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September 19, 2007

10 Years of Rohdesign.com

This morning iCal beeped at me, as it sometimes does, though today's message kinda surprised me:

rohdesign.com 10 is years old!

Wow, 10 years! Time has passed qucikly since registering rohdesign.com in 1997.

So much has changed. When I first registered the domain, I was using Adobe PageMill to build my sites, fighting with layout quirks and strange code that seemed to appear when layouts got a bit too complex. What painful days they were.

I had a "Home Page" back then, and I was migrating from a tiny bit of space on AOL's servers, provided as a subscriber. I'd run into limitations with the space, was struggling with PageMill and it was time to take the next step.

I was playing with BBEdit by then, learning how HTML code worked, how to create fast-loading images, exploring FTP posting to my new space with Anarchie.

1997 was also the year I seriously considered joining Matt Henderson in his new company ExpoNet, which later became MakaluMedia, and visited Germany for the 3rd time, to attend the wedding of my friends Martin and Thea.

It's wild to see how far the web has come since 1997, and how I and my friends have changed in 10 years. In some ways I could never have imagined how different 2007 would look, while in other ways, how many things have remained the same.

Happy birthday Rohdesign.com! :-)

September 19, 2007 5:11 PM | Observations | add to del.icio.us

Comments

Congratulations Mike! What a great 10 years of Rohdesign.

Posted by: Jordan Arentsen at September 19, 2007 5:49 PM

In 2017 I will post on your 20 years cellebration newsbit with a Minority-Report-like interface! :) Congrats :)

Posted by: Carlos at September 19, 2007 6:53 PM

Congratulatons Mike! 10 years is a long time to keep a site going single-handed -- no mean feat!

Posted by: Neal Dench at September 19, 2007 11:24 PM

This is a very important achievement! My warmest congratulations for your good work ... and please do not stop it ;-)

Posted by: Javier at September 20, 2007 2:09 AM

Congratulations Mike!

I think I found your site 'back in the day' when I was still into Palms and have enjoyed it ever since and the music recommendations even more...

Here's to the next 10 years.

Posted by: David Hughes at September 20, 2007 3:15 AM

Wow Mike, 10 years of fun here at Rohdesign! Very nifty look back. The furthest I could find going back in the archives was when you said you were engaged to Gail. Small change since then, huh? Nice "landing page" too.

Here's to at least 10 more years of great design, great sketches, and great thinking!

Posted by: Phil Gerbyshak at September 20, 2007 6:58 AM

Wow, ten years! What a great achievement. Congratulations, Mike.

Posted by: John Topley at September 20, 2007 9:06 AM

Hey guys, thanks so much for your kind words! Hard to believe 10 years has gone by... on to the next 10!

Posted by: Mike Rohde at September 20, 2007 11:12 PM

Congrats and more decades of pixel-pushing to come!

Posted by: Allan Reyes at September 21, 2007 3:18 AM

Thanks Allan! :-)

Posted by: Mike Rohde at September 21, 2007 10:18 AM

Congrats! Impressive time to be bloggin'

Posted by: Juan at September 21, 2007 2:11 PM

10 years....Congratulations!
Cheers from chinchorrero

Posted by: chinchorrero at September 21, 2007 5:17 PM

Congrats Mike!

Posted by: Rubén Lozano at September 22, 2007 7:32 PM

Thanks guys!

Posted by: Mike Rohde at September 24, 2007 3:26 PM

Congratulations and Bravo Mike,
From cycling to coffee to Palm related musings, I've enjoyed every entry since I found your site six years ago. Thanks for sharing so much of yourself with all of us around the world. Your site remains in my "Best of the Best" bookmarks folder.
Here's to your next ten.
Cheers,
Neil, Vancouver,BC

Posted by: Neil at September 24, 2007 4:38 PM

Thanks for the kind words Neil!!

Posted by: Mike Rohde at October 2, 2007 12:49 AM