Hard to imagine, but 4GuysFromRolla.com turned nine years old this month. The first article I authored was titled, Using ActiveX Controls on Your Web Page and looked at creating an ActiveX using Visual Basic 5.0 and deploying it on a web page via the <object> HTML element. It was published on September 16th, 1998. To put it another way, I've been writing articles and FAQs and tutorials on Microsoft web technologies on, at minimum, a weekly basis, for nearly one-third of my entire life. Scary.
The site was originally started with three college buddies who covered non-web development topics, but by 2000 they had all moved on to other projects. 4Guys was sold to Internet.com (now JupiterMedia) back at the height of the dot com bubble, but I have remained the main contributor and editor for the site. Back in August of 2001 I wrote a short piece on the history of the site, which is still pertinent today seeing as not much has changed about the site since then. I keep pumping out articles every week, just like I did back in 2001.
I wonder if I'll still be doing this when 4Guys turns 10, or 15, or 25. Who knows. If you would have asked me in 1998 if I thought I'd still be writing web technology articles nine years later I would have thought the idea highly unlikely, perhaps a bit absurd. But the younger you are, the harder it is to have an understanding or appreciation of the scale of time.
In any event, it's been a great nine years and I look forward to the next nine. I hope you have found and continue to find the articles on 4Guys to be instrutive, useful, interesting, timely, and helpful.
Happy Programming!