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rideguy.com was started as a personal website back in the late 1990's by secret.squirrel (nicknamed by Greg Maturo of Great American Shows). Originally we were hosted on a shared hosting service, with only a couple pages in the site, mostly documenting my personal involvement in the amusement industry over the years.

As time progressed, the site grew slowly into a small portal featuring many aspects of the amusement industry, although content was limited by my ability to maintain internet access throughout the operating seasons. Because of this, the site always suffered from lack of traffic and fresh content.

In the early 2000's, we took on hosting for the forums at Matt's Carnival Warehouse - this was a joint project between rideguy.com and MCW to further discussion and online presence for members of the amusement industry. The forum project was a raging success with now over 1500 members and thousands of topics and replies posted over the last several years. Since then, the forums have now moved back home to MCW's servers, and we have embarked on a new venture.

After we moved the forums back to MCW, we were left without a direction to go with the site. As time progressed, the need for an internet resource for showpeople everywhere became more and more evident. Owners needed access to technical data about equipment - vendors need a place to advertise and publicize their wares for our industry, and so on. The current venture with our site has blossomed into a splitting of rideguy.com into rideguy.com and the carnie social network - both sites now create a universal way for industry members to not only meet and greet (through our social network) but to also locate technical information from a variety of sources as well as useful other sections of the site still being developed.

Currently, we have over 10 major projects on our roadmap, not to mention many dozens of unfinished little areas here and on the social network. These sites are a living work in progress, somewhat like our industry itself. We hope you enjoy the sites, and please let us know how we can better our internet presence for both our members and our visitors!

Thanks again for visiting rideguy.com and the carnie social network!