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20 Years with WebmasterWorld

20 years with WebmasterWorld and thoughts about search industry

         

Ove

9:31 am on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I've been thinking a bit about what WebmasterWorld has done for me and the seo industry.
How many web pages are you still looking at after 20 years and still learning things, probably not that many.

I have made friends around the world with whom I have good contact.
It's been great to be able to create a branch from the beginning and still be part of it.

I remember the first conference in London, the first time you met everyone you had contact with,
it was strange to meet everyone you looked up to, you were nervous about a lot of things especially the language it is harder to talk to a man in reality in a foreign language other than writing. A fun memory was when I and a friend were going to eat at the hotel, I looked at the menu and saw it was lamb I didn't know what it meant so I asked what lamb means, then she answered Bللللل then my friend Brendon said he is from Sweden and not stupid

Everyone had great respect for each other with the language which I think was very much appreciated.
A lot of what I learned in seo is from WebmasterWorld and all the threads there as well as all the tests and nights you sat up waiting for googledance.

Brett and all moderators have done a fantastic job of having a functioning forum,
new forums came up but they usually disappeared quickly. After 20 years as a member of WebmasterWorld I am as impressed as before.

I sat and searched old threads and read a lot from us in Europe, there were many ways to drive traffic then,
there was different knowledge on the different search engines in the European countries which made us experts in the different areas.

Big thanks to all of you during this trip which has been great fun in every way.

/ Ove

engine

10:26 am on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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In exactly four weeks from today it'll be 20 years for me.
My first dabble on the Web 1.0 was 1994, and by 1995 i was building web pages. Prior to that I was learning about the Net and involved with old bbs in 1984/5.

I was very happy to make WebmasterWorld a home.

brotherhood of LAN

4:02 pm on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I'm almost double the age I was when I signed up. Think myself and lazerzubb were some of the youngest people about here earlyish doors. The striking things from starting out here were the advanced CSS wisdom of papabaer and the trailblazing SEO stuff being discussed.

Hopefully the SE space will change over the next few years with some more diversity. There's some Euro-local ones that are very popular, like seznam. Here's to another 20 years of inspiration.

brotherhood of LAN

7:51 pm on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Remember a thread where we called out age [webmasterworld.com...]

lucy24

8:13 pm on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Remember a thread
Near the top of the list:
tedster 55
:: wanders off sobbing brokenly ::

buckworks

8:40 pm on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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>> :: wanders off sobbing brokenly ::

Me too.

tangor

9:15 pm on Apr 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Been here long enough to see many of the early WW Giants pass on. Each has been a terrific loss ... yet at the same time, the memories of camaraderie and sharing of knowledge will live long after.

These days, if anyone sticks around for 365 DAYS is to be treasured as so many of the "kids" out there have attention spans of gnats and only want an answer for their immediate problem and don't want to be educated on how things are done.

Essex_boy

2:29 am on May 25, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Been here about 18 years, seen people that really knew what they were doing, Admins now that really dont know their butt from their elbow.