Card Chronicle turns 20 years old
Whether you were here from the beginning or just started reading a couple of weeks ago, you are the fuel that runs Card Chronicle, you are the reason this site has been updated on a consistent basis for the last 7,400(ish) days, and this place is as much yours as it is mine.
Key points
- At that time in 2006, I was a 22-year-old college student with little thought of or aspiration to spin this off into a full-time gig (or gigs).
- Twenty years changes everyone, and because of that, the voice and the direction of this site is different than it was on this same day in 2006.
- Thank you all for making these last 20 years possible, and here’s to all that the future will bring us.
My intent with Card Chronicle was to create a place where that shared experience could manifest itself on the internet and reach as wide and diverse an audience as possible.
Additional details
- It was just something that I really, really liked doing, and the realization that at least three or four people who I didn’t share a last name with seemed to enjoy it as well was more than enough sustenance to keep me going.
- Personally, I’ve gone from college kid who drank too much and studied too little, to post-graduate 20 something trying to figure out a plan of attack, to law school student, to law school dropout, to married father of two who gets to write and talk about sports for a living.
- People get caught up in the emotion of wanting to feel like they’re contributing to the cause of something that excites them and excites other people, so they lock down a URL and start typing.
- I hope that this place has made being a U of L fan and following Louisville sports at least a bit more enjoyable for a chunk of the Cardinal fan base, because I know it’s done that for me.
- Once the excitement dies down, or once it becomes apparent that it’ll take more than five or six weeks to start pulling in 2 million page views a month, usually the site ceases to exist.
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