In the beginning, there was Blink-182. At least, in the beginning of what is now Absolutepunk.net. For those that don’t know, this site started off as a Blink-182 and MXPX fan site in 1998 and then became what we now know as Absolutepunk.net on June 6, 2000. It has burgeoned into one of the most prominent alternative music sites on the Internet, with Blender Magazine recently featuring CEO/Webmaster Jason Tate on their list of online music influences. 40,000 news articles, 1000 reviews, and 350 interviews later, the most important aspect of the site is not content that staff generates…it is what you, the reader, does for the site.
With over 150,000 members, it should come as no surprise that without you, this site would not exist today. Absolutepunk.net has grown from a news magazine into its own entity: a veritable Internet community. Your comments in news posts have an enormous impact on how some record companies and bands operate. Some bands have been signed as a direct response to the interest you all have shown. Heck, Hawthorne Heights named a song after someone’s post in a news post about the band.
If you go past the news page, you will find the forums. This is an entirely separate community that has grown further and more close-knit than most people think the Internet can allow, with members working together to create an AP music compilation, comprised of original songs from the Absolutepunk forums. Another one is currently in the works. The forums have become not only a place to talk about anything, but a place that has formed numerous friendships and spawned its own culture of inside jokes and AP memes.
We at Absolutepunk.net would like to thank you profusely for helping what was initially a fan site into so much more than we could have ever expected. What we want to know this week is simple—how did you find Absolutepunk.net? We’re interested to see where each of you has come from to make our community so diverse. Was it from a record label? Did you hear about us from a band? Was it in an album’s liner notes or was it a Google search? What brought you here?
Now that you have found the site, do you have a favorite memory from this site? Perhaps some of you revel in the fact that you took Tom Delonge’s scene points? Does Vag>Pen mean anything to you? Dear Fiance… may ring a bell and the lurker bar may be a distant memory at this point, but how many of you remember Punk or Not? What is your most distinct and favorite memory created on this website?
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With over 150,000 members, it should come as no surprise that without you, this site would not exist today. Absolutepunk.net has grown from a news magazine into its own entity: a veritable Internet community. Your comments in news posts have an enormous impact on how some record companies and bands operate. Some bands have been signed as a direct response to the interest you all have shown. Heck, Hawthorne Heights named a song after someone’s post in a news post about the band.
If you go past the news page, you will find the forums. This is an entirely separate community that has grown further and more close-knit than most people think the Internet can allow, with members working together to create an AP music compilation, comprised of original songs from the Absolutepunk forums. Another one is currently in the works. The forums have become not only a place to talk about anything, but a place that has formed numerous friendships and spawned its own culture of inside jokes and AP memes.
We at Absolutepunk.net would like to thank you profusely for helping what was initially a fan site into so much more than we could have ever expected. What we want to know this week is simple—how did you find Absolutepunk.net? We’re interested to see where each of you has come from to make our community so diverse. Was it from a record label? Did you hear about us from a band? Was it in an album’s liner notes or was it a Google search? What brought you here?
Now that you have found the site, do you have a favorite memory from this site? Perhaps some of you revel in the fact that you took Tom Delonge’s scene points? Does Vag>Pen mean anything to you? Dear Fiance… may ring a bell and the lurker bar may be a distant memory at this point, but how many of you remember Punk or Not? What is your most distinct and favorite memory created on this website?
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