Korgscrew
Group: Super Admins
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Joined: Dec. 1999 |
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Posted: April 10 2005, 19:52 |
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It was covered a while ago, but we're a few years down the line since then, so this will give the opportunity to add more current history!
Olivier started it sometime around 1998 as Tubular Places, which has kind of evolved into the links page here since then. He then added the news, wanting something that people would want to look at regularly, and it became Tubular Web, with various other sections (articles, lyrics and so on) being added in due course. It got the domain tubular.net a little further along the line (it kept the name Tubular Web even after that, though soon everyone was calling it tubular.net anyway, so that name was eventually dropped). The forum was added in late 1999.
I got involved a little later on, after having been a forum member for a while, when I started contributing pages to the discography, at Olivier's request. Once we'd begun working together on those, we ended up talking about all sorts of other ideas, which ended up with me getting more deeply involved. At some point, he asked if I'd like to be an administrator on the forum - I don't really know why!
We've gradually split out the roles between us - if you write us an email, it's more likely to be me who responds, I think a majority of the news is posted by me (not that there's much to post right now! ), and you're more likely to find me tending the forum, but anything concerning the nuts and bolts of the site (and there are a lot of things which do) is Olivier's domain (not least because it's still his webspace it resides in - so do make use of the paypal donate link, buy things via the links to Amazon and the tubular.net store and click the google links to help him fund the site! ).
Now, we're looking towards the future. We have some ideas ourselves, but do let us know what you like, what you don't like, what you'd like to see included, and so on. You can always get in touch with us via contact@tubular.net (or via our individual addresses) to let us know your views. It's sometimes very difficult to judge whether our actions are gaining the favour of our users or not, and it's especially encouraging to hear when we're doing something right (people tend not to bother telling us! ). It's that kind of interaction that'll assure a long future for the site.
Thanks to everyone for using it and making it the place it is!
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Keep up the fantastic work and i am sure these sentiments are echoed by everyone who contributes. Cheers mate...Ratty. 