In 1993, this site made its debut on the Internet as The Canadian Army Home Page. Today, nearly 10 years later, it has been given a new look, new content and a new name: Army.ca
For the past few months, I‘ve been working on updating the site in anticipation of its 10th anniversary. I hope you enjoy the new site, which includes an updated intro, main page, military quotes, updated links, and much more. I‘ve also put together a "flashback" section, showing just how far the site has come over the last 10 years:
http://Army.ca/10th
To help celebrate, several of us are getting together for a tour of the War Museum and then off to the pubs for a few beer. Anyone local to Ottawa is more than welcome to join us.
I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone over the last 10 years for their corrections, assistance, patience and support. Over the years I‘ve seen a lot of people come and go, most good, some bad, but nearly all interesting. This site has been built by it‘s visitors, and therefore belongs to you. Special thanks to everyone for their recent support, including Kurokaze, St.Onge, and especially E-Town.
As a final note of interest, here is some useless trivia about this site:
- The actual 10 year anniversary is in December - I couldn‘t wait
- For almost a year, it was run out of Michigan
- It made the Ottawa Citizen a few years back about NDHQ "spying" on soldiers through these forums
- It predates any official DND web site by 3-4 years
- Estimates are that over 6 billion pages have been served to 2 million visitors
- Over 80% of visitors are from Canada, about 6% from the US and about 0.5% from the UK (the remainder of our visitors are from over 100 other countries)
- DND attempted to "buy out" the site in 1999 (today we have an excellent relationship with DND)
- I bought the "Army.ca" Internet domain from an online dating company, hoping to capitalize on military relationships (I just can‘t make this stuff up!)
Thanks again for making it 10 great years with many improvements.
Enjoy!
P.S. Unfortunately, because of the domain name change, everyone will have to log in to the forums again. Your standard username/password will still work.