Three years and two days ago, HBO commissioned a pilot for their television adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series (the show didn’t have a title yet). A couple days later, I decided to start a blog to follow the latest news about the show. And now, exactly three years and 1,000 posts later, we’re still going strong! The show has turned into a huge hit with audiences and critics alike and it doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon. And neither will we!
I want to thank Fire and Blood and Hear Me Roar for all their hard work in helping me keep this site updated. You guys do a fantastic job. And a thank you to HBO for treating us as a legit news site, on par with Entertainment Weekly or The Hollywood Reporter, by giving us screeners and exclusives and other neat perks. It was very unexpected, but very appreciated. And a big thanks to George R. R. Martin for not only linking to us on his blog and web site, but even including us in his dedication of A Dance with Dragons. Very flattering, to be listed amongst those great ASOIAF fans and sites. But most of all, thanks to you guys, the readers and commenters, for making this site as great a community as it is. Yeah, we have our moments of nitpicking and intense debate over trivial matters, but for the most part, I feel we are a very positive community that is united by a common theme: we love Game of Thrones.
So here is to another year of Thrones news and rumors!
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Happy birthday, WiCnet! :D
Steve the PirateQuote Reply
Happy Birthday, WiC.net! Winter, you da man, thanks for starting this great website. I’m happy and honoured to be part of it.
Some numbers: in its first year, the website published 200 posts, followed by 300 in the second. The third year, when the first season aired, resulted in staggering 500 posts.
Hear Me RoarQuote Reply
Happy birthday!
And THANK YOU (Fabio and HmR inculded ;) for everything!
You guys rock!
Let s celebrate…
The RabbitQuote Reply
Congratulations!
MagnusQuote Reply
Congratulations! And also, my thanks! I’ve been lurking here since Christmas 2008, if I remember correctly, when I first stumpled upon this site. I used to check it once in a while, since there really wasn’t many posts back then… but somehow I find mysef here several times a day nowadays.
Keep up the good work!
(I wonder if HBO has got some presents for you.. *cough*)
KarikkiQuote Reply
Baby is three! Congrats and thanks all for the hard work!! I’ve been following for less than a year but this site is definitely a fully paid up corner of my social life now!
ThremnirQuote Reply
Happy Birthday!!
JojiQuote Reply
After all this time building up the series, i hope HBO carry on making them. I bought Game of Thrones after the First Episode on Sky Atlantic. I’m Currently on Feast for Crows. Im so unbelievably hooked on A Song of Ice and Fire!! Happy Birthday WiC.Net!!!
Harry The HeirQuote Reply
Happy birthday indeed!
KnurkQuote Reply
Congrats guys! I’ve been lurking here since the very first post and commenting every once in a while anonymously. I hope you guys keep up the great work for at least another decade!!!
G_LeeQuote Reply
Happy birthday and thank you so much for all the hard work, I love coming over here. :)
LisaQuote Reply
Congrats! I think some celebratory drinking is in order! :D
EvilPicnicQuote Reply
HAPPY B DAY!!
thanks for introducing me to a new world to explore!
We Do Not SowQuote Reply
So I’ve been a WiC regular for 3 years now? Wow!
Heres to at least.. uh… 6 years more! Cheers!
sjweningsQuote Reply
Congratulations!
Peter RuttenQuote Reply
Happy Birthday!
Michelle PeeplesQuote Reply
You guys are wonderful! Thanks so much for the care and feeding of all us little direwolf pups. Congrats!!!
Janeh227Quote Reply
Happybirthdaywhereisthecake?
spacechampionQuote Reply
Forgot to say ‘thank you’! So there it was!
G_LeeQuote Reply
Happy birthday WIC.net! I’d get you some cake, but I heard there’s a cakesguard lurking around. :/ Not going to mess with that…
The InstrumentalistQuote Reply
Congratulations!
Matthijs IdemaQuote Reply
Happy birthday!
*whisky* Here’s to hopefully many more good years! :)
ShinyteapotQuote Reply
Congratulations WIC-team!!!
durandalQuote Reply
thanks to everyone who keeps this site going, it’s so great :)
freyar_88Quote Reply
congrats guys.
