One thing that surprises a lot of people is just how little thought went into the start of TLO. Once we got the idea, we poured our hearts and souls into it and it consumed our every waking moment (and, for one of us, that continues to this day), but the blog from the beginning was started by three guys who had never met that just liked writing about Oklahoma and who said "Let's start a blog about Oklahoma!"
The fun part about this ten-year retrospective project for me has been going back and reading old emails from when we were conceiving of the site. We were three people who didn't know each other, trying to work together to create something people might enjoy. We didn't know each other's personalities or views on politics or views on the world or even our favorite weatherman. It was a strange dynamic.