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July
2000 |
The
domain name kyband.com is registered
and the web site is opened by Rick
Gardner of Greenville, Kentucky.
The site is billed as the The
Kentucky Band Internet Community.
The site offered chat, free email,
forums, a guest book and links. The
site was hosted on Virtual Avenue
which was a free host at that time. |
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May
2001 |
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com is
opened by Kristin Childers of
Paducah, Kentucky. The site is
named Kentucky High School Marching
Bands. The site began archiving
marching band information including
repertoires, directors names and
KMEA placement back to 1986. (The
first year for the KMEA SMBC).
Also, contest information including
scores, is made available starting
with the 2001 marching season. |
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September 2002 |
The
two websites began to work in
association. Rick Gardner begins to
design the home page for both
sites. The kyband.com site is
renamed "kyband.com in association
with Kentucky Marching Bands" the
name for the 50megs site is also
changed to reflect the new
association. |
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September 2003 |
The
two domains began sharing the same
home page. The names of both sites
are changed to "kyband.com and
Kentucky Marching Bands". |
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March
2004 |
The
home page for
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com is
closed. All visitors to that domain
are forwarded to the kyband.com home
page. Both sites are merged at this
time. All pages are available
through kyband.com and the the
50megs site is used to archive the
marching band portions of the site. |
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June
2004 |
Repertoires prior to 2002 are
removed from the website. Due to
copyright issues with several band
programs the historical
repertoires were removed from the
site. We still have them and hope
that we may be able to restore them
in the future. |
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January 2005 |
Chris
Teesdale joins kyband.com to assist
with the Calendar and News pages. |
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August
2005 |
All
pages at
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com are
mirrored at kyband.com so the
marching information will be
available to school networks that
are blocking websites using
50megs.com hosting. |
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October 2005 |
The
KMEA State Marching Band
Championship celebrates its 20th
year and recognizes kyband.com for
providing the state championship
information from the last 20 years. |
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November 2005 |
All
files at
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com are
moved to the new sub-domain at
marching.kyband.com. Pages at
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com are no
longer being updated. |
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February 2006 |
Rick
Gardner webmaster for kyband.com
presents a technology session at the
2006 KMEA Conference on "How to set
up and maintain a classroom
website". |
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May
2006 |
The
kymarchinghistory.50megs.com site is
restored to a stand alone site so
that websites with links to those
pages will continue to work. |
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April 2007 |
The kyband.com home
page exceeds 1.5 million visitors. |
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September 2008 |
The kyband.com home
page exceeded 2 million visitors and
over 9 million pages viewed. |
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May 2009 |
The kyband.com home
page exceeded 2,220,000 visitors and
over 9,500,000 pages viewed. |
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December 2009 |
The kyband.com home
page exceeded 2,450,000 visitors and
over 10,130,000 pages viewed. |
