If you have a computer nearby tonight, you might want to check out the 2004 NORAD Tracks Santa website. The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been tracking Santa for 50 years now, and if you ever wonder how it got started, the story is pretty amazing:
This is the 50th season that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs store’s advertisement for children to call Santa on a special “hotline” included a misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline.”
The Commander-in-Chief did some quick thinking and the rest is history! So yeah, check it out. And as cool as the service is, and as great as I think the idea is, their website could sure use some work. It looks like an old Geocities web page!
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