About
11 Jun 2009 by Matt, No Comments »
History
Back in 2001 the company I worked for (Vital Online) offered all employees a free domain and hosting as a staff benefit. I thought long and hard about it. I had a few ideas of domains – all had gone, then I came up with Dragondrop. The phrase Drag And Drop was at the time rooting itself into household computing phraseology. At the time we’d just moved into an area of Harrogate where an Avenue, Road and Parade all had the suffix ‘Dragon’ so with the above in mind, and the notion for a dot org – a not for profit organization, I plumped for DragonDrop.org and the rest – voila.
The holding page from summer 2001 – still available for your perusal at archive.org boasted an offering of bog reads and anti boredom leads. I still quite like that.
Dragondrop.org’s first regular content was provided by the watchcam stuff – I was obsessed with my Casio WQV-3 and later the colour WQV-10 which later spawned the worlds leading watchcam forum also hosted on DragonDrop.org.
In 2002 I’d seen a few blogs – so – I decided to start one of my own just before a big trip to Australia and the blog has been the main stalwart of the domain since.
More recently, the shirts cam along – an idea inspired by an outward bound type shop who had photos of their bags from all over the world – I did the same thing with T-Shirts – if ANYONE I KNOW is going somewhere cool, I’ll give them a shirt and say – get yourself photographed somewhere wearing this and I’ll stick you in the gallery.
The forum (now dead, RIP) morphed into a rather popular social network covering a vast range topics and conversations. FIRE (party) was largely spawned and informed from the ‘DragonDrop community’.
Technology
Blogger then wordpress drive the back end. Flickr hosts the photo cloud. Various cameras, phones, computers, connections and box fuls of assorted gadgets and toys. One of the most significant gadgets would be the WQV-10 which spawned the watchcam adventures. (Now RIP.. some of it is still kicking around)
People
Matt is currently a lead designer for a holiday company.
– Husband of Eirene, Father of Felix, Jaygo & Sophie.
Eirene day job – looking after 3 boys (Matt, Felix and Jaygo) and a princess (Sophie Pi),
– Author of children’s novels, short stories and poems.
Felix is son No1 of Matt & Eirene, born in 1998
“20th Century Boy”
Jaygo is son No2 of Matt & Eirene, born 2001
“21st Century Boy”
Sophie is daughter No1 of Matt & Eirene, born 2006
DragonDrop is also frequented by a a lovely group of friends.
. . . the pets
3 cats- Jasper the black moggy and Misty the neurotic Persian Gray. An old boy called Mel who moved in, we tried to shoo him off but he wasn’t having it, who we found had a microchip that showed he was originally from York, born in 1997, owner no longer known at the address, phoned round every vet in Harrogate to no avail so we kept him.
1 dog called Elsie who is a Springador / Labradinger (springer x labrador).
n fish
Well done for reading all of this. Have a lollipop.
