Happy 1st birthday to I-M.net
Just like the title of this news item says, happy birthday to Invisible Movement! Two days later than it should’ve been, I am sorry, I had lots of troubles at work and at the university and then I was too exhausted to make an update. I still am, even after unhealthy 28 hours of sleep, but, nevermind, here it goes…after this message.
I can’t believe that it’s already been a year since the password-protection was removed from this page and since the first visitors checked out this website. I was surpised with how easily the fans accepted it and now I am as suprised with how the number of visitors is increasing every day, having already passed by the impessive number of 100 000 unique visitors last week. And I was not really advertising this site, or at least not as much as the other webmasters do. Google has it listed 3rd or 4th when you type “John Frusciante” in the search field, other fansites link to me, the links exist in my forum signatures and, well, RHCP BBS kept a sticky for about one month in the John forum and I am thankful for that.
It was not always as bright as it is today, though.
– After an accident I am not willing to talk about in January 2005, I let two of my friends maintain this site for about couple of weeks. A lady called Anne from New York, USA, convinced me to come back and continue maintaining my website so, yes, I should mention her here and say a big thank you, Anne. I will never forget what you’ve done for me.
– In April, and then again in October this year, a regular site visitor thought it was completely OK to take off half of the photos from the site and other texts and put it on his website…and then he asked to be linked. Well, I had to report that to his host and the people whose stuff he took, but it looks like he’ll never come to sense. So, yes, it’s actually flattering to see that he’s using the texts I wrote myself.
But there’ve been wonderful moments as well.
– After the ATP festival, the Vegas, NYC and Atlantic City shows, people were wonderful, they were sending in their stories, reviews, audio, video and photos; making this site a better place to visit and making me, as a person, feel at least a little bit of the atmosphere from the events I was absolutely unable to attend. So, thank you, guys. If I ever wanted to give up on this, I would change my mind for sure.
– Mainly thanks to this website, my friendship with one of the literally nicest and most amazing humans on this continent and on this planet became much, much stronger and that’s one more reason not to stop working on this project. They will know who they are.
– Also, via this website, after the Vegas concert, a completely anonymus person, sent me an email and shared all of their experiences regardging the event, as if they’ve known me all their life. They will also know who they are.
– And, lastly, the board makes me feel very very proud, since for the first 3 months of its existance, there haven’t been any major incidents and since everyone is really nice to the others.
I would like to thank to everyone who contributed to this website (there are waaay to many people, sorry for not mentioning names, it’s better than forgetting someone). A new year has started.
As for updates, check the site for ….
5 new video clips
2 new wallpapers
updates on biography and info section, as well as all subpages in “site” section
BTW, the fanlisting has 112 members, board 217:)
