Here's the extended timeline I made, plus the rest of the quotes that wouldn't all fit in teh video:



24 May 2003: Hacked

28 May 2003:
Conversations with MM and Dan

2 June 2003 (notice goes out to staff)
11pm: 8 members, 66 posts

3 June 2003 (word leaked)
4pm: 27 members, 175 posts

4 June 2003 (site public)
9am: 73 members, 506 posts
7pm: 132 members, 1,078 posts

5 June 2003:
1am: 156 members, 1,602 posts
6pm: 183 members, 2,280 posts

6 June 2003:
200th member joins

13 June 2003 (2 weeks in)
274 members, 6,685 posts
Front page goes live

3 July 2003: Theme song created

15 July 2003 (90 days in)
333 members, 16,301 posts

31 July 2003: Sig generator relaunched

1 August 2003: SM Bytes begin!
2 August 2003: KeyboardJockey launched

21 September 2003: Sigs start auto-updating again. Hooray!
23 September 2003: SimGuy’s roundup on AMD64 brings in big traffic

25 September 2003: 1337 Processor first sold
http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3988

13 October 2003: 50,000th post
14 October 2003: ATI Catalyst thread begins
18 October 2003: 500th member joins
19 October 2003: Borked smilies!!11
20 October 2003: Record members online: 318
31 October 2003: Halloween theme

8 November 2003: ATI Catalyst discussion ends

1 December 2003 (6 months in)
700 members, 71,351 posts

12 December 2003: Snuffy arrives at SM
http://www.short-media.com/forum/sho...hlight=snuffie

27 December 2003: vBulletin 3 upgrade

29 January 2004: SM10 comes back to life thanks to MrBill

7 Feb 2004: 100,000 posts
8 Feb 2004: 1,000 members

24 Feb 2004: Club 64 started

March 2004 (9 months in)
1,149 members, 111,206 posts

8 April 2004: New front page goes live

9 April 2004: Security area created

26 April 2004: #2 for Omega search on Google

14-16 May 2004: SM LAN ‘04

June 2004 (1 year)
1,931 members, 141,178 posts



Well, I always thought the best thing ever for Short-Media was the day Dan called me out of the blue to tell me what was going on with Icrontic. That the administration cared that much about its users to make a trans-atlantic call on his bill to let them know.

Short-Media is unique in the sense that it freely allows submissions from its members. Very few sites allow that. I'm glad I got the chance to submit my articles somewhere.

Short-Media has the lowest flames per capita of any forum on the internet, and that rocks.

-Thrax


There are soo many events for such a great site, such as IC13 in memory of Bart Williams, It was a true honor to be able to host such an important SMx box. I have never seen such a site come together when a member needs it, such as when Heather passed away, SM is such a small site compared to other tech sites, but we are the closest of any site I have been to. If could wrap SM up into one word it would be FAMILY.

-Clutch


I came to Shortmedia for the info, I stayed for the company. I don't often help anybody as there are lots of people with far more expertise than me and they are always willing to help. I post mainly in the pub but have never been criticised for that. I have always felt welcome here. I have browsed quite a few forums but have never seen anything like SM, it's a real community, it's special, it's full of people who I shall probably never meet but who will go out of their way and spend time to help me! I love it to bits. Congrats to the three guys who set this up, congrats to all the members who make it what it is. Thanks for being there. You done good.

-bothered