In 1995, a familiar experience sat at the center of many people’s introduction to dial-up internet: the chance to create something for themselves. Along with the access to the World Wide Web, Telnet, ...

At 11:35 p.m. on April 6, 2000, Tom Fulp and his motley crew of developers changed the landscape of the internet forever. The Portal, which allowed users to upload their own animations and content to ...

Some of them faded into history, but others—Newgrounds, Fark, Something Awful, and I-Mockery—remain online decades after their key period of relevance. Each started in similar ways—essentially, as ...