Hard to believe, but two years ago today, Kevin decided my code was bug- free enough to take down the beta sign and unleash Digg upon the world. It’s been a crazy and exciting time since then, and we owe it all to you – the loyal and passionate members of the Digg community.

To those of you who have spent countless hours finding the coolest and timeliest content on the Internet, I and the entire Digg team would like to personally thank you for your contributions and loyalty.

Some trivia –

• First story to hit the home page after officially releasing: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Cheat_Sheet

• # of users who registered in the first week: 578
• # of registered users today: 707,593

• First 10 users who registered and are still actively Digging:

http://digg.com/users/Waldoze
http://digg.com/users/drinet
http://digg.com/users/mkirk
http://digg.com/users/jkenzer
http://digg.com/users/nickster
http://digg.com/users/Anthony
http://digg.com/users/dkurfurst
http://digg.com/users/bnitro
http://digg.com/users/CUBApete
http://digg.com/users/martinhuard

• # of servers Digg had at launch: 1 (rented)
• # of servers Digg has today: 103

• # of stories submitted the first week: 923
• # of stories submitted last week: 15,412
• # of stories submitted (all-time): 1,001,865

Digg on,

Owen