Not long. It was accidentally started on October 5th of 2021. To the left, you can see the post in a Facebook group that started it. I say "accidentally", because that's really what it was. I was wondering how to market my small company, and I was also thinking about how fun it would be to make Chromebooks. (Yup).
Then I wondered: "Could I just make them and give them away to kids who don't have any way to do their homework online?" So I asked, and you answered...and it started to work. Families and kids got computers they needed. 2 months later, the local newspaper, "The Osprey Observer" was nice enough to run a story on it. You can see it here:
So, I kept at it, and you kept at it, and we're still doing it. It's slowed down a bit over the winter, but we're looking towards a big push forward and beyond. This just might turn into something.