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History

In Tom's own words, from the site's History page:

The site is powered by a SQL database, with updates occurring on a periodic basis.

In the summer of 2000, a soon-to-be senior citizen, who was an off-spring of a former traveling salesman, got the idea about providing jocular tidbits for his friends. These friends were located in several different parts of the country and did not reside near to the author of the site. In fact, the site's author had moved around the country many times over forty years, re-locating at least 13 times. And this included to one foreign country.

The son of the site's author was a 2000 graduate of Xavier University and had began his career in the Internet world by starting a web-hosting business. Since the site's author had been in the IT industry for over thirty years, it was only natural to utilize the internet for what it was originally intended; a gathering of information and dissemination to the world. In September, 2000, the site went live for the first time. Over the next three years, it evolved into a multi-function storage and messaging medium. During 2003, it was decided that the multitude of material would be better presented if it was data-driven. Thus, a multi-month project was begun to place the html pages into a format that could be accessed and displayed both randomly and by user selection. Now, since the technology has evolved, in 2010 the site was completely reworked under ASPX technology, using Microsoft's Visula Web Developer 2010 Express.

This is what you are seeing today....

Database contents for the site (2011)

2,972Jokes
404One Liners
292Red Neck Jokes
356Blonde Jokes (Male / Female)
1,003Things that make you go Hmmm
1,498I Bet Ya Didn't Know
3,226Quotes
1,027Trivia
1,115Cartoons
4,569Recipes
11,601Birthday Notes
523Phobias
499Tips
474Word Definitions
217Events that occurred on a date
122Who Could It Be

“Updated and enhanced on a regular basis.”

The site through the years