You guys are doing an excellent job, you saved a lot of people time & money by giving them an avenue for which they can learn and research about the DR. Who knows you guys probably saved a couple of lives in the process.Anna Coniglio said:I could be wrong Keith but I think it was 97? Remember the old format with everyone on one thread? What a mess, but yet some of us (like me) were afraid of changing it. And the days where IP addresses was no big deal because we could see them all.
Was there such a thing as closing a thread back then?
Robert and Dolores did all the work.
Now let me think of the moderators by order.
The very first mods in the debate forum were Hillbilly and Pib
General Stuff...Criss Colon and we said ..what the H?
Mars/venus... me, they thought I knew something about sex or something.
Airline forum. Carlos better known by comidian1 or something like that. Glad you changed it to Carlos.
Then believe it or not people were taking their arguments to the clown bin so CC got that one as well.
Mr & Mrs Timex got the living forum
Sankie 101 forum was created for those that are tired of hearing the same old, same old. Me again
Environment forum went to KeithR
Spanish 101 came to me when I was taking some Spanish. We're kind of slow in summer but wait till fall we'll all be proficient in Spanish.
Did I miss anyone? I hope not
Ricardo900 said:You guys are doing an excellent job, you saved a lot of people time & money by giving them an avenue for which they can learn and research about the DR. Who knows you guys probably saved a couple of lives in the process.
Keep up the good work!!
Ricardo
Keith R said:DR1 is the internet successor to the former English-language weekly newspaper, the Santo Domingo News. It was started by Dolores and Rob. Can't remember the year -- 97? 98?
Dolores said:. It was based on the weekly news digest we produced for The Santo Domingo News, that had been in print for over 25 years started by my father.
Chris_NJ said:While we are on history of DR - where you and your father born in the DR or was he from another country and came to DR and founded the English speaking newspaper?
Anna Coniglio said:I could be wrong Keith but I think it was 97? Remember the old format with everyone on one thread? What a mess, but yet some of us (like me) were afraid of changing it. And the days where IP addresses was no big deal because we could see them all.
Was there such a thing as closing a thread back then?
Robert and Dolores did all the work.
Now let me think of the moderators by order.
The very first mods in the debate forum were Hillbilly and Pib
General Stuff...Criss Colon and we said ..what the H?
Mars/venus... me, they thought I knew something about sex or something.
Airline forum. Carlos better known by comidian1 or something like that. Glad you changed it to Carlos.
Then believe it or not people were taking their arguments to the clown bin so CC got that one as well.
Mr & Mrs Timex got the living forum
Sankie 101 forum was created for those that are tired of hearing the same old, same old. Me again
Environment forum went to KeithR
Spanish 101 came to me when I was taking some Spanish. We're kind of slow in summer but wait till fall we'll all be proficient in Spanish.
Weather and Beyond..Chris (Christa)
Did I miss anyone? I hope not
Dolores said:Actually DR1 was first registered as an Internet site in January 1996. I recall it took about two or three months to start its regular updates. It was based on the weekly news digest we produced for The Santo Domingo News, that had been in print for over 25 years started by my father. We became the first Dominican newspaper to go online, but from the start we focused on the service as a totally different information product, thus we called ourselves dr1 and not sdnews. The first webmaster was Joe Spadaro, who was webmaster for the New York Metropolitan Library.
Robert found dr1 online and asked me for my vision. I guess we both shared the same vision, as we do today. It has been a case of synergy. I believe he was in London at the time and looking to return to the Americas. He joined the news organization in 1997, in charge of developing dr1.com
He added the forum in 1997 to handle all the questions we were getting. I started answering questions back then, but soon we were a community. In September 1997 we decided to close the newspaper and dedicate our efforts to dr1.com adding the daily news briefs, instead of weekly updates.
When the newspaper closed in 1997, I asked Robert if he was interested in continuing and developing the potential of dr1. The rest you know.
That would be cool...yvette said:Dolores,
Will there be a 10th anniversary celebration January 2006?
Ten years of fantastic insight, information, laughs, love and informative debates should NOT go uncelebrated.
Yvette