| 1994 |
Aug 19th 1994
| Midwest FlyTyer goes online via the URL: www.interaccess.com/~sbs/ |
| | Now defunkt |
| 1995 |
Jan 1st 1995
| MWFlytyer.com is born |
| | Steve creates the MidWest FlyTyer home page |
Oct 10th 1995
| Fishing Denmark is born |
| | Martin's newsletter-like mail document on fishing in Denmark, which he has been mailing to people, gets transformed into a web page |
| 1996 |
Apr 1st 1996
| The first GFF blog starts |
| | Called "Fishing now" and most likely the first fishing blog on the web and one of the first blogs at all - before the concept of blogs was really known, actually |
Nov 15th 1996
| Martin and Steve meet for the first time |
| | GFF's founding fathers meet at the International FlyTyers Symposium in New Jersey |
| 1998 |
Jan 1st 1998
| Raske's New England Streamer page is born |
| | History, patterns, swaps and tricks - all about NE Streamers |
Aug 10th 1998
| Martin visits with Steve in Chicago, IL |
| | They both tie at a local fly show |
| 1999 |
Jan 1st 1999
| Raske creates the Streamers list at Mint |
| | The mailing list still exists. It now runs as a Yahoo! group. |
Apr 20th 1999
| GFF Grand Opening |
| | The announcement is made. GFF as we know it is born. |
Nov 1st 1999
| Raske joins GFF with the Streamers page |
| | He is on the lookout for server space. GFF provides it through the partnership |
Dec 15th 1999
| Bob P joins GFF |
| | Bob has already contributed articles to all three sites and is a natural fourth partner |
Dec 25th 1999
| First GFF E-greetings service on the air |
| | It would later die because of technical problems |
| 2000 |
Jan 1st 2000
| The wallpaper page aires |
| | This is the single most succesful activity on GFF |
Jan 8th 2000
| GFF is heading for 1000 visitors a day |
| | We're roaring! We usually have a bout 6-700 visitors a day, but these last days we have slowly grown to close to a thousand! The 5th was 928, the 6th 911. Let's get it up there! A thousand a day - every day! |
Jan 19th 2000
| All four GFF partners meet at The Fly Fishing Show 2000 |
| | Until this day (mid July 2005) the only time all four have met physically |
Feb 1st 2000
| GFF venture into banner ads - and out again |
| | Administration vastly surpasses potential advantages - not to speak of income (or lack of same) |
Mar 20th 2000
| Steve Visits Martin in Denmark for the first time |
| | And goes to Bornholm |
Jun 23rd 2000
| The first GFF newsletter goes out |
| | Number of subscriptions grow to 300 |
Sep 8th 2000
| Martin visits with Steve in Parker, CO |
| | Fishing and GFF planning is done for a couple of weeks. |
Nov 29th 2000
| The last newsletter leaves GFF - subject is: Newsletter Glitches |
| | The newsletter shuts down due to technical problems |
| 2002 |
Jan 22nd 2002
| We get the first order into our online shop |
| | We sell caps and shirts |
Apr 2nd 2002
| Steve Visits Denmark for the second time |
| | And goes to Bornholm again |
Nov 17th 2002
| A new automated system goes online |
| | Consistent section front pages, keywords and sitemap is introduced |
| 2003 |
Aug 15th 2003
| GFF's weblog goes online |
| | We also want a blog - now we have Blog Creek |
Sep 18th 2003
| We get the last order into our online shop, which has actually already closed |
| | It's hard to make money on the web. Our expenses, particularly to postage, are significantly larger than the income. |
| 2004 |
Jun 8th 2004
| GFF now has an RSS feed |
| | Want GFF on your site? |
| 2005 |
Apr 10th 2005
| A new server is installed |
| | The old 350 MHz Pentium retires |
Jul 12th 2005
| GFF Celebrates its 10th birthday |
| | Somewhere arond this day GFF crossed into its 11th year of exeistance |
Aug 1st 2005
| GFF Pix launches |
| | We open a section where users and visitors can upload their own pictures to share them wit others |
| 2006 |
Jan 14th 2006
| Kasper becomes a partner |
| | Kasper Muhlbach, a Dane living in Sweden is let in to the inner circle of GFF |
Jan 16th 2006
| GFF Podcasts start |
| | Martin starts creating sound reports from his fishng trips |
Sep 14th 2006
| GFF Summit 2006 |
| | The first GFF Summit takes place on Fyn in Denmark with a whole bunch of crazy fly-anglers joining from all over Europe |
| 2007 |
Sep 22nd 2007
| GFF Summit 2007 |
| | The second GFF Summit is arranged. Again on Fyn in Denmark and with lots of fish and anglers |
| 2008 |
Sep 12th 2008
| GFF Summit 2008 |
| | The third and until now last GFF Summit again held on Fyn in Denmark |
Sep 18th 2008
| Another server move starts |
| | GFF is now on its way to a web hotel with the large US web provider Hostgator |
| 2009 |
Feb 18th 2009
| GFF on Twitter |
| | GFF now tweets new articles on this short-text-style social network |
Jun 25th 2009
| 1000 articles |
| | GFF reaches the one thousand article mark - and that doesn't even include a number of older articles |
Dec 10th 2009
| Video section opens |
| | The GFF video section opens offering online fly-fishing and fly-tying videos |
| 2011 |
Jul 8th 2011
| GFF on a virtual server |
| | Thanks to immense growth in size and traffic, GFF has had to move to its own server again - this time a virtual one, but with enough capacity to handle the load |
Aug 10th 2011
| 2000 articles |
| | GFF rounds 2K articles in the article system, but 800 of these are videos, which are registered as articles for technical reasons |
Oct 28th 2011
| GFF redesign |
| | GFF gets a redesign after having looked the same for a decade |
| 2012 |
Feb 16th 2012
| GFF on Facebook |
| | Yes, GFF goes on Facebook, mainly to post articles to whose who want alerts through this large social media site |
Mar 28th 2012
| Visitor record |
| | On this particular day we have 13,544 visitors during 24 hours, a record which still stands late 2012 |
Oct 1st 2012
| GFF store opens |
| | The second ever GFF shop opens - now with mugs, prints, T-shirts and more |
