From points across California, you're listening to a special Disneyland edition of the Diz-Unplugged.

Hello and welcome to the Diz-Unplug Ground Table Discussion Disneyland Edition for the week of June 7th, 2012.

I'm your host Tom Bell and I'm joined by our Disneyland team, Nancy Johnson and Wayne Toyo, Tony Spatel has the night off.

In this special edition, we'll celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Diz by chatting with some of your favorite moderators and Diz-ers, including Diz-Boards, moderators Mary Jo Molata-Willy and Sherry Edie,

and longtime Diz-ers Jennifer Grenole, Chris Fettel and Trey Walters, plus the founder of the Diz, the one and only Pete Werner.

Welcome everyone.

Hello everyone.

We have a full room tonight so...

It's a very big round table.

It's a very, very big digital round table. Who's the furthest away, Trey?

You know, I think Pete is a little further away over here.

Yeah, I'm out in Florida.

I think between Pete on the Far East Coast and me on the Far Northwest Coast.

And everywhere in between.

So this is our version of the 15th anniversary show for the Diz.

Pete, can you give us... I know you guys are going to do a show also, but can you give us maybe a short version of how the Diz came to be?

I don't think there was a short version of how the Diz came to be.

I started it, obviously 15 years ago, or official birthday is June 1st, 1997.

Technically speaking, the site went up in late May of 1997.

But I had actually just started it to learn some web development skills.

I was a big Disney fan.

So I just created this little Disney site.

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