This month we celebrated a big number - 10 years
On 7 january 1998 petanque.org had it's first day on the internet. In those days virtually all domain names were available, but the .org ending was chosen because we where planning to build a user driven organisation - a site for ,and by petanque players.
Back then it was hard to make a web-site. Nothing was available that even resembles a CMS or a forum, all software had to be built from scratch. So we're quite unique - all the stuff that makes petanque.org tick is hand-made just for this site. Every single line of programming and every database table. We've never counted the hours, but it took more than a few nights..
In these 10 years the internet has evolved from a nice, small and friendly community to the worlds foremost commercial arena. But we try to stick to our principles: For players, by players.
We would like to thank everyone that has contributed over the years.
And please - keep the contributions coming. Without you we would not be here , virtually all content is user-contributed.
With luck we'll stick around to celebrate another 10 years in about , lets say, ten years?
We just got word of a new petanque-game, for all of those of you with a PC. It's called "petank party", and looks quite unique...
We have integrated petanque.org with yet another newcomer to the web, this time it is youtube. So please give us your ideas!
Here are some pics from the 2nd Johannesburg Open played at the Boulesdust piste at the Zoo Lake Sports Club in Johannesburg (see Google Pic). There were 10 doublets who played in 2 round robin leagues. The top 2 teams then played in the semi-finals. The final was won by Paul and Howie who beat Gerald and Bridget in a tense final that finished well after 8pm.
We have received word that we have supplied quite a lot of images to a story by the municipal Library in Lyon, France. And the story is worth a read!
Many years ago there was no way of getting your pictures online unless you knew someone with a homepage. Or you mailed them to petanque.org, and we'd put it on the web for you. But nowadays nobody does this thing anymore, there are thousands of ways to get your images online, and our pictures-section is about as dry as the sahara. So we have had to make some changes
Crazy petanque game soon availableYoutube joins petanque.orgLyon library - story on Boule lyonnaisePetanque.org integrates with flickrPetanque.org is 10 years old! Illegal Petanque ExposedA Petanque calendar for 2008Hot club petanqe and Le mondial la marseillaise a petanque 2007Big balls of steel and a tiny wooden onePeterhof Maier cup - play a petanque tournament in Russia!
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