1 Month of the Sound's World Times!

1 month ago, the first issue of the Sound's World Times was published. I had been wanting to kickstart the Times since early to mid-January, and I figured that publishing an article soon after the server's Bing Bong craze would be a great time to start. At the time, it was a smaller newspaper with only 2-3 issues. However, just one month later, the Times has transformed into a media empire with 3-4 page issues, a website, 2 weekly recurring columns (Upcoming SW Events and Adam Moments), a community-written articles section, and a slowly-growing catalog of special articles. How did we get here?

For the first few issues, the papers were simplistic. They covered a few key server events and weren't too large. In our second issue, we dropped our first weekly recurring column: Adam Moments, where silly, insane, and worrying quotes from Adam were showcased. However, on February 16, just after our third issue, the referendum finally dropped. Some called the newspaper the "Bing Bong Times," as that was the name originally advertised during the Bing Bong craze, while many had come to know and love the Sound's World Times moniker I had returned to once the Bing Bong craze faded. The referendum that put this dilemma to bed finally made it to the top of the poll queue, and the Sound's World Times won out. (Click here to learn all about The Referendum).

The next day on February 17, with our name secured, I bought the soundsworldtimes.com domain. Over the past weekend I had been setting up a Google Site that would house all our issues and more, and it was completed just after I bought the domain for it. Linking the Google Site up to the domain was the moment that the Sound's World Times started to become a media empire. Our first special article was also published that day, all about The Referendum.

As you can infer, the fourth issue that came out on February 20 was absolutely PACKED. That was our biggest issue to date at 3 pages, and it was also the first issue to debut a "Sound's World Says" section where community-written articles can be displayed (with an entire rulebook on how community-written articles work published as well). It also debuted our second weekly reoccurring column (not counting Sound's World Says): Upcoming SW Events, where upcoming server events are displayed, showing the date, title, and host.

Ever since then, the Sound's World Times has been trucking along! While our fifth issue was relatively quiet, a special article dropped the week after (February 27) on my signature hot cocoa recipe, and the week after that (March 6), Sound's World had a lot of big news, warranting our first-ever 4-page issue!

It is crazy how far the Sound's World Times has gone in just a month. Thank you to everyone who has read the Sound's World Times; I truly appreciate your support! Happy anniversary to the Sound's World Times, and I'm super excited to see where this newspaper goes in the future! :D