After two and a half years in the making, Clipgarden is officially ready for the public. To commemorate the event, we thought we’d share a little history, as one day these random factoids will be regurgitated in many college textbooks, business case studies, and become part of California’s entrepreneurial lore.

Many ideas have been made over the past 2 years – some good, some incredibly bad. You’ll agree we dodged a few bullets.

Historical Factoids

Inception date: August 8, 2005

Original product codename: Juli (translated as “Risk” the board game in Malay – bad idea)

Original URL ideas: monkeydo, prosource, secondgig, gigbits, demogig (all bad ideas)

Original beers consumed: Newcastle Brown Ale (good idea)

Original computer used: MacBook Pro (good idea)

Original servers purchased: (2) Refurbished IBM xSeries 345 DUAL P4 XEON 2.4Ghz

Original application server: .NET (worst idea)

Original test clip: Clipgarden Leaf Clip

Original logo: (not too shabby)

Original sketches: (bad Sharpie skills)

Original rough designs: (all bad ideas)

We hope this bit of Clipgarden’s history shows we’re committed to making gradual improvements to the website. We’ll keep cycling out bad ideas in favor of good ones, improving our great experiment. Let us know what you think, as your feedback is critical to our continued success.

Look out for some exciting new features in the coming months. Stay tuned. :)