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Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?
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DealerRefresh is 19 years old! - where were you?
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Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?
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In May of 2005, I was the Director of Ecommerce at Checkered Flag living in Virginia Beach.
I was the cradle-to-grave "Internet Sales Manager" at Williamson Honda in Lincoln, NE. I carried three phones. My cordless office phone on one hip, my personal Razr in my pocket, and a Palm phone on the other hip that was tied to the phone number on all my AutoTrader and Cars.com listings. I'm totally getting cancer somewhere in that region soon SMH.
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Back in the day, I had left Bresee Chevrolet and moved to Sun Auto Group as marketing dir.
Here's the home page I inherited
https://web.archive.org/web/20050209124636/http://www.usedcarking.com/
I helped Homenet improve the platform so much, Jesse Biter, Homenet CEO gave me a dev team to build UsedCarKing from my photoshop mocks. (be nice, I'm not an artist!
https://web.archive.org/web/20110808060847/http://www.usedcarking.com/
Here's the home page I inherited
https://web.archive.org/web/20050209124636/http://www.usedcarking.com/
I helped Homenet improve the platform so much, Jesse Biter, Homenet CEO gave me a dev team to build UsedCarKing from my photoshop mocks. (be nice, I'm not an artist!
https://web.archive.org/web/20110808060847/http://www.usedcarking.com/
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haha, alex, I was hunting thru Archive.org to find CF's "buy your car in your PJ's" and found this old school avatar
https://web.archive.org/web/20060713150122/http://www.checkeredflag.com/
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Wow! Our DealerOn site prior to moving to Dealer.com (when the pajamas stuff came out). This was the time when you were not cool unless you had a talking lady on your website
We have two salespeople that are the same age as DealerRefresh...
Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?
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I was in middle school...
Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?
*working at my family's car lot in the summers though!
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My first automotive website circa 2003, at the ripe age of 13 years old.
Created in Adobe Dreamweaver with "live" inventory from a csv inventory file managed in Microsoft Excel.
Created in Adobe Dreamweaver with "live" inventory from a csv inventory file managed in Microsoft Excel.
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Oddly enough, I'm back at the dealership I was at when I started DealerRefresh.
19 YEARS!! Wow.
19 YEARS!! Wow.
✨ AI Highlights
Members of the DealerRefresh community celebrate the forum's 19th birthday by sharing where they were working in 2005 and reflecting on how automotive digital marketing has evolved—from clunky early website designs and multiple phones to modern platforms. The thread showcases nostalgia for the early internet era in auto retail, with participants sharing screenshots of their old dealership websites and recounting their roles as pioneers in automotive ecommerce. The underlying insight is that DealerRefresh has been a consistent gathering place for industry professionals through significant technological change, with many members having grown their careers alongside the platform.
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