IconBazaar.com Randy Ralph's web-based graphics
Title
IPRASS.COM
Description
IconBAZAAR began its life in 1993 as a small collection of web-based graphics compiled by Randy D. Ralph for use by the academic community at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). For a time, the site was virtually hosted on a shared UNIX server at UNCG, along with numerous faculty and student web sites. About one year later, the collection had become so popular that it consumed the largest share of the bandwidth among the web pages hosted on the UNCG servers and it was closed to outside Internet traffic.
In early 1994 the site was moved to a commercial web server hosted by InfiNet in Norfolk, Virginia and was given the name, "Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar." At this point, the site was still little more than a personal web site aimed at providing graphics to students and teachers. However, more and more people began to need graphics to build their own web sites on the Internet, and since Randy's Icon and Image Bazaar was among the first collections of quality graphics on the web, traffic on the site began to steadily increase.
Bandwidth again became an issue, this time due to the prohibitive cost, and Randy's Image and Icon Bazaar was moved again to a local ISP, NetUnlimited, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with its own new domain name, "www.iconbazaar.com." Shortly thereafter, the site was renamed "IconBAZAAR" and went fully commercial in mid 1994. Every commercial web site needs a good, steady source of revenue to continue growth and maintain operations, so in 1996, IconBAZAAR contracted with Stratapult Studios to place advertising on the IconBAZAAR web site. That year, traffic on the web site rapidly increased from approximately 50,000 impressions per month in February, 1996 to more than 2.5 million impressions per month in December, 1996...an increase of more than 4,000%! This phenomenal growth leveled-off at approximately 2.7 million impressions per month in early 1997, but the site maintained a healthy expansion rate of around 14% per month.
Languages
English
Contact
- IconBAZAAR
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- Clemmons NC
- United States 27012-7258
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- (336) 764-8066
Additional Information
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External Links
- Alexa: IconBazaar.com
