Back in 1998, I remember Chris Sutton and Dave Baxter being gratified that my brother John and I agreed to load a bunch of text and photos into their new platform called SiteSuite, and thus help them show off SiteSuite's functionality to potential customers. Though always total professionals (which means resisting laughing directly in my face
), they must have been rolling their eyes that the subject matter was golf course architecture. Talk about B-O-R-I-N-G. To prove them wrong, I immediately adopted five or six aliases within the Discussion Group as a way of creating a virtual beehive of activity.
Yet, here we are today - who would have thought?!!! Because golf course architecture was already taken, Mark Zuckerburg was relegated to starting a more generic site
.
We probably past 1,000,000 posts a few months ago as we periodically purge the off topic threads as a way to save some space. Bottom line: It took from June, 1999 until March, 2011 to reach 1,000,000 golf course architecture related posts. Wonder how long to reach 2,000,000? Unlike in June 1999 when GolfClubAtlas.com finally went live, there are many, many forms of media vying for your precious time. Some like Zuckerburg's even have a higher market cap and a few more bells and whistles.
We understand that and thus Ben and I thank each and every one of you for continuing to help 'promote frank commentary on golf course architecture.'
Cheers,