Interesting, I didn't know about that fact.
It looks very basic without bitcoin addresses on main page and without extra features we have today, but it was useful back in the days.
Other hidden facts you did not know, I guess so, because I did not add it in OP.It looks very basic without bitcoin addresses on main page and without extra features we have today, but it was useful back in the days.
- theymos initially launched the Block explorer as a close source. Later he made it open source.
- He run it for a long time till 2012 when he switched the domain to blockexplorer.com [1], before passing it to Liraz.org. The owner of Liraz site is Lira Siri
- Lira Siri runs the Bitcoin block explorer for a while until May or June 2020 before made some change and later turned it to Joseon Explorer
- Source of the information
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120308072440/http://blockexplorer.com/
Some screenshots for above information.
