Tonight while I was updating and fixing the website, I realised that there isn’t an ‘About’ page for the site. How will people know what this website’s about without a one paragraph explanation followed with an inspiring but pointless mission statement!? For some reason it’s just not in my nature to follow the norm. I could’ve just written the one paragraph and be done with it. But no~ I decided to write a whole blog series on the history of Breadcrumbs. So enjoy!
The Chat Thread
Breadcrumbs was created mid to late June 2010 through the inspiration of a Facebook message chat by me and a few friends in 2009. Before Facebook Groups were around there weren’t much options to discuss privately between multiple friends apart from sending mass messages back and forth. Originally the messages were simply an efficient way to plan gatherings and movie nights without the ‘public’ friends inviting themselves by guilting us into inviting them.. such as the well-known “where’s my invite??? jks jks 
” or “have fun! I’ll be doing nothing tonight..!”
Late 2010 I had planned a trip overseas for little over 2 months. It was destined that me and my movie loving friends will be apart during the momentous historic occasion of the release of Avatar. The hype and the anticipation during the second half of 2009 was such a time to remember..! To think I won’t be able to share the experience with them was a bit upsetting. So through our Facebook chat thread I asked everyone to submit each a movie review on Avatar so to share the taste of our own experiences. Our now head writer Rowan was the first and now come to think of it, the only person who submitted a review on the thread. A gigantically long speel on his love towards the movie, cinema and technology. The article was a fun and brilliant read, and a review that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Something about having a blue boner for James Cameron really uplifted the mood of the piece.
The article reminded us that Rowan all along, had the talent to write (we forgot that he wrote a couple of scripts in film school…) and that it should be shared. Soon after the idea of making a website for us all to contribute and share ideas to the masses was born. I wanted exactly what and how we talked in that Facebook chat thread to be a website. Of course the day and age of social media and blogging it made sharing ideas all the more easier and accessible, but I wanted an original and unique website damnit! Then I remembered website cost money and effort… So we started with a WordPress blog to see if we can manage. So without consulting ideas for names, I came up with Breadcrumbs and built the blog up and fed it to my friends.
To be continued…
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