It was one year ago today, May 27, 2007, when I opened the doors to lolcode.com. It's been a pretty amazing year since then. LOLCODE has evolved from a joke post on my blog just two days before to what's becoming a fairly standard “Hello World” for compiler writers, virtual machine creators, and API publishers.
It's been an amazing trip, and I just wanted to thank all of you for stopping by. There are a lot more self-indulgent thoughts on my personal blog, but I won't trouble you here with them.
I've written a lot about ROFLCon here recently. The reason why is because it's simply the biggest thing to have happen to me on the back of LOLCODE. I've spoken a lot about the panel (“LOLCats: I can has case study?”) I was on, and now there's documentary evidence. (Nearly) the whole panel that I spoke on at ROFLCon is now available for high-quality download at archive.org. You can now see and hear what all the fuss was about: I Can Has Cheezburger, LOLSecretz, LOLTrek, LOLCat Bible, and I shared the stage with Alexis Ohanian, our moderator, for about an hour, with lots of LOLs. Below, an embed from the video crew, Harvard multimedia comedy troupe, Respectably French:
(Yes, that's TRON Guy's helmet in the bottom corner of the frame. He was amazing.) The video is about an hour long, so I know I would want to download it from archive.org instead.