Good news, everyone!

I've got a pair of site updates to dish out for the first day of August. For one, if you search "Inhistoric" in Google, it no longer asks, "Did you mean: 'In historic?" The mighty search engine has finally acknowledged that this site exists, and that you're not making a spelling error if you type in the name of this site. That may not seem like much of an achievement (probably because it isn't), but ever since I started this blog, Google has refused to actually acknowledge Inhistoric as a word... until now.

The reason why it took so long is because of a dumb mistake on my part. When I first got the Inhistoric.com domain name, I just sort of sat on it and began building up the Today in Sports History articles, which you see before you. However, because literally nothing was done to the site in the first five or six months, Inhistoric was pretty much ignored by search engines when I finally started posting.

Let that be a lesson to you prospective bloggers out there: don't make the mistake I did. Put content on your site as quickly as possible, otherwise your page rank will suffer.

In other well-overdue news, Inhistoric has a Twitter page. You can find the link on the left side of the page, right under the "More SB Nation Blogs" section. I've had the Twitter page for a few months, but have pretty much ignored it -- since I've never had the desire to do anything with it. But for those of you who care about Twitter, you now know where to find it. I actually put a little bit of work into making the background wallpaper, which I think looks pretty good; it isn't horrible for Paint Shop Pro 7 editing.

Also in the world of the Internet, how awesome is it that The Pirate Bay is still up and going? Bittorrent sold out YEARS ago, and yet TPB is still going strong, even with the legal mumbo-jumbo it's going through. I mean, it's called The Pirate Bay! How in the world is it still running?!

If you have Firefox, which I highly recommend you do, and you type "inhist" in the google search in the top right hand corner of the browser, the search engine will provide "Inhistoric.com" as a suggestion. I know this isn't much of an accomplishment or anything, but I was actually happy to see it.

I basically chose the name "Inhistoric" because I couldn't think of an original name to call a sports history site, so I figured I'd just make one up -- like Kotaku. Anyway, that turned out to be a REALLY bad decision traffic-wise, since whenever you search Inhistoric on Google, the response is always "Did you mean In historic?" Hopefully though, Inhistoric will become relevent enough that the search engines will actually accept it as a word.

Well, it's been a good... month, but Inhistoric is getting a new look -- as is every site in SB Nation. I'm going to miss this puppy, but hey -- you gotta move forward. You can't spend the rest of your life working on an Apple II with Windows 95 as your operating system. Eventually you gotta bite the bullet and buy Vista or 7. Sure, it'll look different, and I'm sure that I'll hate it the first time I see it. But within a week, I'll have already forgotten the difference.

What does the new site look like? Don't know yet. We'll find out tomorrow...

(via Ruth and Dave's photostream)

Whazzup y'all!

This is Inhistoric, the SB Nation blog intended to be the No. 1 source in sports history. From everything that happened on a certain day of the year, to reliving the greatest moments in sports history, to digging up esoteric nonsense like the Refrigerator Perry GI Joe commercial, Inhistoric will cover just about anything that's vintage and classic about sports.

This site had previously existed as an independent blog for two years, and it garnered about as much traffic as a snowball in Antarctica. But those days are over, as Inhistoric is now a part of the biggest sports blog network on the web. Whoo!

I have to thank the people at SB Nation for giving me this opportunity. Blez, Chris Haines, Warren Schultheis, Ryan Gantz -- I can't thank you people enough for setting up and designing this thing. It looks sweet.

Also, in case you were wondering, Inhistoric is all one word. It is not "InHistoric," nor is it "In Historic." It is Inhistoric. So if you're going to link to or reference this site, make sure that it's Inhistoric. I dream of a day when I will be able to type in "Inhistoric" to Google, and Google won't spit out: "Did you mean In Historic?" No, damn it, I did not! (Just a pet peeve of mine)

Anyway, that's it for the introduction. Leave comments, upload images, write posts. Don't be shy, don't be a jerk. Just have fun reminiscing about the good 'ole days. Peace!