Happy Birthday WinCustomize!
From tiny niche site, to community giant!
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According to what I've been able to dig out of the Internet Wayback Machine, today is WinCustomize's 7th birthday!
Originally launched on March 13th, 2001 in the aftermath of the dot-com bust that took out many popular skinning sites, specifically the original Skinz.org, WinCustomize is now the largest site on the Internet dedicated to GUI Customization with over 1 million pageviews per day, serving visitors from all over the globe.
Today, our combined galleries hold over 75,000 user-submitted skins and screenshots, we recently passed our 3,000,000th registered user and our forums are more active and friendly than they've been in years. Who would have thought, 7 years ago, that WinCustomize and skinning would be where it is today?
Where were you when WinCustomize launched? Were you a refugee from another skin site, or had you not yet discovered the joys of OS customization?
It's definitely been a wild ride, with the site and community undergoing a lot of changes over the years. It's been a great seven years, and here's to at least seven more!
I came here from the skinz.org site during its downward spiral. Many a site has come and gone in those days.
site around!
Here's to a great seven years, and to many, many more! 
