Launched
28 February, 2010
Australia ‘should lead on emissions cut’
by Ben Kruzins
Put to rest
8 November, 2021
The Hard Pill to Swallow: Women and GPs have to talk
by Lyndsey Turnbull
Well, those dates aren’t strictly correct. While the final, WordPress-powered incarnation of NowUC was indeed launched in 2010, the publication has actually been around since 2003. Unfortunately, the pre-WordPress website is lost to the winds of time except for snapshots preserved by the Wayback Machine. Check out that fresh, Web1.0 design.
And here’s what the relaunched, WordPress-powered version of NowUC looked like in 2010.
In the nearly 11 years since that relaunch, journalism and sports media students published over 2,300 articles! That’s a lot of Monster Energy-fuelled, end-of-semester all-nighters.
So, without further ado, let’s dive into Google Analytics and count down the top ten NowUC stories from the past decade, based on the number of page views.
#10
And nothing hurt — A Kurt Vonnegut reading order
by Lucy Monaghan
#9
The Canberra roads every motorcyclist should explore
by Felix Bernhardi
#8
Most Gluten Free Friendly Places in Canberra
by Samantha Rose
#7
Cyberpunk 2077: The decade’s biggest flop
by Thomas Hoogendoorn
#6
The Best Bubble Teas in Canberra
by Diego San Agustin
#5
The secret beaches on the South Coast the locals don’t tell you about
by Talia Jones
#4
The 5 greatest teams in NRL History
by Thomas Stilling
#3
Top Three Places to Play Pool in Canberra
by Todd Zachary Herzman
#2
The best small towns around Canberra for a weekend getaway
by Thomas Spencer
#1
Love yourself: Top 5 self-love movies of all time
by Reva Ganesan
And that’s it! The ten most popular stories on NowUC from 2011 to 2021. You can still go and read the other 2,308.
You served us well, NowUC, but it’s time to go quietly into retirement. The Owl is the new home of the journalism and sports media programs at UC and we can’t wait to see what our students publish. Onwards!