Ten years ago, when Skeptical Science (SkS) first went live, John Cook had no inkling of what he had set in motion with the push of the proverbial button. Sifting through the material we have on SkS while putting this post together, I'm quite amazed at what our global team of volunteers has tackled and accomplished over the years. In this article, we'll take a look back and recount some of the pivotal moments in the history of SkS as it evolved from a personal database to a website reaching thousands of people around the globe each day.
As this turned into a fairly long post, you can jump to individual years via these links or the respective buttons:
You'll notice the "ornamental" graphics at the bottom of each year's post and in case that you are wondering what these are, here is the overall picture. It shows the evolution of SkS from a "one-man-blog" to a big and global team effort.
Shown are the number of blogs written per author in a year. Numbers for 2017 go to the end of June.
Thanks to John Garrett (jg) for creating the artwork accompanying this series of articles!
Posted by BaerbelW on Tuesday, 22 August, 2017
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