BlowingWind the man started his site on GeoCities/Yahoo!
The site took its name from his favourite song - Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind.
The description of my page is:
- gay philosophy
- personal experiences
- travels, stories,
- GAY Bulletin Board
Archived on http://www.blowingwind.org/geocities/index.html
Readers start posting in his “Yahoo! Guest Book” and that interactivity changed his website to a Interactive Bulletin Board (BB).
1997 - 2000
In late December 2000, Yahoo! shut down the Guest Book feature.
BW Bulletin Board moved to EzBoard Forum.
Postings quality deteriorated and readers left.
2001 - 2005
In 2005, Lungker approached BlowingWind to revive the Bullettin Board.
OralB and HendryTan was brought in to jump-start the BB.
This is the era where Lungker, OralB and HendryTan posted heavily.
2005
We moved to Forumer phpBB for a short few days.
20 May 2005
We made the final move to IPB BB.
BlowingWind posted his welcome message to the new Forumer.
24 May 2005
Lungker wrote the following guidelines:
Strictly adults > 18yo
No Local Politics, No Religion, No Race
Allow Guest to post
It reflects BlowingWind’s concerns till today.
1 June 2005
BW started the “Places for Massage” Thread.
One of our most popular series, BW Home-based Massage List (HML) has helped many Gay-friendly Masseurs in their business.
11 June 2005
Started our Personal Folder.
It will become our 2nd most popular sub-forum.
7 October 2005
Welcomed GachiMuchi as a moderator.
2006
We had our 2nd anniversary party
Started 'Digital Rest Room' which was moderated by Ikutube.
Started 'Imperial Kitchen' moderated by Asura & Baloo.
Started 'Pets & Plants' by Buaya which was discontinued.
2007
Ikutube became a Full Moderator.
17 May 2007
Reason: For posting "questionable links and videos"
Mods rallied the members and set our future direction:
- Decision : BW to stay NON-Commercial
- Chose our Domain Name : www.blowingwind.org
- Decided to self Host in USA, Need to Pay
- Funding by Google Advertisements + Mod’s own top-up
Moved to our First "Low-Cost" hosting site in USA.
Setup the IRC chat software to link to #blowingwind.
06 March 2008
Started selling banner ads for charity.
Up to Year 2010 - $ 2.3 K proceeds going to charity.
Beneficiaries include AFA, Oogachaga, and Kwang Wai Shiu Hospital.
Read more 2008
Upgraded BlowingWind Software to IPB 3.0.
Going Social with Profile pics, Twitter and Facebook.
2009
Massive increase in readership - our hosting site could not cope and evicted us.
Moved to a high capacity host.
September 2009
- Status Update
- Mobile Skin
- Profile personalization
- BW Real-time Chat
Welcomed Bern on 3 July 12 as Moderator cum technical Admin.
3 July 2012
We celebrated our 500,000th post milestone on 19 March 2013.
The 500,000th post was made by Guest poster going by the name -Whisperer-.
His entry can be seen here - More
19 March 2013
Blowing Wind Forum joined the SG Internet 24-hour online blackout on June 6th, 2013 in protest of MDA's new internet censorship regulation.
Read more here - http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=41374
6 June 2013
Our user base is growing rapidly.
For capacity planning, we made the move to our present hosting site in USA/LA that is 5x more performant.
20 December 2013
We continued our support of Pink Dot by flying their banner and rallying our members for the 4th straight year.
Pink Dot reached a record turnout of 26,000.
28 June 2014
For posterity, the team has been searching for new talent.
On 5th March, we welcomed the addition of two new moderators, Glyph and Amplify, to our small team of volunteers.
5 March 2015
BW reached the milestone of a million post.
The honour of the 1,000,000 record goes to WorldAngel. His post on 8th March 2015, 15:30 on "Alcohol Substitute" crossed the millionth mark.
9 March 2015
We held our 10th anniversary party on 11 July 2015, where many of our members shared their #bw10 experience.
Amplify and Glyph quickly made their presence felt by masterminding BW's 10th Anniversary Party.
The party ended with a blast! - http://www.blowingwind.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=62683
11 July 2015
Unplanned Outages since 2005
#BW10 Sponsors
New Members Per Day
Hours of Downtime in 10 years
The man who started it all
1,000,000th Post Contributor
Part-time volunteer, full-time uncle
BW's bitchiest talented banner artist
