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- Sep 21, 2003
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- Portland, Oregon
- Car(s)
- 2008 Dodge Viper, 2006 MB CLS55 AMG
Wow time flies. In late October 2003, I launched Gear.Viper007Bond.com in order to share Top Gear and Fifth Gear rips that Vuk sent me. We had met on the Fast-Autos.net forums.
For those that weren't there, this is the horrible looking site that existed back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20031126025308/http://gear.viper007bond.com/
Then it got completely redesigned by Chris (who's still in our IRC channel all these years later) and it looked like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20040407064644/http://gear.viper007bond.com/
The first post on that site still exists! http://www.finalgear.com/news/2004/03/08/welcome-back/
Eventually I outgrew my personal site's hosting and we had to move to our own domain name. But what domain should we use? That spawned these threads over on another forum I belonged to. Read them for a trip down memory lane:
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=8955
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=9007
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=9140
It took awhile but the site eventually launched! http://www.finalgear.com/news/2005/03/
Now get off my lawn.
For those that weren't there, this is the horrible looking site that existed back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20031126025308/http://gear.viper007bond.com/
Then it got completely redesigned by Chris (who's still in our IRC channel all these years later) and it looked like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20040407064644/http://gear.viper007bond.com/
The first post on that site still exists! http://www.finalgear.com/news/2004/03/08/welcome-back/
Eventually I outgrew my personal site's hosting and we had to move to our own domain name. But what domain should we use? That spawned these threads over on another forum I belonged to. Read them for a trip down memory lane:
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=8955
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=9007
http://forums.dieselstation.com/index.php?showtopic=9140
It took awhile but the site eventually launched! http://www.finalgear.com/news/2005/03/
Now get off my lawn.