Mi spiegate una cosa su Airliners.net?


QUI</u> trovi, in formato .pdf, l'articolo comparso qualche mese fa sulla rivista tedesca Aerointernational dove, oltre alla presentazione del meglio di a.net, venne tracciata anche la storia del sito, a partire dalla piccola stanza di Luleå, in Svezia, dove uno studente - Johan Lundgren - installò nel 1995 i primi servers.

Purtroppo l'articolo è in tedesco, ma in QUESTO</u> thread del forum di a.net, trovi la traduzione in inglese.

Mi permetto di copiarla qui di seguito:

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Like most big things in this world, Airliners.net also began very small. Johan Lundgren, a young I.T. student in the northern town of Luleå, Sweden, had a liking to aircraft, which he expressed in the form of a single website. There he collected, of which, in the middle of the 90’s, he found a substantial number on the under developed World Wide Web. During his military service, which interrupted his studying for a year in 1995, he worked continuously on his website, which was named “Pictures of Modern Airliners”. With the developing of the WWW, his website became established, and complete foreigner to the Internet Lundgren uploaded his own aircraft photos to his website. That soon took control, and with the section “Your Photos”, Lundgren finally gave photographers the opportunity to show the hundreds of photos, which been sent to him, on the website. In 1997 Lundgren renamed the website: Airliners.net was born, and a single server was set up in Lundgren’s dormitory in student accommodation. It wasn't long until Airliners.net hosted additional discussion forums, aircraft descriptions, aviation related articles, a virtual shop, a postcard service, and, and, and… One server became four, and the room where Lundgren lived, was filled with the hums of the computer, as the temperature climbed to a tropical climate. In the end someone offered to set up his computers in the university computer rooms, which is where they still stand today.

From what started as a hobby became a full time job. Lundgren not only looked after the hardware, but also the software. Airliners.net runs on Linux. His studying suffered, but the site grew, and prospered, and Lundgren needed help. Fortunately there were a substantial number of aviation enthusiasts, who were willing to offer their time and knowledge to Airliners.net. Today there are around 80 volunteers, who run different areas of the website, which included moderating the discussion forums, screening photos, editing the database, and without this assistance, the success Airliners.net would not be possible. Not only is the field of aviation important, but also Lundgren has to concentrate on surviving with the huge pile of jobs and materials.

As much as possible got sourced out - the virtual shop, ticket and hotel bookings, the print sales, the news section and, and, and... this helps to keep the costs low, forthermore is Lundgren still the only full-time worker of Airliners.net. Earnings are made with the ads, sales (I think they mean the shop) and with the membership fees.

First Class Members have admission to every part of the site without annoying ads, they can subscibe to the news service, read aviation articles, surfing the site or chatting with other members.

What is making Airliners.net so unique? Lundgren's answer is simple: "We are the biggest". And that in every aspect, approximately 100.000 people are visiting A.net every day. News from thousands of sources are available and over 10.000 photographers from all over the world - who finally found a forum to exchange photos, ideas and thoughts - are presenting their work.

But the screeners don't have mercy with every picture, approximately two-thirds of all pictures get rejected because the criterias are very strikt. The quality must be perfect or the motive has to be unique.

You can find almost everything on Airliners.net, no matter if you are searching for pictures of remains of an aircraft which crashed, the latest computer animation of a planned airport, or a picture of a real rare aircraft type.

The acceptance of pictures is rather restrictive but Airliners.net is open for everyone who wants to present his pictures on the site, no matter if you are professional photographer or an amateur, everyone is allowed to send photos.

Lundgren is still no photographer and still no computer scientist. Airliners.net don't let him enough time to study and he has to work a lot with computers anyway. He hopes to graduate in economics and in political science some day. And when the PPL holder needs a little bit distance from all the trouble, he is simply going up in the air in his spare time.
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Ciao ciao!:)
Chris
 
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