You’re amazing! :)
Elena AmiciQuote Reply
When you get a shout-out in ADWD, you know you’ve made it. ;-)
Congrats!
Varamyr FourskinsQuote Reply
Happy Birthday WiC.net! hard to believe it’s been 3 years now.
John-Michael LelievreQuote Reply
Thanks for suppoprting our bottoms over such a long time!
many more years to come!
BeneQuote Reply
Happy Birthday! And thnaks for giving us a home!
HirondelleQuote Reply
:-)
TJQuote Reply
Good for you found you guys a couple months ago
Keep up the great work
May GOT last 20 years and spend $200 million dollars
Nimble DickQuote Reply
Congrats WiC! I’ve been following this space since day 1 and it’s been a great ride. Keep up the great work!
furreverQuote Reply
Been following for almost two years and you are still my NUMBER ONE site GoT-wise :) Keep up the excellent work :)
AndrijaQuote Reply
Elena Amici,
I don’t know what’s the problem with my facebook account. STUPID Internet.
PS: Completely OT: I’m sure I’m not the first one to say this, but I just read online that KH was cast as King Artur in that Artur&Lancelot movie. http://blastr.com/2011/11/games-of-thrones-jon-snow.php
Elena AmiciQuote Reply
Happy birthday :) You do and have done a great job.
kgQuote Reply
Happy birthday and here’s to at least 5 more :)
Alexander DubrovskyQuote Reply
Feliz cumpleaños! En español. In spanish
Zorionak zure urtebetetzean! Euskeraz. In basque
Happy birthday!
ikertzekeQuote Reply
Happy Birthday, WiC.net. Thanks for giving me a venue for discussing the books and TV series. Before the series aired, I remember the excitement when we got little hints about casting, the surges in site visits when a promotional trailer or official pictures were released, racking my brain trying to solve the puzzles and games HBO created for us as we counted down the days to the TV show, and when the show finally aired the gates and the bottom supporting.
When A Dance with Dragons came out it was the first time I was reading the book at the same time as its release, so it was so much fun getting to read impressions and speculate about the meaning of it all.
Before the series came out I did not have anyone to discuss the series with; now I check the website every day curious to know what’s new in the world of Ice and Fire.
So thanks again for all your hard work and creating this space for fans new and old. I can’t wait for season 2 and the remaining books. Here’s to many more years.
DreamlifeQuote Reply
This just came in via Myles McNutt on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/#!/Memles
HBO will show first In production promo for GOT – tomorrow night before Boardwalk Empire!
(new characters footage included !!!)
Winter could not ask for better birthday present!
The RabbitQuote Reply
Thanks for everything you guys do. The fan community would not be the same without you.
Always support the bottom!
HollyoakQuote Reply
Feliz Cumple! Happy Birthday WiCnet! Has it really been three years! How time flies.
I started following you when you posted Sean Bean would be cast in Game of Thrones and since then I’ve followed you, read 4 of the books – and am now on the 5th! Now looking forward to Season 2!
You all do a marvelous job for all of us! Thank you.
FaboamantoQuote Reply
The Rabbit,
Good work Rabbit…thanks. Hopefully the trailer will be more than a quick teaser. Can`t wait.
Respect WiC., Three years already………….time flys.
Two FeathersQuote Reply
Congrats WiC! Three years now and I check in every day for all the latest news (though I’m not much of a poster). :)
MelarraQuote Reply
Congratulations, WiC and the team.
I have been lurking since the first series was greenlighted, posting occasionally.
This was the first and best aSoIaF internet site I visited. Westeros is great for when a new book is published, but for GoT I return here again and again, liking the posting format better.
You guys should feel very proud of the feats you have achieved so far.
I, for one, thank you from the heart of my bottom for everything you do, and respectfully request that you please, please keep on keeping on…
Porcupine TreeQuote Reply
Happy Birthday WiCnet! And kudos to you all, Winter, FaB, and Hear Me Roar and all you regular posters for making this site required reading for all ASoIaF fans! Heartfelt thanks from a long-time lurker and fan!
uno0Quote Reply
Happy Birthday, and thank you for all your enthusiasm that’s been poured into this site. Without which I would have gone under in the months leading into season one, and I probably never would have gone to TitanCon either.
