“Good News on the Internet” Jehovah’s Witnesses Mark 25 Years on the World Wide Web

[felito]

“Good News on the Internet”

Jehovah’s Witnesses Mark 25 Years on the World Wide Web

 

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/Good-News-on-the-Internet/

[Dustparticle]

It’s about 25 years anniversary of JW.org https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/Good-News-on-the-Internet/

Edited August 17, 2022 by Dustparticle

[MullumMiss]

12 minutes ago, felito said:

“Good News on the Internet”

Jehovah’s Witnesses Mark 25 Years on the World Wide Web

 

https://www.jw.org/en/news/jw/region/global/Good-News-on-the-Internet/

When I saw this I was surprised at the 25 years........how time flies

[jwhess]

The picture is there in the upper left corner.  Do we all remember our first website in 1997>  I have the  picture below.

 

 

[Sheep]

27 minutes ago, jwhess said:

Oh yes, I remember it like it was yesterday! I was new at computers in those days, having only bought my first Windows PC a couple of years earlier. I more-or-less learned how to click on links by using watchtower.org!

[Old Guy]

Take a nostalgic visit to the website through the Wayback Machine: pages from 1996 to 2016 are available

https://web.archive.org/web/20030201233515/http://www.watchtower.org/

[Sheep]

2 minutes ago, Old Guy said:

Take a nostalgic visit to the website through the Wayback Machine: pages from 1996 to 2016 are available

https://web.archive.org/web/20030201233515/http://www.watchtower.org/

If I'm counting right, I think we had an impressive 19 languages available at that time! (We've grown a lot since then.)

[Dustparticle]

I think Felix, Linda and I, post this at the same time. Sorry slow pokers, we were on the ball. Maybe next time.

[Doak]

I always thought that our site was created between the years 2000 and 2010, closer to the 2010s. I don't remember any brothers talking about the site before that, I only heard about the "Publications Library" on the CD-ROM and little else. Perhaps at the time there was not yet the Portuguese language on the site or the internet was not used much in Portugal. Anyway, I'm sure that most Portuguese brothers didn't know about the site at that time.

[Michał]

I used to have jw-media.org as my starting site

[Hinata]

8 hours ago, Doak said:

I always thought that our site was created between the years 2000 and 2010, closer to the 2010s. I don't remember any brothers talking about the site before that, I only heard about the "Publications Library" on the CD-ROM and little else. Perhaps at the time there was not yet the Portuguese language on the site or the internet was not used much in Portugal. Anyway, I'm sure that most Portuguese brothers didn't know about the site at that time.

 

It’s same here too. Even though our website (www.watchtower.org) was created 25 years ago, until around 2010s, we did not really use internet a lot, not in the ministry nor in the theocratic meetings.

 

I think as for here, it’s really around mid-2010s that we really started going digital. The invention of JW Library in 2014 aided in this. 10 years ago no one could imagine dozens of people flicking through their phones during the meetings.

 

[jwhess]

Here is the back page of the "Listen to God" brochure from early 2011.  I have another copy from the same year with JW>ORG on it.

 

So I would assume this is one of the last publications we printed with Watchtower.org on the cover.
 

[dove]

Wasn't this brochure published in more copies than any other of the brochures, or was it the Listen to God and Live Forever one. I can't remember which it was

[Parale]

1 hour ago, jwhess said:

Here is the back page of the "Listen to God" brochure from early 2011.  I have another copy from the same year with JW>ORG on it.

 

So I would assume this is one of the last publications we printed with Watchtower.org on the cover.

FWIW the OP article link says: "In 2005, jw.org came online and, in time, began to be used for downloads of selected publications and audio recordings. In August 2012, all three websites were consolidated into a redesigned jw.org"

 

Thus, although strictly a 'magazine', rather than a 'publication', the last actual 'watchtower.org' link I can see is from...

 

Awake! August 2012, page 23

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102012291#h=35

 

 

 

 

 

[Parale]

3 hours ago, Dove said:

Wasn't this brochure published in more copies than any other of the brochures, or was it the Listen to God and Live Forever one. I can't remember which it was

What do you mean by 'published'? It would appear that 'Enjoy Life Forver' will became the most translated brochure, but 'What Does God Require of Us?' is the most printed brochure?

 

Unless anyone knows anything else?.... this is what I found....

 

Listen to God... More than 42 million copies have been produced in over 400 languages (as of 'current')
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/publishing/global-printing/

 

Listen to God is available in 610 languages
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/500400100

 

What Does God Require of Us? was over 200 million copies in 267 languages (as of '2004')

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/302004001#h=7

 

Approval was given to translate the Enjoy Life Forever! book into more than 700 languages! (as of 'July 2022' - I presume the 'paired' brochure would be published in the same amount of languages?)

