High Five to AllThingsD.com — Happy Birthday to Us
Five years ago, AllThingsD.com was launched with just a few staffers, a few stories and a whole lot of hope. Also, as it turned out, with a panoply of LOLcat photos.
The site had soft-launched a little earlier, but — officially — we opened our doors in the late evening of April 26, 2007. Walt Mossberg wrote about a Kodak printer; John Paczkowski wrote about, wait for it, Apple; and I opined on how then-Yahoo-CEO Terry Semel might save the troubled company.
The more things change …
Actually, despite the fact that we have grown hugely in both traffic and staff, and have logged almost 26,000 posts, little has changed in how ATD looks at its role in covering tech, using stringent standards of fairness, accuracy, ethics and reporting.
As I wrote back then: “That is what we will be trying to do most of the time here, attempting to figure out what is happening in the digital space and explaining it in a way that is clear and cogent.”
And, of course, have some fun doing it.
Thus, mission accomplished, and mission never accomplished, too.
Walt and I want to thank everyone, from our outstanding staff to our Dow Jones colleagues to the many companies we cover to — most of all — our readers.
There is a lot more to come going forward, and we hope to never disappoint and always delight.
And, as I also wrote back then at the dawn of AllThingsD:
“But enough looking back: On to the next thing.”
And to my amazing partner, Walt, you knew I could not resist:
