Web Masters
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October 25, 2021 2:05am
43m
When you see something funny and snap a great pic or grab an awesome video, you’ve got tons of options for where to post it. Instagram. YouTube. TikTok. Twitter. Reddit. Facebook. Maybe LinkedIn if it’s not too NSFW.
At the very least, posting your entertaining content might make your friends chuckle. If you’re lucky, it could even go viral and give you a solid 15 minutes of fame. But what would you have done with that content before social media? Where would you have shared it?
Josh Abramson helped solve that problem. When he was a freshman, he and his best friend from high school, Ricky Van Veen, launched a website called CollegeHumor.com. People would send College Humor their funny stories, pictures, and videos, and they would post them.
Sure, we’ve moved well beyond that way of sharing user-generated content, but the 1990s were a different time on the Internet, and, as you'll hear in this episode of Web Masters, promoting new websites relied on different types of strategies.
For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.
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