Please Send Bronze & Pottery

So today is officially the eighth anniversary of indieWIRE (so the traditional gift would be something bronze or pottery if you feel the burning need to send us something.) Some of those earliest editions of indieWIRE are "lost" to all but the elephantine memory of the Wayback Machine, but I remember when Karol Martesko forwarded me Issue #1 and by the time Issue #3 came around, we were helping Eugene and The Rabbi publish them to the Web. Long ago we stopped numbering the issues, but by my rough count today's edition is probably about Issue #2250.

In 1997, on the occassion of indieWIRE's first ... I mean paper ... anniversary Eugene had this pithy Editor's Note:


"July 15, 1996 saw the debut of a media outlet aimed at
changing the way people get their news. It quickly garnered critical and
popular acclaim for its landmark use of the Internet as a new medium for
distributing news and information. That new service, dubbed MSNBC, may have
snagged the mainstream media spotlight from indieWIRE, but it was quite clear
that we not only share a launch date, but some common goals."

So, Happy Birthday, MSNBC! *evil grin*



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Congratulations and Happy Anniversary to indieWIRE. So many of us rely on you to keep us connected now that it is hard (and a bit painful) to remember a time when you weren't there...



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