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Today's internet is occasionally referred to as Web 2.0. The internet revised. There was no software or hardware updates or anything like that, what spawned Web 2.0 was greater integration of the user. Blogs, wikis, social networking sites and the other sundries that created a web culture community were responsible for Web 2.0. What was revolutionary about this point in the internet's young life was that now, more than ever, the end user of the internet was just as much a part of the internet as those creating the websites. But perhaps revolutionary isn't the right word... to be certain there were plenty of sites out there where end-user interaction was the basis of the sites success long before blogs and myspace were the backbone of the web culture that they are today.



Fark is a site that has been around the internet since 1997. Did you even know about the internet back then? I was 17 at the time and more interested in getting into Theresa Patro's panties. However some dude named Drew Curtis set up fark.com and posted a picture. In 1999 the picture came down and up went a list of random news articles that were inadvertently amusing. In 2000 the site added comments. Fark.com is run by a staff but it is updated by the people. Anyone can submit an internet link and a headline. If the admins approve the link, *poof* it goes up. While the articles and websites that you are directed to are amusing and or interesting; what is more funny is the comments. There are thousands of farkers (commenters) and in that thousands, there are a smaller thousands of funny people. Fark is updated constantly, so if you are looking for a site that'll keep you entertained all day, this one will be able to fill that role. This was the first page in Fark I ever read. It had me crying.