# About this Site

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571 "2020-04-25T07:34:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571/1 "2020-04-25T07:34:25Z")

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The site with its current focus on web-related topics started in 1999. That's a really long time ago. The following timeline chronicles the early days of the site...all the way to today:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.kirupa.com/about/](https://www.kirupa.com/about/)

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**Author:** ![prg9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571/2 "2020-04-25T16:15:52Z")

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Why **two** threads, are you spamming your own forum? 😆

> [@About this Site](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642176):
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> This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://www.kirupa.com/about/index.htm](https://www.kirupa.com/about/index.htm)

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571/3 "2020-04-25T16:58:08Z")

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It is a URL issue where the other one has /index.htm and this one doesn’t 😯

Need to add a check to avoid this!

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**Author:** ![prg9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@prg9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prg9)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-this-site/642571/4 "2020-04-25T20:35:10Z")

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Yeah saw that, I was just kidding with ya K-man. 😉