The popular music resource site, Discogs turned 20 years old this week and the founders of the site are looking back at its history with a blog, a super cool infographic, and a reshare of their 15yerar anniversary video! Discogs.com’s domain name was registered on August 30, 2000, and Discogs itself was launched in November 2000 by programmer, DJ, and music fan Kevin Lewandowski originally intended to be a large database of electronic music. In addition to a great database of all genres of music (but also rock and metal), the site is used as a hub for distributors and collectors, sometimes acting as an online store for DIY record shops. Enjoy the Discogs story, and here’s to 20 more years at least!

https://blog.discogs.com/en/20-years-of-discogs-2020/?utm_source=relationship&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc-20-ann

“On November 1, Discogs turns 20 years old. I started this as a hobby project to let people edit discographies and create a definitive catalog of recorded music. I didn’t know it would come this far! Back then, the goal was only to catalog electronic music, but based on feedback we started to allow hip-hop, then rock, jazz, then everything.

Looking back on those 20 years, some of my best memories are:

The early days of working very closely with contributors in the forums.

All of the great music I’ve discovered by digging and exploring Discogs.

Hearing directly from people about how important Discogs is to them.

Visiting record shops and hearing people talk about Discogs or seeing it on their computers (I shop incognito).

It’s really incredible how far we’ve come. Discogs now has 13 million releases, 7 million artists, and almost 60 million things for sale from 150,000 sellers. And it’s the go-to resource for people that really care about music. None of this would be possible without all of you, whether you’re contributing to the Database, giving suggestions in the forums, or building up your Collections and Wantlists. Thank you, Discogs Community!!”

– Kevin Lewandowski, Founder and CEO