====== it was one month ago today... ======

One month ago, on Friday, the 25th of May, [[http://lindsay.at/blog/archive/2007/05/25/lolcode.html|I had a little idea]] that I thought would amuse my friend Anne. Her enthusiasm got me thinking, so I posted it to my blog, and devised a plan to use the coming three-day weekend to immerse myself in developing the bare bones of a website that other people might see. 

By Sunday, I flicked the switch and let some folks from [[http://twitter.com/atl|Twitter]] and [[http://forum.textdrive.com/|my hosting provider]] see it. Their enthusiasm and efforts led it to the top of Reddit by Monday, and to the front page of Digg the next day. I didn't sleep much that week, both from the excitement and stress of keeping a //real// website and community going. 

Thanks to all of you who have visited the site, emailed, blogged, capped a book cover, or posted to a bboard. Thanks especially to those of you who have bought a t-shirt. And I really treasure those of you that've stuck around to help make LOLCODE a real programming language. You folks really get it. LOL.