| DavidClark wrote: |
Can't really compare this site with the ROV group on fB... 
This is here is more "serious" - that is not meant to sound pretensious; where as the one on fB is too much of the mud.slingin' on the village square type of vibe. Dig?  |
David
We've had our fair share of 'mud.slingin' on here over the years
Food for thought though.....
ROVworld.com was first online in 2000. The first static pages were uploaded when were based in Ao-Nang, Thailand. Yep! The site is 14 years old
We ran with static pages and a separate discussion forum for the first 3 years.
In 2003 ROVworld started using a CMS (Content Management System)
FB was launched in Feb 2004 when ROVworld was 4 years old.
The language of this site is English. No doubt about that.
FB owners could shut down the FB ROV group right off the bat and make it disappear. Sadly the administrator could do nothing about it as they do n ot own the FB ROV group (FB Inc. does) Not anything I would wish on the group administrator, but it is an inherent weakness of using a public site funded by a large corporation.
Needless to say, 14 years down the line the long term survival of ROVworld.com has been secured and life will go on as usual, no matter what happens to Facebook
I wonder if I'll be posting on here at the time of ROVworld's 20th birthday?
