One month ago, on Friday, the 25th of May, 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 Twitter and 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.