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Is there an official Questionland birthday?

Is there a recognized date of inception when the idea was sketched out on a napkin (somewhat obligatory Space Needle reference), a date of opening online, maybe a fateful meeting of Gnome and Elf date?

Is there someone that has kept a record of the history (even pre-history) of how the whole thing came to be?

I think having a recognized Qland anniversary, birthday or celebration day might be in order. Each year the basic history could be remembered, updated, and basic statistics reviewed about participants, questions, answers, etc.

What if on a particular day each year banners, posters, sidewalk caulk appeared everywhere with a cryptic "?land" or "Qland" that got people wondering and then aware of the community here.

Years down the line this might just be a good thing to have established now. People will come and go, the community will continue.

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O My Captain is correct that he joined Questionland shortly after it was released in April of 2009.

In January of 2009, 3 guys from a fledgling Seattle based technology company approached Tim Keck of The Stranger to see if he wanted to use their technology on his website. Well, he didn't really like what they were selling but he really did like the 3 guys and they made him really delicious coffee so he decided to hang out with them for a few hours and see if they could come up with something that he did like. That day, Questionland was born as the place Seattlite's would go to ask all their difficult questions like "Where can I find a good plumber?" or "Who's got a good selection of women's boots?" or "Where can I get a good Falafel in this town?".

While the 3 technology guys were building Questionland, Tim and his colleague Anthony set to working on Questionland's style and character which they described as a "Broken Down Theme Park". Enter the Mushroom and Gnome. Discovered from the last page of Google images, cleaned up, and given center stage of Questionland.com.

On April 1st, 2009, Questionland.theStranger.com was born and took off wildly. About a year later, Questionland took on a new home at Questionland.com and a new "woodsy" design. Then, in October of 2011, Questionland decided to take itself a little more seriously, moved the Mushroom and Gnome from the front office to the back and redesigned with a cleaner, more polished look and feel. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Classic date!

So, April 1st is really the official birthday of Questionland.

I hope you guys really do spend some time reminiscing and recording some of the better stories and conversations about the inception process in an "official book of Qland".

So what should happen to recognize the three year birthday of Questionland this year? Thoughts? Ideas? from anyone? Maybe this deserves a new question? Should I post it?

Russ Campbell, NWEBS commented 3 months ago | Report

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You definitely get the 'Shroom for a succinct peek into the tale.
I wonder if we will ever hear more. I think Tim K would have an interesting perspective to relate. A good journalist should do a set of interviews on these events to get the story down.

I had an early morning musing thought on someone raising a big white flag from the top of the Space Needle with a single large question mark on it - that might get some attention. Maybe too large an avalanche, good movements grow under their own steam.

Russ Campbell, NWEBS commented 3 months ago | Report

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Ha! Great musings Russ. Feel free to post a question about our 3-year anniversary. It'll be fun to see what people come up with.

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Russ, those are some brilliant ideas...good gorilla marketing ideas, and not a bad question. I can tell you that I found Questionland within the week that it was "released into the wild" back in late April of 2009, I believe. At least, I've only seen a handful of "joined dates" that are earlier than mine. I don't know if that's any help or not.

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I waited for Marty's answer but I did note the April 19,"2009" join date on your profile page.

There was a time when you could look at the profiles in order of joining following a "latest" or "oldest" beginning choice, but that went away with the latest redesign. It was handy when you wanted to see what folks had just signed up and you could then look at the latest one and see their 'number'. It was interesting to watch the numbers grow. Now you have to wait for a spammer to join and post an ad and then you can catch the latest number in the URL. You are 1264, Marty is 636, Charles B is 642. Those numbers are probably a function of the mods being very busy behind the scenes before deciding and following through with having an official onscreen presence. I am way down the line at 8962.

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April 2 here. #747

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I'm not sure what the number in the URL signifies. Is that the number of entry? Or some other indication of when you joined? It's invisible to me. I'm just happy Qland is still thriving "in the wild". (Plus, I miss the gnome & mushroom theme. Sigh...)

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I think it is actually the order of registration of a user name on the site. That, of course, doesn't exactly follow for Marty and Charles B as they are listed as members since November 26, 2008 and have the associated numbers mentioned above. They are merely telling the truth of their involvement as creators/mods and can post those dates in their profiles, but have joining numbers associated to when their profiles were created. Also we don't know what number the system started on to begin with.

There was nothing in the mention of any of those facts to discount that you (and others, Fnarf et al) have certainly been around since the very early creation date of 4/1/2009.

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