On the Administration Control Panel on Formerly Fogbow, it says that the forum was born on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 at precisely 7:00 pm (Eastern US and Canada). That's the birthday of the antibirther community (though there were blogs that predated us).
Brian and Justin created it as Politijab. Fogbow didn't exist on the day it was started, and for many months thereafter.
There's a whole history, but when Fogbow was born (on September 10, 2010), I incorporated the entire database of Politijab, with permission, of course, and then pruned it of non-antibirther political threads, and here we are. That's how the starting date of Formerly Fogbow is a year and a half before the domain name was registered. Which is metaphysically absurd, man.
So January 23rd
isn't really the birthday of Fogbow exactly, but it's the birthday of this community, is more accurate.
Except we're not an antibirther community anymore, having morphed along with the actual real Universe during the course of the last fourteen years. We're an older, wiser, better community than where we started, and I can't wait to experience both 2023 AND 2024 with you and your elk.
Two weeks from yesterday, we turn 14.