Josh Abramson @ College Humor: The Freshman Who Helped the Internet Laugh

<p>When you see something funny and snap a great pic or grab an awesome video, you’ve got tons of options for where to post it. Instagram. YouTube. TikTok. Twitter. Reddit. Facebook. Maybe LinkedIn if it’s not too NSFW.</p><p><br></p><p>At the very least, posting your entertaining content might make your friends chuckle. If you’re lucky, it could even go viral and give you a solid 15 minutes of fame. But what would you have done with that content before social media? Where would you have shared it?</p><p><br></p><p>Josh Abramson helped solve that problem. When he was a freshman, he and his best friend from high school, Ricky Van Veen, launched a website called CollegeHumor.com. People would send College Humor their funny stories, pictures, and videos, and they would post them.</p><p><br></p><p>Sure, we’ve moved well beyond that way of sharing user-generated content, but the 1990s were a different time on the Internet, and, as you'll hear in this episode of Web Masters, promoting new websites relied on different types of strategies.</p><p>For a complete transcript of the episode, <a href="https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-56-josh-abramson/">click here</a>.</p><p><br></p>