Goodreads.ca sort of began three years ago today. I say that because it really began in November 2003, and I worked on prepping the site for a January launch. Today marks the day I sent the first email to a small number of people. It grew from there. The domain name was only registered in March of 2004, and the server space to host it was also purchased at that time.

2004 – Goodreads is established. The pattern of theme, link and quote from the article in question is developed. The list structure develops into a blog on the web, as I wanted to offer an RSS feed and at the time it was the only way I could do it. This blog format goes against what I originally conceived would be a simple archive page. During the next eighteen months, I achieve the goal of growing the list by %1000.

2005 – Goodreads homepage is redesigned. The increasing presence online of video and audio shifts Goodreads from being primarily textual to taking advantage of the post-modernist understanding of all media being a form of text which is ‘read’, that is, interpreted. (Goodreads could be renamed Goodinterpretations).

2006 – Goodreads is a mixture of the ‘traditional’ link structure and the super-duper compilation. The focus begins to shift from ‘making people aware’ to documenting my interpretation and mindfulness of the web. Goodreads begins to incorporate YouTube and Google Video compilation pages.