Origins - Fark & Drew Curtis

Posted by Daniel Stout on Tue 1 Apr 2003 at 1:04 PM

Somebody recommended the site Fark.com for weird news to me a while back. I do read Obscure Store fairly frequently for interesting news clippings. The interesting thing about Fark to me was that Drew Curtis — Fark’s progenitor — lived two doors down from me in college. In grad school, I wrote a 50-page nonfiction piece for a class that included an anecdote involving Mr. Curtis and his then girlfriend Heather. I’ll have to dig that out sometime and post it.

Drew had said that we took Computer Science 1 together, but I tended to sit in the front row whereas I think he was one of those back row dwellers. My memory of Drew is that he was more sociable, outgoing, and driven than your average computer science student. That’s probably why Fark has become such a relative success. He’s got tech sensibilities mixed with a sense of humor and a no bullshit demeanor. In college, he talked a lot and loudly which annoyed some people, but he usually got his way.

There’s a longish interview with him on some right-wing site. You’ll have to find it yourself in Google. At any rate, check out fark.com. Fark is well known for the often hilarious photoshopped images that users post on a given topic.

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