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CollegeHumor

Accessed February 18, 2007
URL http://www.collegehumor.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Entertainment website
Registration Optional
Owner Connected Ventures
Created by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen
Launched 1999
Andrew Ronald Derek McGowan Had created this awesome site

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CollegeHumor is a humor website. The site features short columns, multimedia content, and links to other websites. A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML...

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Overview

The site was created in 1999 by Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen, two high school friends from Baltimore, Maryland as a means to stay in touch when they attended college. It has since grown considerably and is operated by Connected Ventures, a New York company comprising Abramson, Van Veen, Jakob Lodwick, and Zach Klein as partners, that also owns Defunker, BustedTees, and Vimeo. Site traffic averages eight million monthly unique visitors; most visitors are male and in between the ages of 18 and 24.[1] CollegeHumor is divided into sections including Videos, Pictures, Articles, Girls, and CHTV. This article is about the year. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N  - Longitude 75° 03′ W to 79° 29... Vimeo is a video-sharing site (owned by Connected Ventures) which launched in November 2004. ... A unique visitor is a statistic describing a unit of traffic to a Web site, counting each visitor only once in the time frame of the report. ...


The pictures section is one of CollegeHumor's largest attractions and consists of over 25,000 user submitted pictures with well over a dozen added daily. The Pictures section is divided into the following content-based categories: Animals, Cars, Celebrities, College!, Food, Nature, Ouch, Sexy, Sports, and Words. Additionally, registered users that are over the age of 18 may access the R-Rated section, which was added to house media with nudity. Pictures depict the general obscurities of daily college life, and contests such as the "That Guy", "Girls on the Toilet", and an effort to document "boobies" from every university in America are frequent topics of submission. Additionally, the men behind the scenes aim to incorporate "boobies" into many song lyrics, used as captions for topless pictures in the R-Rated section. For other uses, see Breast (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Breast (disambiguation). ...


The Videos section has one of the largest collections of editorially-picked funny videos in North America, with over 5,000 user submitted videos on the site and over 20 million monthly videos streams. The Videos section on CollegeHumor is divided into the following content-based categories: Animals, Celebrities, College!, Commercials/Trailers, Insanity, Nerdy Stuff, Sketch Comedy, Sports, Talent Show and Original Videos. In September, 2006, CollegeHumor began making Original Videos, which now live under the brand "CHTV". Some CHTV videos that have become huge "viral" hits include the "Street Fighter: The Later Years" series, "Minesweeper: The Movie", "Internet Commenters Business Meeting", "Girls's Costume Warehouse", and the "Prank War" series.


The site is credited with launching the career of comedian Steve Hofstetter, the site's original columnist. Several other comedians have since written for the site, including Christian Finnegan, Ben Gleib, and Dan Levy. Steve Hofstetter (born September 11, 1979) is an author, columnist and comedian, who started with material particularly pertaining to college life, and has since become a social commentator. ... Chad in Mad Real World. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...


CollegeHumor has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop films dealing with college humor.[2] Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...


CollegeHumor originally gained notoriety by selling a novelty foam hand making a sexually-suggestive hand gesture known as the shocker (parodying the popular "We're # 1" foam hands sold at sporting events). This item has become one of CollegeHumor's best selling products. Some people have incorrectly credited CollegeHumor as coming up with the shocker, when in reality it had been an inside joke among college students for some time before the site started selling the foam hands. Example of the Shocker. ...


CollegeHumor, along with its parent company Connected Ventures, was acquired by Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in August 2006.[3]


Books

  • (2006) The CollegeHumor Guide to College ISBN 0-525-94939-9 [1]
  • (2007) Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself ISBN 0-525-94991-7 [2]

External links

References

  1. ^ "InterActiveCorp Businesses".
  2. ^ "Comingsoon.net".
  3. ^ "InterActiveCorp Businesses".

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