PaceAdvantage.com turns 18-years-old this month!
 

Holy freakin' cow (or should I say BULL)!?!?!?

18 years?!?!?!

This website is old enough to vote now.

I can't believe I've been running this place since July 27, 1999.

But here is the proof...the furthest back I go on the Wayback Machine (their first snapshot is in October 1999...but you can see the 7/27/99 date at the bottom of the page):

https://web.archive.org/web/19991013...antage.com:80/

Damn....:lol:

:headbanger:

Very well done.

Definitely say HOLY BULL! Congrats. That is a long time in Internet years.

Old enough to bet a horse race too. :)

and old enough to drink...Bartender, pour him a double and put it on my tab.

Not in the US! :)

18 years old??? That's more mature than a portion of the people that post here!!:lol::lol:

To be serious, congrats Mike. Thank you for the site, and all that you (and the mods) do. This site has helped me learn a lot, laugh a lot, and I've rolled my eyes so hard at times that I've almost Yahtzee'd..... I have only had the opportunity to meet one person from here in real life, but feel like I know so many here.

Hope the next 18 are great, and thanks again!

Love the poll question on that link....should PVal be allowed to ride again? How many times have you used that one since? :lol:

I miss prodigy

And globally ranked now at 5,284 out of 785,860 as a website. ;)

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/paceadvantage.com

I miss AOL dial-up

You did a great job here. Did you ever anticipate the popularity of this site when you first started it?

You're confusing numbers on the alexa website...I'm nowhere near that popular.

And for the record, alexa stats are estimates, and some of them are WAY OFF, unless they are directly hooked into your site, which they are not here...

You should have run with it... :lol:

Congrats PA. As always, classy, tough, fair and even a little bit funny. :cool:

Agree, classy, tough and fair.

All I'll say is that when I turn on ye olde computer (or the wife's ye olde tablet), the first place I go to is Pace Advantage.

You know it, you love it, you can't live without it. :)

Congrats on 18 years! :ThmbUp:

Nice looking site from the start. Congrats! No, Big Congrats!!

Great site. Congrats

Congrats PA! I have certainly enjoyed my 8 plus years as a part of this ride!:headbanger: Here's to the next 18! :ThmbUp:

Congrats Mike!

Well done! :ThmbUp:
And many more years we hope.

Congratulations PA on 18 years. A lot of great horse racing information has gone under the bridge here in that time.

I found this site as a member of the old YouBet message board and someone mentioned it on there. Ahhh, the less than great memory of the old dial up days and the minuscule video screens that would invariably freeze up mid stretch with my horse on a tenuous lead....

I thought when I got a cable modem I would never lose at this game. Somehow I proved myself wrong on that one...

Congrats! Great site and great network of people on board.

Been with you since opening day. It has been a pleasure.

Happy anniversary PA!!!

Congratulations and thank you.

Congratulations and Happy 18th Anniversary!

So, according to the Alexa site you have 7% international viewers. Not bad.

Congratulations & check the 7% of international viewers for terrorists. :)

Wow! 18 years.
Amazing run.

I remember my first few times here....just a few people at the time. Boy did that change in a hurry. The old food fights in OT, in the racing section, ATM_ATW, Peep, Frank, Kat, Sain......you've had a better line up then Law & Order! :pound:
Met a lot of great people through this place over the years, in the real world. Including YOU!

C O N G R A T S U L A T I O N S!!!!!!


And Happy Birthday.

As far as I can tell, this is the best horse racing forum.


AND U got 18 years!


wow,




wow.

Congrats this is the website that I have visited the most in the last 15 years. :headbanger:

Z

Yeah, sure it is! :)

Hope all is well buddy.

All good !!! Hope on your end too ! Hope to see you at Saratoga this year ?

D

Congratulations on a remarkable achievement PA.

Other than Brisnet (for file downloads) this is the only horse racing site that I visit.

Wishing you continued success always.

TJC

Congrats PA

SK

Congratulations PA. You've done a great job with this site. There are so many knowledgeable people here. Handicapping, wagering, racetracks, the industry as a whole etc. (and any other topic one may have questions about) I know you recently did an upgrade to the site and it is very quick now and works great on my computer and my phone. I know you have to do your share of babysitting here but otherwise I like your hands off approach.

For example Facebook is obsessed with forcing user interaction. (I know FB is free and if I don't like it I don't have to use it) I log in to FB on my phone and it calls me Bob. (that's my name) "How are you Bob? You recently took this photo would you like to post it? We made a little video of your last 6 months here would you like to share it?" Facebook I am not interested in sharing every cup of coffee and every toilet flush with every person I have ever met. We get it. If I want to post something, I will! If I am seeking more friends I will do a search!

OK my rant is over. Keep doing what you're doing PA.:ThmbUp:

Congratulations! Well done. I've been around for about 10 of those years and have enjoyed it. Thank you.

Yep, but PA outlasted AOL

Can you imagine? He took down all the big boys

Congrats!
After a few years of posting on the DRF message board, it was shut down. It was by accident that I found this site. So glad I did.

I hope you enjoy the next 18 years too, PA. :ThmbUp::ThmbUp: