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![]() By Richard Rost ![]() ![]() Where Does 599cd Come From? Lots of people ask me what this 599cd.com is that everyone sees in random places on my website including most of my URLs. Well if you care here's the story...
I used to advertise my business with a fax-delivered newsletter called ComputerFAQs. It was very popular. At one point I had a circulation of over 20,000. Of course, that was before the "junk fax" laws they have today. Still, people loved my newsletter. Some would actually call if they didn't get their newsletter that month.
Flash forward a few years and everyone started getting high speed Internet and YouTube became popular so I no longer had to ship actual physical CDs. I could just post videos online. The quality was crappy at first, but as you can see today everyone is streaming HD video Looking to improve my brand name I purchased ComputerLearningZone.com and a few others like AccessLearningZone.com and ExcelLearningZone.com. They're catchy names and great for mentioning in my videos, however my website was still built on the 599cd.com domain name.
So that's where the name comes from. Now you know and thanks for reading my history lesson. LOL By the way, those are some actual screen shots I found in the Internet Wayback Machine. It's a cool site that captures snapshots of every web site going back decades. You can see the evolution of pretty much any site since its beginning. I took the ALZ screen shots from the first video to have the name Access Learning Zone. Check out that awesome picture quality. Wow. I need to re-record those old ones. Will someone please add another 20 hours to each day? Thanks!
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