How this site was created

thanks arn. you've really done a good job with it, i'm impressed.

 

I came in, thought the thread was about the history of macrumors.... In any case is there any post about that?

 

Me too! I thought the same thing...

By the way let me say I really like the look of Macrumors.
Bravo Arn...!

 

Ditto on the last two comments. I'm interested in the history of MacRumors. I was visiting long before I actually registered. But I'm curious what the inspiration was to start this site up (other than obviously being Mac fans). What was the motivation to start something new rather than contributing to a site that already existed? How did MacRumors become so popular? Was it a collaborative effort? How did the site get going? Etc., etc....

 

Well in the beginning God ... err Jobs and Woz, whatever... created Apple and it was good. Then Arn said, "Geez what are they going to do next?" and Macrumors was born.

 

Quick Google search came up with this:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-29267.html

 

Cool.

It's funny that this link didn't come up when I literally entered "MacRumors History" into the search box on the top of this page.

 

I think cos it's an archived post. Either the system doesn't search through the archives or it's all the way at the back of the search results.

I always find using Google for forum searches is far faster than directly searching in the forum. I'm also not prohibited by that annoying one search per 10 seconds rule! It's amazing how quickly Google has new posts in its index.