Bored Skaters:About

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BoredSkaters was originally set up by Vish Vishvanath on 1 January 2001 to be used as a support website for the renamed BettyBlade, the LondonSkate. After a pretty damn successful summer in 2000 skating on the pavement, the gang dragged in some more help in the form of Shaun Hunter and Mandy Hall, and decided to stop skating on the pavement. The skate scene in London was becoming bigger as more of the random people who simply owned a pair of skates decided to actually talk to each other and hang out.

BoredSkaters.com version 1 was originally a story site where anyone who wanted to could submit their stories, reviews and rants. They were posted online, approved by Vish and then put live on the site. Easy.

After a while of this, BoredSkaters was altered to include the first skating forum in London, and remained a place where nothing was censored and no rules were enforced. Around 2004, BoredSkaters simply became a link to Vish's personal site while he figured out new ideas for it.

And in 2006, Vish rang Steve from Serpentine Road to try and resurrect some of the many ideas they had previously discussed, both being, erm, bored, with the state of skating websites. Much of Steve's original material from Serpentine Road had vanished when the site changed to a forum, and Vish was quite keen to track it down, extend it, and get it online again.

Originally, Vish wanted to create a simply storytelling site, based on people, places and events, but after some chat and thought, BoredSkaters was altered to a wiki format, allowing Steve and Vish (and everyone else) the flexibility to put up whatever content they wanted. And basically, they wanted it all. Starting with the A-Z of skaters and going on from that.