History of TintDude

[Tint Eastwood]

Just wondering how this all came to be?

From what I gather it's been around since around 03, so almost 10 years old and still going strong. A few active members appear to have been here almost from the start. Be cool to know how/why people found this place and how it has evolved.

[Tint Eastwood]

Be cool if TD weighed in too

[coast2coasttinting]

that would make for a good read.

[TintWizard]

I would have been on earlier if it hadn't of been for a very poor quality computer I owned at the time that wouldn't let me browse or join.

[Tint Eastwood]

I found it in 09 but didn't join til 10. Had heard about it from another tinter who asked if I was part of the tintdude forum....had no idea what he was talking about. But when I started doing auto I was doing some research and obviously came across this place. So much information I was hooked. Without a doubt the best resource I've found and a good bunch of people from all walks. No reason for me to look any further.

[Tint Eastwood]

I was told about it from the guy I worked for when I first got to florida . I wanna say that was 99 ...

99? Wow

[painted600rr]

I can only imagine how fugged up the layout was in 99'

[EXISTENCE]

this is what is looked like in 2000.

http://web.archive.org/web/200012042105/http://www.tintdude.com/

[Tint Eastwood]

this is what is looked like in 2000.

http://web.archive.org/web/200012042105/http://www.tintdude.com/

Ha! Cool. Thanks.

[TintDude]

It started when Shay and I bought a WebTV. There was a free site thing that came with it, "tintman" was already taken, so I signed up "tintdude", and put together a page that invited people to email me if they had questions about tinting.

Some of the questions were asked very often, so I put up pages for those answers and it started growing from there. I got very good search engine positions (it was super easy back then) and started getting a lot of traffic. So I registered a domain in oct 99.

Used several forum sites until transitioning to one on the domain in 03.