Fark Founder Celebrates 25 Years Of Riffing On Weird News
HuffPost
In October, 1999, Fark.com began posting links to wacky stories along with user-submitted headlines that were invariably funnier than the originals.
One of the internet’s oldest spots for weird links turns 25 this month, and it all started with a photo of a squirrel with giant nuts.
In October 1999, Fark.com began posting links to wacky stories along with user-submitted headlines that were invariably funnier than the originals.
Founder Drew Curtis said that for two years, before he started the site as it exists today, he used a photo of a squirrel with giant testicles as a placeholder.
Curtis said he used to use the word “fark” a lot as a euphemism for profanity in his daily life, but registered it as a domain name in 1997 after he heard the internet was running out of four-letter domain names.
“I had no idea of what to do with the site, so I put a photo of the squirrel with giant nuts,” Curtis told HuffPost. (The well-endowed rodent can still be seen on Fark’s FAQ page.)