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Name: Siby
Website:www.joehahn.org

"Back in 2004 (cant remember the exact date) I visited www.joehahn.com. In that time this was the one of the best LP Websites.
I still can remember that a girl named “toxic” owned that page. Anyway I posted in the messageboard and I think in the end i had over 10 000 posts. But in 2006 the Admin of that website closed that website. And before everything got deleted I created another messageboard where the members could continue to post. It wasn´t really that successful. I still can remember that there was a discussion that a few people want to overtake joehahn.com but the owner wasnt really that happy with it.
But then i thought of creating a Joe Hahn Fansite (www.joehahn.co.nr ) on my own. I did so on June 26th 2006. First layout of course sucked.
Through the help of Myspace i got to know more about the whole HTML stuff.

Up to that time i didnt really investigated any money into that website. The domain was a free domain and my website was up at freewebs.com
I also created a Myspace profile to the Joe Hahn Fansite. So I could add people (especially LP Fans) and they got to know more about my website.I posted Bulletins with the newest headlines.
Then suddenly I had my first 100 visitors I was quiet happy.
I added more and more people and I got more and more visitors and one day in summer 2007 .
I got a message from Noel (SURU Myspace) and he wanted toask me wether I can help out with the promoting (posting SURU related stories on joehahn.co.nr) of Joe´s Shop SURU.
That was fine for me and I damn excited when I got that message.

Another thing I can tell is that i started several times a messageboard. But it wasnt really that successful and in the end i gave up.By the way my first Myspace Account with over 4000 friends got deleted. Only god knows the true reason. I started a new one and well......i have just about 2000 friends. More to come! Its always funny when people email you and tell me that they love me...well I have to add that they think that I am Joe. I am not that korean than he is (thank god). And sometimes I get messages from people who went to the same school as Joe did. Yeah it always hurts me to tell them the truth....

Another memorial moment was when joehahn.co.nr and SURU hold their first contest.
You could win a Mr Hahn Ningyo Toy. Click here for the flyer.
In the end Sara from Italy won.
Speaking of the Mr Hahn Nigyo Toy I even got one for free. I didnt even think of getting something for free. I just want to get a little bit attention but getting this for free its just....a reason to continue running that website.

Through that contest my website got more popular and I am damn pleased when people contact me and tell me how awesome my website is. A lot of LP sites get the news from my website and I am connected with a lot of LP sites. Of course there are a few people who have a LP site (mostly the big ones) and think that they are better than you. Hmm... it is their own fault.
But I am always happy that people send emails with LP news or pictures and making joehahn.org better and better.

I dont really know when I changed the domain. Well thst the first case I spent any money into the Website. Well www.joehahn.org is way better. I really would like to have www.joehahn.com but........ unfortunately they owner still has it and doesnt want to give it to me.

And sorry for not remembering when I got to know David. He translates the english news into hungarian. He does it everyday and somehow he doesnt get sick of it. You can give him a applause.
I had a few people who translated the news into different languages. But they never really did that in a regular way as David.
So I am impressed that David is still on board. I am sometimes way too lazy to translate the news into german. And to be honest sometimes I am getting sick of that website cause...I do not really have that much time. I have to see how I can manage it...school and running that website. A few days its damn annoying cause LP is coming up with so many new stuff. Worst time is when they are on the road. People are uploading so many pictures into the Gallery and then there is so much to report. Sometimes is way too much for me. Well its my own fault. I could have a Co-Admin but....nah its nothing for me. I am the one and only onwer of that website.

Then I asked Noel from SURU wether SURU could be a sponsor of my little company which me and my class run for a year. Yes sure SURU became a sponsor. We are quiet successful. Here are our company shirts and here are a few flyers.
When I told that my teacher he really coul not believe it. A lot of classmates were damn excited. But my teacher asked me everytime wether it was really true that SURU wanted to be our sponsor. After we got the money from SURU I never heard that question again.
My teacher already participated in a few other “student- companies” but I think he never had such a popular sponsor. I was ever suprised that it worked out.

Another date you should know is 29th March 2008. A nice hacker destroye my first cutenews account. Firstly I thought he hacked into my main account. Thank god it wasnt so.

I have to tell you that I got to know a lot of nice people just through having that website. Well a few people were annoying....but most of them were nice. I got to know a lot of LP website owner and I notice that there isnt really another Joe Hahn Fansite on the website. Well one but it does not get any update. So my website does not have any competition. That makes my life more easy.
Well Jen (from linkinlady.net) is making websites about almost every LP Member. Hope she doesnt do a Joe Hahn website...*cough*

Well I still have some plans for that website. I want to get to know what I can really archieve and do with that website. I did not really believed that I get any contact to SURU. And now I have it. So I am damn excited what I can archieve with that website.
I am sure that I will make more contests. I can remember a person who even wanted to have an emailadress like this: yourname@joehahn.co.nr (yeah with the old domain).
I do not know wether I can make that possible and I have more ideas. Its great that the summer holiday is coming soon so maybe there will be something new. Another thing I want to archieve is having more visitiors.

So I could make a list of people who I want to thank but this will become an endless list. I just want to thank to everyone who is helping to make joehahn.org more popular an better. The people who who I mean.

In the end I want to add that I am really excited to have so many visitors (now over 100 000), having contact to SURU and get so much attention. I even cant belive that I run this website for almost 2 years.
Thanks folks."