# Happy Birthday arnodenhond.com

I first registered this domain on the 8th day of the 8th month of 2008 which is exactly 2⁴ years ago, more than a third of my life!

It was not the first domain I registered. I have also owned zodsoft.com and denhond.com but the former was free/ad supported and I let the latter lapse.

I registered arnodenhond.com through Google Domains and to this day I still have free use of Google Workspaces (legacy free edition). I can receive email on this domain but i rarely use it. I might hook the domain up to Proton Mail in the future.

[https://who.is/whois/arnodenhond.com](https://who.is/whois/arnodenhond.com)

Over the years the site has looked quite different even tough i used google sites most of the time. Here are some screenshots of my website over the years. (courtesy of archive.org)

The very first version hosted on Google Sites:

![One of the first versions of my website](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1723092053046/436f52e3-b825-4be4-9a2a-28d07bd012b7.png align="center")

My Android website: (I also used to host downloadable graphics themes for one of my apps straight from this website)

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1723093091298/150313de-ac02-4156-bb35-e84998fe43bf.png align="center")

Unfortunately Google Analytics doesn't show statistics from before 2015 but at one point this site actually got a modest amount of visitors every day. People mostly came to download my GraphView component. (which has since been stolen by someone else!)

I had Google Adsense banners on it but I never made much money with that.

A few years ago Google upgraded Sites and the conversion didn't work so I started using a Trello board as website:

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1723092675229/5bf9b7f7-9c5f-415f-aa9e-d78e2ed824a8.png align="center")

Since 2 months I've been using Hashnode which is alright, so far.

I'm planning to post more articles to this blog in the future, so stay tuned!