Global Nerdy is 20 years old today!

The stats Since that I posted that first article on August 16, 2006 to Global Nerdy, it’s been… 20 years 2 blogging platforms (Blogware, then WordPress) 11 million pageviews Almost 5,000 articles (this one will be number 4,989) 2 cities/countries: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2006 – 2014 Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. 2014 – present …and of course, one helluva blogging adventure! The name I didn’t come up with the name; at least not directly. It was generated by a program I wrote, The Duke of URL, which demonstrated the “namespinner” API made by Tucows, where I was working as their developer advocate. You enter some keywords into the app, and it presented you with a list of suitable and available domain names. One of the available domain names it presented was globalnerdy.com. The name was a little ridiculous; it sounded like the sort of thing made by whoever comes up with names for Japanese role-playing videogames. But it was kind of catchy and I decided to go with it. The eras To close (I’d…