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November 10, 2002 at 5:33 am #7763
Jeff Hester
KeymasterI’ve had many people ask me, “How did you come up with the name BigBlueBall?” Here’s the background.
Several years ago, a friend and co-worker of mine wanted to setup a web site primarily for use to exercise our web development skills. We sat down with a sheet of paper and brainstormed a list of about 50 domain names. I can’t remember the other names, but we BigBlueBall was one of them. It made me think of how Earth looks from space; like a big, blue ball. Fits well with the global nature of the Internet, don’t you think?
Well we started going through that list of domain names and checking on their availability. One by one we checked them out, and one by one we found that they were already registered! Eventually the process of elimination left us with two or three to choose from, and BigBlueBall was the obvious choice.
May 30, 2003 at 5:59 am #66306Jeff Hester
Keymastero but the earth is green and white too lol
May 30, 2003 at 10:00 am #66314OctoberTheHottie
Memberwell, i think it is fitting……… so you have been to outer space, cool, lol!
May 30, 2003 at 4:03 pm #66308Jeff Hester
KeymasterIf you’d like to see what the site used to look like way back in the early days, check out the
It’s kinda fun to see the evolution of the site.
May 30, 2003 at 6:41 pm #66312Faizan
MemberGosh, the old one’s were ugly, no offence…sorry!
BigBlueBall has improved a lot, and half of the credit goes to SnitzForums2000 for the forum bit, the other site has improved really well, and all the credits obviously goes yo JEFF!!
It was funny to see the old BBB, and btw the logo has improved a lot. The new one is really good! 😉May 30, 2003 at 6:49 pm #66317shifter
ParticipantQuote:quote:Originally posted by SoccerSwty99o but the earth is green and white too lol
Ok, you’re in charge of registering the domain name – http://www.bigbluegreenandwhiteball.com :p
May 31, 2003 at 8:33 pm #66310Anna
ParticipantIs it wrong that I actually REMEMBER all the looks of BigBlueBall? 😉
June 4, 2003 at 7:16 pm #66305Jeff Hester
Keymasterbbb has changed so many more links so much more *pizaz* lol the website now kix A**
June 9, 2003 at 7:57 pm #66319LittleBuddy99
MemberOMG BBB is alot better
y is it called the waybackmachine thats so boring and to the point. LoL
June 24, 2003 at 2:00 pm #66318MarsBarr
MemberQuote:quote:Originally posted by LittleBuddy99y is it called the waybackmachine
i think that’s a search site like google, only it shows sites from “way back”. lol:cool:
June 24, 2003 at 2:55 pm #66313Brian
MemberOh my.. I know why BigBlueBall.com seemed familiar. I remember surfing on BigBlueBall in 2001 and 2002 before this change. It makes it more interesting and fun to see how websites like this change over the years. 🙂
June 24, 2003 at 10:17 pm #66315darkjedi
MemberThats cool wondered how the site got named, wow it sure looks different, but thats all things are online they grow and change
July 10, 2003 at 3:26 pm #66320spongebobrulezaj
MemberThats really cool and creative;)
August 3, 2003 at 6:28 pm #66321righthandsayshi
MemberWow, BBB site sure has changed. I like this loo, nice and sleek looking. Might just be what I think of it. And the name is just a good name, something about it BigBlueBall just seems like the right choice, you chose wisly with the name.
August 15, 2003 at 7:57 pm #66322angee1
Participanthehe… When I clicked on the link and came here I busted out laughing. Reminded me of something a high school boyfriend had said to me. “Come on! You don’t want me to get big blue b…” Well you get the picture.
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