Even as late as now I still get an average of one or two emails or PMs per week from someone that just saw that thread, LOL. I got thousands while it was active and hundreds per month the first year
Links ended up on a Jeepgals forum and also a nurse's forum who were all concerned about my plight and willing to help me with my problem, LOL
If you read that thread closely, within a week there was a response from every continent including Antarctica - I was expecting something to come in from the Mir space station by then
I left home and hid for a week when a radio station van parked in front of my house waiting for me to come home, I got an email from the president of some newsgroup in Japan wanting to fly me to Japan and interview me, I was told several major celebrities considered covering the story (or maybe they did but I didn't hear about it), etc etc etc. And the morning gang DJs at a rock station in Philadelphia wrote a song to the tune of "Carolina in the morning" - nothing could be finer than to get some Herculiner on your hooooo- tus
I oculd go on and on. When we ran the Rubicon last summer, we hit a traffic jam on Cadillac Hill and ended up talking to a drunk yahoo in a sombrero who asked me and Ray where we were from - when Ray told him about our website, he said "yeah, I've heard of your site, that's where some idiot got Line-X on his d*ck".
It will never end
I expanded worldwide brand recognition for Herculiner - more than their top salesperson ever would - and all I got from them was a gimme cap, lol.
In the old version of this board the hit count maxed out at 65,535 hits. It reached that days after the thread started. Much later on after the thread was old, Rick upgraded the software and the hit counter started again. It's had a LOT more hits than the amount that shows now; it probably reached that amount during the first week.
One thing that thread did was prove to me how scarily powerful and immediate the internet is. I cannot remember our size exactly, but at that time this site had maybe less than 2,000 members. The fact that the entire world was in on it within a single week and it's probably taken a million hits is mind-boggling.
