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Explore
JQuery
was started by
me in
November
of 2006,
This was in the
start
of the Web2.0
boom. funded by doing
annoying contract web projects
for big companies, trying to
make my own grand entrance onto
the Web2.0
landscape. What
I was
originally trying to do doesn't
matter so much now. But while
doing it, I created
Explore
JQuery,
more or less on a whim, and
thought — Hmmm... that's
interesting.
Explore
JQuery
took off, in a small way, and
eventually a bigger way, over a
couple years.
I raised a little money
(but stayed small). And then the
bust happened, and
I ran
out of money, and our fun little
journey got less fun.
I
narrowly survived, not all in
one piece, but kept the service
going the whole time (most days)
and started building it back up.
Things were going well again
in 2007.
I had hundreds of users, though
still just a few people. And
then something no one expected
happened, My
Blog become very famous among
Bloggers and readers.
Now I am a small (but
slightly bigger than before)
team
focusing on helping people have
their own voice on the web and
organizing the world's
information from the personal
perspective. Which has pretty
much always been our whole deal. |