December 26, 2017

[Ursuline Chick]

I want to thank Nifty and all the worker bees behind the scenes ... including the Mods. For making this a safe informative place to share our passions and quirks revolving around our fine feathered friends. I am certain Nifty had no idea how fast and furious and tremendous this whole site would turn into...

For what its worth this has been a place of safety to help me keep my sanity in these past few years and I look forward to Many Many more in the future...

Job well Done

deb

Deb, you said it all, Happy Birthday BYC and thank you @Nifty-Chicken

 

[CapricornFarm]

Happy Birthday BYC! I get to celebrate my day in 2 more days!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

 

[AlleysChicks]

Happy Birthday BYC! What a wonderful community I stumbled into! Full of sweet and helpful peeps!

 

[007Sean]

Happy B-day BYC!May BYC have many more!

 

[ChickenGeek_101]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYC!
Lets celebrate!

 

[BantyChooks]

Happy birthday BYC, & thanks to the moderators and administrators for keeping it up and running!

 

[Jucodeo]

Two of my most favorite things so close to eachother... Christmas and BYC’s birthday!

 

[sourland]

Happy Birthday to the BYC community. @Nifty-Chicken and staff - major thanks.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

this isnt the anniversary technically

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/backyardchickens-com-history.9631/#post-69958


• 1999: – A child gets some chickens and his dad creates www.BackYardChickens.com
• Late 2000: – Around October a message board is created on the BYC website using UtlimateBB http://web.archive.org/web/20001001010446/https://www.backyardchickens.com/
• April 2001: – The forum forum software is changed to ikonboard http://web.archive.org/web/20010410072809/https://www.backyardchickens.com/
• Early 2002: – The forum is moved from being hosted on the BYC site to being hosted on a 3rd party site.
• Late 2002: – Cindi (chickchair) is elevated to Admin status at the new forum
• Dec. 2004: – Rob (Nifty-Chicken) gets his first chickens and scours the net for info. Finds BYC and a great group of people who are crazy passionate about raising egg-laying machines!
• Dec. 2004:– Rob starts two new threads on the old BYC and gets a TON of great help from super amazing members.
• Early 2005: – Rob goes back to the old forum and discovers his first thread is gone... turns out old threads are automatically deleted! Rob was upset to loose all the great info he received and quickly created a backup of the second thread so it wouldn’t ever be lost: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/chicken-coop-forum.php
• November 2006: – Rob tries to get onto BYC and can’'t. Goes to the old forum and discovers it has been down for a few MONTHS. Rob becomes the new owner of BYC and is determined to grow the site and community

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• December 2006: It takes about a month to transfer the domain and get the site contents, and upload / update the site to work on the new servers.