Happy 20th Anniversary...

[Unimatic1140]

Just wanted to let everyone know that on May 20, 2001 at 4:44pm central time this website officially went live, it's our 20th anniversary today! Hard to believe its been 20 years! The site's original name was Classic Appliances, but I changed the name to automaticwasher and reworked the forum in 2004.

Originally we were on a Yahoo! club since 1999, but in 2001 the office I was working in started blocking access to Yahoo clubs at work and I was pissed, so I showed them by creating our own stand alone website (which they never blocked lol). That was initially the impetus for creating this website!

 

[chachp]

 

 

<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 36pt;">Happy Anniversary!!</span>

 

[petek]

Happy Anniversary

Congratulations. It's been so long I can't recall when I joined but it must have been before 2004. This is what getting old does to one lol.

 

[appnut]

Wow Robert, I knew it was coming up soon. 20 years of appliance bliss. Wow, just checked, and i joined that day. After being a part of all of us from the Yahoo days.

Next is the 20th anniversary of the first wash-in August 2001.

 

[ea56]

Thanks and Congratulations Robert!

This is a real accomplishment on your part keeping this website and group together for 20 years!  I’m still a relative newcomer, my 7th anniversary as a member of AW.org will be next month on the 16th, although I had been following the site for almost 4 years before I joined.

 

You really do a tremendous job and I appreciate your efforts very much

 

Eddie 

 

[repairguy]

Happy anniversary and thanks so much for creating a site that brought new life to my favorite hobby. Without this site I would not have saved quite a few relics from the crusher. While I’ve only been here 5 years or so I usually stop by at least twice a day. Thank you!

 

[Ultramatic]

 

 

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[foraloysius]

Happy anniversary! Great to be part of this community and that for 20 years now.

 

[vacbear58]

Happy Anniversary

Robert

To have kept this site going for 20 years is a real achivement, thank you for all that you do for us to keep it going.

Here's to the next 20 years

Al

 

[gusherb]

Happy anniversary. It's been almost 9 years since I signed up already, and I think I've been lurking for 12 years now. One of the best sites around to use. More modern websites have alot of functionality issues that yours doesn't.

 

[turquoisedude]

Wow!  Happy Anniversary!  

 

Many thanks for creating and maintaining this melting pot of appliance knowledge, appreciation, and preservation!!

 

[circlew]

<span style="text-decoration: underline; color: #33cccc;">Happy Anniversary!</span>

 

Thanks, Robert, for creating this informative and entertaining website!

 

[peteski50]

20th Anniversary!

Wow 20 years went real fast. Robert thanks for all your hard work it is really appreciated.
Best Wishes,
Peter

 

[mrboilwash]

Happy anniversary to AW.org and thanks to everyone for all the fun and drama and kind words!
Have been a member for over 15 years and I wouldn`t want to miss a single day of it.

There is only one thing I miss a bit from the old days. At the beginning there wasn`t a lot of Facebook yet and much more personal stuff was shared here on AW which made me feel like being a part of the family even though I`ve never met anyone. Nowadays a lot of activity seems to have moved to Facebook.

Anyway looking forward to the next 20 years!

 

[firedome]

Thanks....

for those 20 years, it's the most congenial site on the web!

 

[pulltostart]

Thank you Robert!

Checking in with AW is the best part of each day.  Thank you for the vision to create a place like this and the perseverance to stay with it (and with each of us)!

 

lawrence

 

[imperial70]

Thank you

For All that you do. Happy Anniversary.

 

[spiralator60]

Happy 20th Anniversary

Robert,

Thank you, congratulations, and happy anniversary for all that you have done over the years, and continue to do!

 

[rp2813]

Robert, congratulations and thank you so much for all you've done over the past 20 years.

 

I don't even know what life would be like without AW.org.