I'd like to take a minute and reflect on what has happened since I woke up in the middle of the night last November with the thought "I Remember JFK! Now THAT would be a cool name for a Boomer nostalgia site!" To my delight and surprise, the domain name was available.
I just received my Google ranking, and it's a pretty good one. That was my initial goal when I put this site together. I'm now getting good, steady traffic from the king of search engines.
What I never envisioned was the response I've received from Boomers. I've always had a slightly better-than-average memory. The cumulative effect over the years is that my wrinkled bald head is filled with all sorts of trivial recollections that have proven to have an emotional impact on many who had long since forgotten similar events from their own childhoods.
And the fact that I have been the extremely fortunate recipient of traffic blasts from Pirillo's Picks, CBS News, KSDK TV in St. Louis (GO CARDS! Tony! Can't you afford a cab??), and the lovely Kim Komando. That last one alone was worth a cool 18,000 visits on March 20. Glad I switched to a dedicated server last year!
It's given me a pleasure that I have never attained with any site I conceived of or hosted in my ten years in the business. I can't wait to get home from work each day and write a new I Remember JFK reminiscence! And the slew of comments from you wonderful fellow Boomers shows that you're enjoying this ride, too.
I figure I've tapped perhaps 1% of my childhood memories. So keep tuning in every day, and sign up for the emailed summary of each day's article, if you haven't already!
And thank you so much, all of you visitors who make this so rewarding.
Comments (2)
I also love this site and look forward to reading it daily
Posted by Phyllis Cate | March 23, 2007 8:26 PM
Posted on March 23, 2007 20:26
I just found your site last year Ron, so I have been catching up on all your older posts! I got a long way to go! Kudos to you sir for such a wonderful site! I am a lot like you when it comes to revisting our past. My better half often says to me to move forward and not look back so much. I disagree with her on that! I look back on my past being a late boomer with fond recolections! A simpler time for me! Being a child and living life in a evolving culture! I have to hand it to you as you have really put a lot of work and time into your posts/website! Since we were born in 59, we do share a lot of neat memories and that is why I enjoy the site! And I love reading all the posts from other boomers! Their are a lot of us from our generation and older who are out here! I hope they find this site and read all the great memories! It's a different world today, but they said that in every generation I suppose. It's funny how kids today have never seen a dial phone or experienced the simple pleasures in life that we did! Perhaps they do now, but it is definately different! I will be hitting the big 50 next month. Not looking forward to that, but can't escape it! At least I can come to this site and relive a little of the past! Keep up the great job and maybe a suggestion of a possible data base of regular boomers who frequent this site or a forum within to chat with fellow boomers? A plus for your efforts Ron! Fellow Boomer Rivers End of Virginia
Posted by Rivers End | June 9, 2009 8:12 PM
Posted on June 9, 2009 20:12