Site Growth
While we've increased the number of files we offer by a factor of one hundred, the number of web sites offering detailed area code information has ballooned as well*:
1996
(3)
1997
(17)
1998
(44)
1999
(67)
2000
(106)
*source - Yahoo main title search averaged over the course of a calendar year and rounded to the nearest integer.
Site History and Milestones
1996
Compiling 26 months
worth of FIDO postings,
John Cropper
augments them with CLEC-provided information and
posts a simple, text-based web site on the-server.com
The site draws
10,000 visitors by the end of 1996
1997
Exchange and
dialing information is expanded
AreaCode-Info.Com launches
as a graphical,
domain-based web site, which quickly becomes a
book-marked resource for IXC and CLEC personnel
industry-wide.
Daily traffic
reaches 100 unique visitors per weekday
1998
Taking a crash-course
in cartography, an AC-I-designed
maps section is added in earnest.
The press sits up
and takes notice: "AreaCode-Info.com
contains probably the most detailed history of area codes
on the Web and maybe anywhere." - Ronald Campbell,
Orange County Register 10/15/98
Site staff doubles as
Eric Morson volunteers his talents.
1999
Daily traffic reaches
150 unique visitors per weekday and
the site ticks its 100,000th visitor
Site staff increases
again as Sergiu Rosenzweig steps
in to assist with analysis.
2000
Traffic surges as AreaCode-Info.Com's US Area Code
Maps are published in ABC Directory
The Los Angeles
Times interviews and quotes Eric
Morson in a December article about California's Area
Code Crisis.
The site reaches
its 250,000th visitor
2001
The press focuses on
area codes as AreaCode-Info.Com
is featured in USA Today, The New York Times and
Canada's National Post during the first quarter.
Eric Morson is
the featured guest on WCTC-AM's
call-in show concerning New Jersey's area code crunch.
The site ticker rockets
past the 500,000 visitor mark
2002
A back-to-basics
design is rolled out (you're looking
at it!) and faster-loading pages are incorporated.
The one millionth
visitor drops in to visit during
the third week of May.
2004
Our TWO millionth
visitor checks in!
2007
Our THREE millionth
visitor checks in during the second week of April!
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That figure does not include the advertising you see, which is generated off-site and fed to us from a third-party and helps to partially offset the operational costs of this site.
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