thought, 7 years ago, that WinCustomize and skinning would be where it is today?
Where were you when WinCustomize launched? Were you a refugee from another skin site, or had you not yet discovered the joys of OS customization?
It's definitely been a wild ride, with the site and community undergoing a lot of changes over the years. It's been a great seven years, and here's to at least seven more!
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Reply #23 Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:00 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAT .... WINCUSTOMIZE
Reply #26 Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:40 PM
And I want to say.. Ahppy BIRTHDAT WINC
I didnt even have a PC at 2001. Its the first and single site where I do skinning, enjoy forums and have some cool friends. I do think that this site is great. This community teaches a lot not only about skinning but also about personal life. Long Live Wincustomize.
Reply #28 Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:46 PM
Reply #31 Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:09 PM
Heres to another 7 and many more !!!!
Reply #32 Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:21 PM
Reply #33 Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:25 PM
I've been here all along and I'm sure not going anywhere. I want to thank all the poeple who have kept this site running and all the great artists who have given of their time and talents to brighten my computing environment.
My sincerest appreciation, one and all!
Reply #35 Friday, March 14, 2008 7:13 AM
Where was I?
I remember spending some 'silly time' debugging the upload system...for Opera.... T-Man had me up at all ungodly hours uploading all sorts of crud....to get it to work.
It was effectively day Zero....'go here we're about to go public', or something like that...and I've been here ever since.
My 'Moderator' anniversary is in this July....7 years...but to be fair...this weekend is my 29th consecutive F1 Grand Prix...so I guess I'm just one of 'the stayers'...
Congrats, WC....it's been a joy....
Reply #37 Friday, March 14, 2008 8:48 AM
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Reply #21 Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:20 AM