The Beginning
Written By Courtney Smith
When it comes to The Green Day Authority, most people don't realize that the site was born from an extension of a personal website. When I was 13 years old (the year was 1995), I got my first computer and I immediately became interested in websites and how they worked. I taught myself HTML and was amazed at the fact that people all over the world could see what I wrote. The first website I had ever created was for an actor, Brad Renfro (may he RIP). It became one of the biggest sites for the actor at the time, but eventually, I got tired of it and gave it away. Then I started a personal site, about me and a place to store my photos. I added pages for my favorite bands at the time, Bush, the Smashing Pumpkins, and of course, Green Day. I had been a Green Day fan since 1994. Of course, shortly after, Green Day had taken over the entire site. It became Courtney's Green Day Pages, because, I don't know, it was the cool thing to name websites like that back in the 90's.
In the summer of 2000, Minority was released as a single, well before Warning's October release. I was in love with the song, and it had been awhile since we had a new Green Day song. At the time I was in college, but it was a summer semester, and I didn't have much to do. I changed the name of my Green Day page to The Green Day Minority. The site began to gain popularity, but that didn't come without criticism. A lot of other Green Day websites were reviewing my site and giving it bad reviews. But that didn't stop the visitors from coming, or from me desperately wanting to prove the haters wrong. Eventually, the site grew large and a lot for me to handle on my own, so I hired a co-webmaster, named Matt to help out (a different Matt than our current developer).
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Written By Courtney Smith
When it comes to The Green Day Authority, most people don't realize that the site was born from an extension of a personal website. When I was 13 years old (the year was 1995), I got my first computer and I immediately became interested in websites and how they worked. I taught myself HTML and was amazed at the fact that people all over the world could see what I wrote. The first website I had ever created was for an actor, Brad Renfro (may he RIP). It became one of the biggest sites for the actor at the time, but eventually, I got tired of it and gave it away. Then I started a personal site, about me and a place to store my photos. I added pages for my favorite bands at the time, Bush, the Smashing Pumpkins, and of course, Green Day. I had been a Green Day fan since 1994. Of course, shortly after, Green Day had taken over the entire site. It became Courtney's Green Day Pages, because, I don't know, it was the cool thing to name websites like that back in the 90's. In the summer of 2000, Minority was released as a single, well before Warning's October release. I was in love with the song, and it had been awhile since we had a new Green Day song. At the time I was in college, but it was a summer semester, and I didn't have much to do. I changed the name of my Green Day page to The Green Day Minority. The site began to gain popularity, but that didn't come without criticism. A lot of other Green Day websites were reviewing my site and giving it bad reviews. But that didn't stop the visitors from coming, or from me desperately wanting to prove the haters wrong. Eventually, the site grew large and a lot for me to handle on my own, so I hired a co-webmaster, named Matt to help out (a different Matt than our current developer).
click here to read the entire editorial about GDA's history