Gapers Block is Turning 5

Gapers Block, one of the pioneers group newsblogging and one of the first efforts at Chicago-based internet citizen journalism, turns five years old this month and they’re throwing a party to celebrate.

The site was founded by Andrew Huff and Naz Hamid and bills itself as “an antidote to all those sites infatuated with the coasts.”

Merge is the news feed, Slowdown chronicles the city’s events, daily columns show up in Airbags, a daily Flickr photo gets posted to Rearview, and people ponder the mysteries of the universe while talking with their neighbors in Fuel. Along with the main sections, they have the seperate blogs A/C, Book Club, Drive Thru, Tailgate, and Transmission devoted to covering the city’s Arts, Literary, Culinary, Sports, and Music scenes respectively.

Since we think its one of the cleanest designs on the web, we thought we’d take a trip on the Wayback Machine and show you what it looked like on May 7th, 2003: Here.

The Gapers Block 5th Anniversary Party will be at the Hideout (1354 W. Wabansia) on May 30th at 9pm. Bossa Saravah, the Revelettes go-go troupe, DJ Arpad and DJ James Vane will all be there. For more info head over to GB.

Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 7:02 pm | Filed in Front Page. Comments Feed

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