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2022481#h=13

 

(For some context, in the year 2004, the WT was printing 25.5 million copies of each 32-page Watchtower magazine in 148 languages.)

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by Parale

[dove]

2 hours ago, Parale said:

What do you mean by 'published'? It would appear that 'Enjoy Life Forver' will became the most translated brochure, but 'What Does God Require of Us?' is the most printed brochure?

 

Unless anyone knows anything else?.... this is what I found....

 

Listen to God... More than 42 million copies have been produced in over 400 languages (as of 'current')
https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/publishing/global-printing/

 

Listen to God is available in 610 languages
https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/500400100

 

What Does God Require of Us? was over 200 million copies in 267 languages (as of '2004')

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/302004001#h=7

 

Approval was given to translate the Enjoy Life Forever! book into more than 700 languages! (as of 'July 2022' - I presume the 'paired' brochure would be published in the same amount of languages?)

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2022481#h=13

 

(For some context, in the year 2004, the WT was printing 25.5 million copies of each 32-page Watchtower magazine in 148 languages.)

 

 

 

Published=Printed. Not translated but printed. 

Not talking about the Require brochure.

Maybe Brother Hess can sort out what I said..🙂

Edited August 19, 2022 by Dove

[pnutts]

Just to throw a curve at you. The Bible came on floppy disks in the 90s.

[Karlo Esteban]

Did anyone noticed the pop-up "New" on the article "What does the Bible say about Daniel?"

Has anyone seen this feature on the website? Or did they just edited this to the picture? If you'll click the picture on the website, you'll see that the "New" pop-up disappeared.

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[Hinata]

4 hours ago, Dove said:

Published=Printed. Not translated but printed. 

Not talking about the Require brochure.

Maybe Brother Hess can sort out what I said..🙂

 

The publication What Does the Bible Really Teach? is our most published book at more than 230,000,000 copies distributed worldwide. Our next most published book is the Truth That Leads to Eternal Life, at more than 107,000,000 copies in 120 languages by 1982.

 

The brochure Listen to God and Live Forever is technically our most translated work at more than 600 languages. But that brochure is almost illustration only. If we want to count an actual book with full of texts, our most translated book is (again) What Does the Bible Really Teach? at more than 360 languages.

 

[dove]

9 hours ago, Hinata said:

 

The publication What Does the Bible Really Teach? is our most published book at more than 230,000,000 copies distributed worldwide. Our next most published book is the Truth That Leads to Eternal Life, at more than 107,000,000 copies in 120 languages by 1982.

 

The brochure Listen to God and Live Forever is technically our most translated work at more than 600 languages. But that brochure is almost illustration only. If we want to count an actual book with full of texts, our most translated book is (again) What Does the Bible Really Teach? at more than 360 languages.

 

I was referring only to brochures, not books. But maybe now that will change due to more recent brochures such as Live Forever

[Sheep]

On 8/18/2022 at 4:51 PM, Parale said:

FWIW the OP article link says: "In 2005, jw.org came online and, in time, began to be used for downloads of selected publications and audio recordings. In August 2012, all three websites were consolidated into a redesigned jw.org"

 

Thus, although strictly a 'magazine', rather than a 'publication', the last actual 'watchtower.org' link I can see is from...

 

Awake! August 2012, page 23

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102012291#h=35

Funny. I'm looking at the Awake bound volume for 2012, and that August issue says jw.org on the back page. The organization was printing watchtower.org on the back page up until the May 2012 issue, and then June started with jw.org. It was the same with the Watchtower magazine.

[jwhess]

On 8/18/2022 at 4:51 PM, Parale said:

FWIW the OP article link says: "In 2005, jw.org came online and, in time, began to be used for downloads of selected publications and audio recordings. In August 2012, all three websites were consolidated into a redesigned jw.org"

 

Thus, although strictly a 'magazine', rather than a 'publication', the last actual 'watchtower.org' link I can see is from...

 

Awake! August 2012, page 23

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102012291#h=35

 

 

 

 

 

maybe it depended on where it was printed.  My May 2012 copy shows "Watchtower.org" but my June 2012 copy shows "JW.ORG".

 

 

[Parale]

10 hours ago, jwhess said:

maybe it depended on where it was printed.  My May 2012 copy shows "Watchtower.org" but my June 2012 copy shows "JW.ORG".

That appears to match up with what is on the jw.org website.....

 

https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/?contentLanguageFilter=en&pubFilter=g&yearFilter=2012

 

Interesting. The last link I could find in a publication was from August 2012.... the article would have been written how many months before it was printed?? so perhaps they just forgot to update the watchtower.org link before they printed it? or simply there was a couple of months overlap with the transfer to the new domain? Basically jw.org has been used as the main website/domain for the last 10 years.

Edited August 20, 2022 by Parale