Bumper Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Oct 23, 2006 is when it all began. This great website was born that day. From a humble beginning on a drupal website with hardly 50 members, our user base has grown by 5000% today, generating 6.5 million hits a month, scaling up Alexa's webcharts by approx 400% every month. We proudly celebrate today as our first anniversary. You guys played a big part in making this happen. Special thanks from the ICF mod team and congratulations everyone! Our journey in the last year, has been a fantastic experiene. Enroute, we've witnessed the Drupal, the drama queens,the PhBB, a Turkish hacker, spammers and some wondeful posters. Fortunately we dont have to wonder where we came from, web archives has captured our journey in pictures: ICF in Dec, 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20061230204430/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ Jan 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070129084452/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ Feb 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070222111123/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ Mar 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070329045207/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ May 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070329045207/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ Jul 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070703224748/http://www.indiancricketfans.com/ For other dates: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.indiancricketfans.com Link to comment
Ram Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Congratulations guys ! This place rocks ! Link to comment
The Outsider Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 What a fascinating journey this has been!! Born out of the frustration of being unable to express ourselves on the web amongst online friends and evolved into a huge website with a myriad of posters, views, and passions. It's been tough but it's been worth it. This has become a milling and growing hub of people feeding into the growth from a few rag tag emails exchanged between a handful of people in the first week of October. A true testament to the fact that quality people just need a platform to grow. We have a unique stats database, enthusiastic writers and posters penning their thoughts and emotions, custom made videos, and a terrific betting module. There are many more things in the pipeline like our own Superselector and a separate Blogs section. Here is hoping we stay together for many more years to come, enjoy Indian cricket, India, political, scientific, cultural discussions and much more with freedom. Link to comment
Cricketics Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Maiden web Century..Nice Landmark for Icf congratz folkz.. Link to comment
Don Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 A journey indeed! Celebration of Freedom! Link to comment
Guest Hiten. Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 I wish this journey never stops. Congrats everyone and ICF staff. well done!!:two_thumbs_up: Link to comment
sandtest Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Wishing: OM Hacker free cyberlife that could morph and survive into any kind of shape the bites may take as the tech keeps moving on and on till eternity. May you provide all leads to hangers on and trolls and deliberate intelligence observers worldwide to the strong defence and love of India and may you for ever convert the India hating, India baiting Devil-worshippers into good guys and into staunch India lovers. May you provide intelligent debates and spread the outcoming wisdome to all. In one sentence, may you provide vision to the blind, lead us from darkness to light, from falsity to the truth, from mortality to immortality. May you for ever remain the Tendulkar, the Ritwick of this Yajna that we intend to perform for the well being, everlasting future of Cricket in Bharat. Thathastu. Ome Shanti, shantih, shantihee. PS: May you control us whenever we transgress the boundaries that are set by you. :D May you protect us from getting kicked out from here for our wild temper. :D May you subtitute and include any thing that I failed stating in my best wishes to you. Jai Hind. Link to comment
PaiN_KiLLeR Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Outstanding performance by ICF in its debut season! I hope this site stays like this forever:yay: Link to comment
theguyinallblue Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 ohh...its so soon... it feels like only yesterday..that i received a mail from an angel that a new house has been built over internet where there will be love..freedom and a sense of belonging... i think more than the forum..its the people...which keep us all united... people from different parts of INDIA..Indians from different parts of the world... they are all here..sharing their thoughts...their emotions..their frustrations....for not only things relatd to cricket..but politics...religion...sex..cars...girls...boys...COOKING...FOOD..etc... ohh...how much i love this place.... Thankyou Anu_D..:D Link to comment
DesiChap Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 :yay::two_thumbs_up::hatsoff::beer-bottle::isalute::bhangra: Link to comment
fineleg Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Great job. Congratulations. Link to comment
Dirty_South Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Excellent job everybody !!! Congrats !!! Cheers !!! :beer-bottle: Link to comment
King Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Time flies all right but it feels I've known most of the posters for a long time. Good going folks and we are only warming up :birthday: Link to comment
MundaPakistani Posted October 23, 2007 Share Posted October 23, 2007 Good job folks- things are progressing well. Link to comment
Aditi Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 Can't believe it's already been a year!! Seems like yesterday when I got an email asking to join this place! I LOVE it here!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D Link to comment
coffee_rules Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 It's been only a few months for me here, as I had to endure the WC in that board. I am glad and thankful for Dhondy to send that invite. Congratulations folks!!! Here's some from the archives: http://www.indiancricketfans.com/search.php?searchid=16513&pp=25&page=2 Link to comment
Chaos Posted October 24, 2007 Share Posted October 24, 2007 happy birthday ICF, great going! Link to comment
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