To celebrate The Gathering Place's five-year anniversary in July 2002, we began a special
tribute to the site and its history. Yes, we're patting ourselves on the back. Who better?
This page will be continually updated as the site grows. Enjoy!
Mary and Allegra
for the Family of MakersDozn
| 10/21/09: |
In preparation for GeoCities' closing on 10/26/08, The Gathering Place moves to a
full-fledged domain hosted by the same service where the domain is registered. The site
redesign continues.
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| 7/08: |
The Gathering Place gets a "facelift" with an update of its features section, as well as upgraded buttons
throughout the site.
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| 11/04: |
MakersDozn's WebJournal moves to Journalspace to take advantage of additional
features.
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| 9/04: |
The MakersDozn Household enters the age of blogging when we create and inaugurate
MakersDozn's WebJournal, hosting it at BraveJournal and linking it to
The Gathering Place via Talk to Us!.
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| 6/02: |
The Gathering Place wins the MPD Awareness Award, presented
by Labyrinth of People.
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| 7/6/01: |
Following the closing of Susogi.net, the GP site moves back to GeoCities, directing its
three domain names to lead to the URL http://www.geocities.com/gp_creative/ .
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| 5/00: |
The Gathering Place wins Bruce's Award of Courage for Being
Prepared to Talk About It.
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| 4/24/99: |
In an effort to secure the rights to all three top-level versions of the GP domain, the
administrators of The Gathering Place purchase gathering-place.com and gathering-place.net, and direct both to lead to
the GP homepage. (Try it! You'll see!:-)
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| 9/13/98: |
The Gathering Place moves to Susogi.net, an ad-free web hosting service for
members of the Divided Hearts Forums community and other survivors.
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| 9/98: |
The Gathering Place wins the Be Kind to Yourself Freedom Award,
presented by Abhaya.
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| 8/25/98: |
The administrators of The Gathering Place purchase the domain gathering-place.org.
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| 9/97: |
The Gathering Place wins the DHearts Susogi Award, presented
by the founder of Divided Hearts Forums.
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| 7/16/97: |
The Gathering Place officially opens, making its debut on GeoCities at the URL
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/8432/ . |
| Late 1996: |
The MakersDozn Household first takes the MakersDozn screen name to participate in forums
on America Online and opens a precursor to The Gathering Place on AOL. |
