Blink (community)

Blink was one of the earliest and largest online communities in Norway, which operated from 2002 to 2011. Launched by the media lab of the national daily newspaper Dagbladet, at its peak, it had 300,000 users.

It was created by Fredrik Kristiansen and Morten Mitch Larød, and released on February 1, 2002. Over the following two years, the community became twice as popular as any other Norwegian community. Until 2006, the website was only available at the address blink.dagbladet.no, but then Dagbladet.no bought the web address blink.no.

The community was finally closed down at the end of 2011, due to a mass flight of users to competitors like Facebook. After this flight, the 4,000 active members were not enough for the community to remain viable and it was therefore closed down.