Metropulse.com

[edens]

Stymied by a date I'm trying to track down for something. Anyone out there (Ian? You in?) recall when Metropulse.com made its original debut?

[metulj]

Stymied by a date I'm trying to track down for something. Anyone out there (Ian? You in?) recall when Metropulse.com made its original debut?

July 1996 according to NetCraft. Seems about right, if not a bit later than I would suspect.

[DnB]

According to Metropulse history:

August 18-19, 1991
In Blackburn's cluttered Fort Sanders apartment, Pearson, Weston, and Blackburn assemble the first issue of a new magazine. One promising title is Hot Stuff. Unable to come up with anything better, the near-editors call the magazine Metro Pulse. Blackburn recalls it as "an all-night affair that made plain what kind of hell we had gotten into." Local authorities seize Pearson's car from the private-apartment parking lot, delaying delivery of the first issue. The project seems cursed.

August 19, 1991
Days before Whittle Communications moves into its shimmering new headquarters, the first issue of Metro Pulse appears in downtown Knoxville in a small format, about the size of a real-estate sales tabloid.

[edens]

Thanks guys. It's the website date I'm digging for.

[jah]

I tried the wayback machine, but this (http://web.archive.org/web/19961231012151/http://metropulse.com/) was the first one it found, which doesn't say when it first started. But that's December '96.

[jah]

Or maybe it does.

The archive on that page goes back to the Feb 1-8th addition - and an article by Bill Dockery.

[Raincrow]

If only they'd stuck with "Hot Stuff." Knoxville needs a Lad Mag of its own. A tasteful one, of course.

[Ian]

Middle of August '96. I can probably dig up the exact date.

(wait, it might possibly have been '95. I do know it was August, at least)

[edens]

Close enough for jazz, thanks.

(Well, shit...this is no time to go all wobbly on me)