Happy Birthday SalonGeek.com! Today is the 'official' 7th birthday of the worlds largest online community of salon professionals.
I say official because that was the date the site became a community.
SalonGeek.com originally started out on August 6th, 2002 as samuelsweet.com which in itself was really an outlet for my programming hobby and a repository for my articles I had written. Within a short few months, I launched the message forums primarily as a way to be able to discuss many of the emails I received from the site 'in public'. That way I could refer people to threads instead of copy+paste the same replies about lift prevention over and over and over again. Thus on January 9th, 2003 samuelsweet.com opened the forums and people started to register.
It sure as busy back in the day
Day 1 there was one sign up.
Day 2, there were 3
Day 3 we exploded in memberships. Including Mrs Geek (she slacked) Fiona (NaturalNails)!
Memberlist in order of sign-ups
I remember the days watching the "Who's online" and getting all excited when we saw someone pop on! Even more if 2 people were on at the same time!
Within a year, the site had become its own entity through activity in the forums. The time came to ditch my name so the site became thenailgeek.com.
For the 1 year anniversary, I changed software and servers to accommodate the growing stream (read: river) of users.
Over the years, we grew and evolved. In 2006, we opened the door to Hair and Skin Geeks and re-branded as SalonGeek.com and haven't really changed too much since then.
We have gone through:
The team has been working behind the scenes on the next evolution of SalonGeek.com one which will better serve the professional community in a number of ways. I have been working for some time on this next step and I expect that we should be able to reveal within the next month or so.
Through ups and downs, SalonGeek.com has always been one of my biggest sources of pride. To me, this site represents all that is wonderful in our industry: Creativity, community, sharing, thirst for knowledge and development, and finally: passion. I for one am very proud that is what you have made it.
Happy Birthday SalonGeek.com.
I say official because that was the date the site became a community.
SalonGeek.com originally started out on August 6th, 2002 as samuelsweet.com which in itself was really an outlet for my programming hobby and a repository for my articles I had written. Within a short few months, I launched the message forums primarily as a way to be able to discuss many of the emails I received from the site 'in public'. That way I could refer people to threads instead of copy+paste the same replies about lift prevention over and over and over again. Thus on January 9th, 2003 samuelsweet.com opened the forums and people started to register.
It sure as busy back in the day
Day 1 there was one sign up.
Day 2, there were 3
Day 3 we exploded in memberships. Including Mrs Geek (she slacked) Fiona (NaturalNails)!
Memberlist in order of sign-ups
I remember the days watching the "Who's online" and getting all excited when we saw someone pop on! Even more if 2 people were on at the same time!
Within a year, the site had become its own entity through activity in the forums. The time came to ditch my name so the site became thenailgeek.com.
Over the years, we grew and evolved. In 2006, we opened the door to Hair and Skin Geeks and re-branded as SalonGeek.com and haven't really changed too much since then.
We have gone through:
- Quizes
- GeekBay (thank god that's gone)
- 150 differen't chat rooms
- 4 Servers
- 3 forum systems
- 6 designers
- 281 bans (virtually all spammers)
- a lot of laughs
The team has been working behind the scenes on the next evolution of SalonGeek.com one which will better serve the professional community in a number of ways. I have been working for some time on this next step and I expect that we should be able to reveal within the next month or so.
Through ups and downs, SalonGeek.com has always been one of my biggest sources of pride. To me, this site represents all that is wonderful in our industry: Creativity, community, sharing, thirst for knowledge and development, and finally: passion. I for one am very proud that is what you have made it.
Happy Birthday SalonGeek.com.
