Drew Curtis @ Fark.com: The Farker Who Monetized Doom Scrolling

In 1999, a Kentucky entrepreneur named Drew Curtis started feeling guilty about constantly spamming his friends with emails linking to funny news stories. Rather than sending emails, he decided he’d build a website and let people come check it out if they wanted to. He called it Fark.com, a humorous play on the F-bomb pulled from old text-based video games on the early Internet that would censor curse words.

The website quickly became one of the most popular communities on the Internet for sharing funny articles about what was going on in the world. However, unlike other humor sites of its day, Fark still exists and has a thriving community.

On this episode of Web Masters, you'll find out how Drew has managed to keep Fark running for over two decades and through a half-dozen of what he describes as "extinction-level" events on the Internet.

For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.