Johan SporreQuote Reply
Happy Birthday WiCNet!
LangkardQuote Reply
Happy Birthday, WiC.net ! It’s a great site .
And we all get to share the prezzie tomorrow night. Woo-hoo !
Down the hatch and support the bottom !
ObsidianQuote Reply
My children have decided to separate my life into two distinct eras – before and after I discovered WiC.net – BWiC and AWiC -thanks for all the great times and many more to come!
kQuote Reply
Congrats from Germany, you are the first page I check every morning ( used to be TORN, which is now second;))… Keep up the great work
Chris77Quote Reply
It’s only been 3 years?
Well, better luck next year.
Epic knows nothingQuote Reply
Happy Birthday WiCnet! Thanks for all you do! I come here religiously now just for the news and all the other good stuff!
HildaQuote Reply
Happy Birthday, WIC!
I remember reading the very first post (I was a little skeptical of whether the site would catch on).
I’ve been reading for three years, and posting for a little over 2 years (I started posting in July of 2009, when the Sean Bean news was announced).
Thanks for all the hard work!
LexQuote Reply
Congrats and Happy Birthday! May the old gods and the new (and what the hell, Rh’llor, too) bless you on this day!
Thanks for all the hard work, look forward to many more years to come!
the goatQuote Reply
Happy Birthday. Thank you guys for all your hard works and reader friendly layout. Here to 9 more years of GoT news (9 seasons, 8 ASoIaF books).
SugarVampireQuote Reply
It’s just been an honor. Pure and simple.
So how many more years you guys figure we’ll be here? Ten more years? Rabbit might be old enough to drink by then.
Fire And BloodQuote Reply
I remember as if it were yesterday.
Happy Birthday.
JennyQuote Reply
WiCNet is the greatest!
It is known
Happy Birthday and keep up the good work
UdiQuote Reply
It’s been a fun three years fellas. Lets keep it going.
dizzy_34Quote Reply
It has been a great 3 yrs…congrats…
Coltaine777Quote Reply
Congrats to the WIC team!! You people are awesome! Thanks for my daily ‘fix’ for GOT. Dunno what I’d do without ya!………
mimiQuote Reply
happy bday wic :) been here for about 2 and a half years
Damryn of DorneQuote Reply
Happy bday. I’ve been around since the start, mainly as a lurker though. I wish you continued success!
Tyler L. MetcalfeQuote Reply
Just wanted to say – I found this site about two weeks after it launched and have followed ever since. For all the script breakdowns, for all the amazing casting guess ingenuity, for all the great reporting on this series:
Thank you.
I remember the days of discussions about how Boardwalk Empire was a bad thing for Game of Thrones – we weren’t even sure the show would get picked up, but I think the fan support demonstrated by your site and the other ASOIAF pages around the web were instrumental in forcing the decision. You guys helped to show the brass at HBO that there was not only a large built-in fandom, but a potential for reaching a huge audience. Thank you, thank you, thank you WIC.net! You’ve done a great job over the last few years. Keep it up!
molemanQuote Reply
Congratulations!
Thank you guys for bringing GoT into my vains.
GrzebykKQuote Reply
Happy birthday WiCnet and congratulations, keep up the good work. :)
Daniel WesterlundQuote Reply
Happy Birthday from Spain! Felicidades desde España!
JavierQuote Reply
It really doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. So much awesome during that time. :)
digQuote Reply
Well congratulations – where would we all have been without you??!!
Here’s to another 3 years …and then another….and then…
silverjaimeQuote Reply
Congratulations WiC! I can’t believe it’s been three years.
PeltastQuote Reply
Happy Birthday WiCnet…lets hope for more to come!
loco73Quote Reply
Congratulations!!! I started reading the books when the series came out. The things I most appreciate about this website are that it’s not intimidating at all for newbies, and that the friendly community is relatively careful about spoilers. Keep up the great work!
Chai_latteQuote Reply