411mania is a pop-culture website covering movies, television, music, pro-wrestling, politics, sports, video games, MMA, and more. The site dates back to August of 1996 and is independently owned by founder Ashish Pabari. A website (or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ...

The site also houses a large online forum community with over 10,000 registered members [1]. As of June 2006, 411mania claimed four million unique visitors and nearly 20 million impressions per month. [2] Site traffic is claimed to have reached record levels in April 2006. [3] Traffic in general is cyclical, usually peaking during March and April of each year, corresponding with the interest in the WWE WrestleMania event that take place around that time. An Internet forum, also known as a message board or discussion board, is a web application that provides for online discussions, and is the modern descendant of the bulletin board systems and existing Usenet news systems that were widespread in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Official WrestleMania logo. ...

Brief history

411mania started as 411wrestling slightly prior to the boom in pro-wrestling interest during the late 1990s.

411wrestling shifted their core focus in 2002 from pro-wrestling only, adding sections for video games and action figures. 411wrestling continued to expand out of the pro-wrestling area and by 2003 had established sections in movies, music, , television, video games, action figures, comics, politics, and pro-wrestling. The site also re-launched in 2003 as 411mania. Editor Jonathan Widro was also promoted to Managing Partner in 2003.

In 2004, 411mania reshuffled the site structure after the departure of editor Jonathan Widro and other writers, which included Scott Keith and Chris Hyatte, to start InsidePulse.com.

Pro wrestling remains 411mania's main focus, followed by movies, games, and music.

Notable past readers include WWE wrestler Matt Hardy, who, in 2004, responded to a column by 'Asteroid Boy', in which the author claimed that Hardy's career had suffered due to his relationship with Lita. Writing on his site www.wwemattitude.com, Hardy denigrated Asteroid Boy's column. Hardy's response was removed within 24 hours by WWE.^{[citation needed]} Hardy most recently praised a positive 411 article by Daniel Wilcox on his official MySpace page, in his blog entry titled "The QUEST to be the BEST begins now!" [4] World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ... Matthew (Matt) Moore Hardy (born September 23, 1974) is an American professional wrestler, currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its SmackDown! brand, where he competes in singles competition, as well as appearing on RAW where hes one half of the World Tag Team Champions with his brother...

Former 411 writer Scott(y) Fowler (writer from 1998 to 2000) has wrestled on WWE Heat and WWE Smackdown. [5] [6] [7]

411mania.com has been mentioned in several mainstream media outlets, most recently in The Boston Globe. [8]

External links

• 411mania.com
• Boston.com