[#DuolingoForumGems originally posted on 2014-06-19 on the Duolingo in English forum by Luis

This post is interesting as a slice of Duolingo history.] https://archive.ph/5ZY1E

Duolingo turns two today!

We launched the Duolingo website two years ago at 10:08am EST. It was supposed to be at 10:00am -- lots of people were waiting -- but Tony, Vicki and Severin were still making last minute changes. And then Ryan wanted to change the background color of the whole site. But in the end it worked out, and we were only 8 minutes late :) We couldn't believe we had a whopping 17,000 users that first day.

A lot has happened since then:

Thanks for all of your support! We are spreading free language education together.

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Comment by Z.Shan:

All Confirmed :)

Top row:
1st from left: Luis von Ahn.
2nd from left: Severin Hacker.
3rd from left: Beth Morris.
4th from left: Gregory Hartman.
5th from left: Tyler Murphy.
6th from left: Sean Chin.
7th from left: Denis Meinert.
8th from left: Alicia Ledden.
8th from right: Rémy Marechal.
7th from right: Myra Awodey.
6th from right: David Klionsky.
5th from right: Tony Navas.
4th from right: Karin Tsai.
3rd from right: Vicki Cheung.
2nd from right: Hector Villafuerte.
1st from right: Burr Settles.

Bottom row:
1st from left: Pamela Cardona.
2nd from left: Monica Raffaelli.
3rd from left: Kerley Tolpolar.
4th from left: Marcela Benitez.
5th from left: Kristine Michelsen-Correa.
6th from left: Rogelio Alvarez.
7th from left: Gina Gotthilf.
8th from left: Antonia Scheidel.
8th from right: Max Putas.
7th from right: Brendan Meeder.
6th from right: David Andrews.
5th from right: Franklin Ditzler.
4th from right: Art Chaidarun.
3rd from right: Caitlin Lownes.
2nd from right: Brooke Chan.
1st from right: Matt Streeter.

2014.06.20