Congratulations! I’m one of the lucky 100 who ordered Boing Boing #1 out of Factsheet Five (still have it down in my basement horde) and I’ve been enjoying your good work ever since. Thanks much for the daily delights you blog has fed my brain for the last 20 years (and for the sporadic brain food for the 13 years before that). You all truly make the world a better place… keep those wonderful things coming!
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Happy everything and thanx for all the wonderful - and not so wonderful - stuff!
Time sure flies, I was in Kigali, lovely Rwanda when this one happened 
The magazine rack at Tower Records had all sorts off off-brand and subversive magazines on offer in the early 90s, and was the only reason why I ever went into the store. And that’s where I came across my first copy of BoingBoing magazine. I still have it. Somewhere. Anyway, thanks to all involved for continuously and reliably providing interesting stuff to comment on, and for making a great place to hang out all you other clever mutants.
Looking forward to seeing what happens in the next 20 (or 33) years.
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Congratulations!
I never saw the print mag, and can no longer recall when I stumbled across the website. (It was back in my AOL days, so it was many years ago…) But I can say I’ve learned, and laughed, so much from all the articles about so many Wonderful Things. And I’ve truly enjoyed, and am proud of, my five years experience posting on the BBS. Thanks and love to the Authors, Mods, and my fellow Happy Mutants. Here’s to many more years!
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Congrats, and long may you continue.
(Anyone else think bOING bOING should be pronounced with glottal stops? B’oing?)
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Congratulations on twenty years of providing us with the cultural, social, artistic, political, eclectic mix of information that we’ve grown to love! Like some others, I never knew about the print version, but I’ve been reading the blog for well over a decade and contributing my (arguably terrible) humor to the forums for years. I come here pretty much daily.
And it was these forums where Corey first told me about Viable Paradise, which I applied for and was thrilled to be accepted into. The lessons I learned there helped me improve my writing. Since then, I’ve had multiple story sales and have become a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a dream I harbored since I was a boy. I can honestly say that Boing Boing has had a profound impact on my life, and I am forever grateful.
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MAY THE WONDERFULL THINGS OF BOING BOING NEVER FADE AWAY!
(filler text so I can post such a short and meaningful sentence)
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This is your brain … on a pair of 555 timers and some red leds. “Ceci n’est pas un ordinateur”.
I used to buy factsheet five, bOingbOing and Mondo 2000 in Forbidden Planet and Compendium (much missed) in London. Happy days, cutting out the pics and posting them in the kitchen of our software startup. Another worth a mention from the same time was Fringeware, now sadly in the bitrot bucket.
Congrats on keeping it going for so long. I hope it’s another 33 years before it goes to that great /dev/null in the sky.
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Me three having bought some of the zine at Tower at 4th & Broadway and later when they moved the books section to one street behind in the 90s.
Dont know for sure at what point I started with the website but must have been very early in the 00s.
Happy birthday to the editors, even those I can’t stand to read!
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met my forever mate in 1990/91 and through her we found bOING bOING’s webpage through Cory Doctorow’s existence. She explained how she had met him when he worked in a book store in Toronto and liked his work as an author too.
I feel my online relationship with this site is as old as my life with her but that is obviously impossible. but it proves that pleasant, useful, and wonderful things get filed in one’s memories as having always been there.
<3
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Happy Anniversary! I’m proud to have been part of bOING bOING (the zine), and have fond memories of those days reading through slush piles, writing ‘fiction that bleeds truth,’ and wrangling the bOING bOING visit to Austin for the Armadillocon panel.
“Aren’t you Gerald McBoing-Boing, the lad who makes squeaks? Why, boy, I’ve searched for you many long weeks. I can make you the most famous lad in the nation, for I own the… [plays “dong, ding, dong” on bells]… radio station. I need a smart fellow to make all the sounds, to bark like a dog… [Gerald barks]… and bay like the hound. [Gerald howls] Your ‘dong’ is terrific, your ‘toot’ is inspired. [Gerald makes bell sounds] Quick, come to… [dong, ding, dong]… McBoing-Boing, you’re hired!”
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Happy 20th. You guys made me into the happy mutant I am today. Proud to be a Boinger!
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I thought you were kidding, guess I’m not in the loop
Congratulations on a monumental blogiversary. I’ve been harvesting your best material for at least 12 years, so I’m eagerly looking forward to your continuing productivity.
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Congratulations!
I came in with print issue #9, and was on the really early proto-BoingBoing.
(And I was a guest blogger for a week around 2001? I remember posting about a headless plush toy sitting on the margin of a 101 exit ramp, and a tampon case with hilarious illustrations.)
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For those who don’t recognize you both 
I hope your case eventually was resolved favorably, I couldn’t track down a final answer in the brief time I had to research 
Look at this 20 year old blog. Just look at it!!
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Happy Birthday Boing Boing! This is one of my favorite places on the internet. Keep up the great work, and WOW– seriously great chunk of history here for real!
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Congratulations, Mark and crew! Hey, next year boingboing.net will be able to legally drink! (or are the servers hosted in Canada and I’m late to that party?).
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