This weekend I was checking out a local dive shop and stumbled into a conversation about diving in the industry... as the associate and I kept chatting we hit the topic of ScubaBoard and suddenly his eyes opened up like I had mentioned something special; he commented how "no one could not know ScubaBoard"... it was one of the most awesome moments for me.
Heading home I realized that this post and a BIG kudos are 2 weeks over due, so here it is.
July 13th 2000, 10 years and 2 weeks ago, we turned ScubaBoard on and this account was created (at the time I was “Tech Admin”... Back then SB was just a small part of a group of scuba diving sites known as SucbaSource and while we thought a forum would be fun, community was new to the web so we didn’t have any amazing expectations for what we were setting up. Still we put out best foot forward and were soon joined by a group of amazing users who turned into mods & recruiters and a viral buzz throughout many local dive communities with users trickling in. That pace kept increasing much to our amazement and a few years later we were the biggest diving forum out there.
Things changed, as they always do, and us original founders (there were 3 of us: Tom, Cole and myself) parted way with Pete (NetDoc) jumping in to pick up the pieces... From there the roller coaster headed straight up with SB becoming the biggest largest site in SCUBA. Period. That’s even truer these days with huge numbers like 4.8 million posts that prove it.
While my role in the business behind ScubaBoard ended several years ago (Pete brought me back for a few years) it's been amazing to watch from the sidelines as the community grows and grows. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee being able to walk into a random dive shop and have people jump at the mere mention of SB. Over 150,000 people have joined this community in 10 years and who knows how many millions have stumbled on by, read a post, or two or three, and experienced SB. It’s an amazing accomplishment.
I am much more a lurker these days than the active user I was 10 years 2 weeks ago, but being able to log on and see conversations, old names, new names, it’s great. So a very, very big kudos to Pete, the staff, and the mods for making SB into what it is today. The same to the faces from the past, a few of whom are still around, many more of which have wandered off to other parts of life. And of course thank you to each and every person who has, or will, logged on and made this site into what it is, you are the community and you all rock.
To the next 10 years of ScubaBoard!
As a fun throw back check out the attached pics which show the first 5 years of SB websites.
- Ted S (aka Tech Admin for the old timers)
Heading home I realized that this post and a BIG kudos are 2 weeks over due, so here it is.
July 13th 2000, 10 years and 2 weeks ago, we turned ScubaBoard on and this account was created (at the time I was “Tech Admin”... Back then SB was just a small part of a group of scuba diving sites known as SucbaSource and while we thought a forum would be fun, community was new to the web so we didn’t have any amazing expectations for what we were setting up. Still we put out best foot forward and were soon joined by a group of amazing users who turned into mods & recruiters and a viral buzz throughout many local dive communities with users trickling in. That pace kept increasing much to our amazement and a few years later we were the biggest diving forum out there.
Things changed, as they always do, and us original founders (there were 3 of us: Tom, Cole and myself) parted way with Pete (NetDoc) jumping in to pick up the pieces... From there the roller coaster headed straight up with SB becoming the biggest largest site in SCUBA. Period. That’s even truer these days with huge numbers like 4.8 million posts that prove it.
While my role in the business behind ScubaBoard ended several years ago (Pete brought me back for a few years) it's been amazing to watch from the sidelines as the community grows and grows. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee being able to walk into a random dive shop and have people jump at the mere mention of SB. Over 150,000 people have joined this community in 10 years and who knows how many millions have stumbled on by, read a post, or two or three, and experienced SB. It’s an amazing accomplishment.
I am much more a lurker these days than the active user I was 10 years 2 weeks ago, but being able to log on and see conversations, old names, new names, it’s great. So a very, very big kudos to Pete, the staff, and the mods for making SB into what it is today. The same to the faces from the past, a few of whom are still around, many more of which have wandered off to other parts of life. And of course thank you to each and every person who has, or will, logged on and made this site into what it is, you are the community and you all rock.
To the next 10 years of ScubaBoard!
As a fun throw back check out the attached pics which show the first 5 years of SB websites.
- Ted S (aka Tech Admin for the old timers)