Fark
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
1999·Early web, before YouTube
A site to which members submit links to news stories under headlines of their own, and administrators choose which appear.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 1999
- Made by
- Drew Curtis
- What it said
- “Farked” came to mean a site knocked offline by the traffic a link from Fark sent it
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Drew Curtis's site of odd news, where the submitted headline mattered more than the article and the tags — Florida, Asinine, Obvious — became a way of reading the world. A direct ancestor of every social feed since.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Curtis registers the address.1
- Made
The site is launched.1
- Later
A paid tier is introduced, letting subscribers see every submitted link.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- The site made the label NSFW common in headlines.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · the upload that made its maker known
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Created by Drew Curtis. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.
SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things