Happy 10th Birthday to writecrow.org 🎉

Ten years ago this week, writecrow.org hatched onto the internet!

When founding Crowbird Dr. Bradley Dilger clicked “Publish” on March 23, 2016, he never knew how high the Crow (Corpus & Repository Of Writing) project would fly. And fly, it has. Our website has risen to new heights since that day, and we want to continue soaring with everyone who has supported us on this journey.

The fledgling writecrow.org home page from 2016, archived by the Wayback Machine

Thanks to past and present Crowbirds for their contributions to the website, especially:

Crow co-PI Dr. Aleksandra Swatek and Purdue undergraduate researcher Sarah Buwick, who redesigned the Crow website to its modern look and feel;

Anna Shura, who rebranded Crow and the website in 2022 to its current beautiful and accessible color palette;

All the Crow undergraduate and graduate researchers who have written web stories and helped us update pages.

If you are curious about recent developments of the website, check out my past article where I discussed the backend work I’ve been doing.

Happy 10th Birthday to writecrow.org!

The Crow Birthday design seen above was made by Jackie Hurlock!