I didn’t realize it, but nusuni.com just auto-renewed for another year. Even better, it is now officially 5 years old. So, in case you are curious, here is a quick rundown of what I have done with it during that time:
May 14, 2002 - Nusuni.com is born. I was running a Tripod.com site and wanted a domain name. “Nusuni” was going to originally become a gaming website. I basically put together nintendo and sony and got Nusony, then thought about trademark issues and decided on Nusuni.
Rest of 2002 - Nothing happens. I planned a bunch of games and worked on one called “Zob” which was going to become a nice 2d sprite game, but it never got out of beta stage. I switched from Tripod to another ISP for my web hosting needs.
2003 - PortFinder and IPer are released mid-year. IPer got pretty popular, and got my domain listed in some IT magazines.
2004 - I outgrew my 500 meg/month bandwidth with the old host and got a new one that offered 50 gigs a month.
2005 - Nusuni.com’s e-mail system had a massive spam attack, I got thousands of e-mails in a few days (which was amazing for a site only getting 1-2 visitors/day at the time). Switched to a new host and got a 1 year contract (oh what a mistake). Officially stopped working on IPer and some other programs.
2006 - Switched hosts again, nothing much happened this year. I got into os development and to be honest I am currently thinking about starting an OS-dev blog if I save up some $$ and get some free time (aka: it’s not a priority).
Switched nusuni.com over to a “blog” style site in August. It originally was “Life In a Circuit Board” on Blogspot, but I decided to merge nusuni.com with that and I installed WordPress.
2007 - Traffic explodes and the site became more popular. Currently I am working on a PHP/MySQL framework, DotConf (OS X (maybe Linux too) apache configuration tool), and some other side projects including a kernel called NuSix.
2008 - I become a friggin millionaire, build a pool filled with jello, and live in Aruba!… I wish…
I have learned one important lesson over that time - do not overextend yourself. I used to do it a lot and I broke promises a lot (promising programs and games and this and that).
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