Nov 2000
Sweden's biggest community, overtaking Skunk
MMXI, November 2000: LunarStorm 274,000 unique visitors against Spray's Skunk at 223,000. The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet wants to make a LunarStorm Norway.
Skunk was the biggest, and then we were. None of us had any idea how big it would get.
- Dagens Nyheter (DN), Sweden's largest morning paper, November 2000: ”Its predecessor Stajlplejs was one of Europe's first web communities and has grown since 1996 to over 300,000 members.”
- December 2000: 313,000 unique visitors, 2.3 hours on average; number one on MediaMetrix seven months in a row.
- The Swedish advertising and media magazine Resumé, November 2000: Estrella wants to challenge Dobedo and LunarStorm.
- Internetguiden, November 2000, number 27: ”There is probably not a single secondary school pupil who doesn't know what Lunarstorm is.”
- Dala-Demokraten, November 2000: LunarStorm is a town where over 200,000 young people meet.
- Address changes in 2000: lunarstorm.com → se.lunarstorm.com (summer) → lunarstorm.se.
Sources: lunarworks.se, 20 February 2001