This month marks the 24th Anniversary of the Fun House

The Fun House site was born in November of 1995. The first edition contained only one naked celebrity – the iconic picture of Madonna hitchhiking naked. When the site hit ten years of age I thought it was unbelievable enough, but 24 is an entire lifetime – long enough for a newborn who came into the world when I began the site to have finished grad school, perhaps to have married and sired children of his own. The Fun House is three years older than Google, nine years older than Facebook and YouTube, eleven years older than Twitter.

Uncle Scoopy’s Fun House has been updated every day since it began. To my knowledge, it is the longest-running blog on the internet to be updated every day. That is not to say the longest running in my category, but in ANY category. Those very primitive early editions are lost like tears in the rain, but the back issues that are still available date back to April of 1998 (when they were still primitive) – and even that goes back to before the dawn of Google!

Other Crap is a mere child compared to the Fun House. (Well, it is literally a child of the Fun House. Before it became an independent site, Other Crap used to be a part of the daily Fun House blog, as were the Ballpark and the Movie House.) It appears to me that the oldest Other Crap posts date back to June, 2003, so it is a mere 16 years old, younger than Google, but still older than Facebook, YouTube or Twitter!

Tempus fucking fugit, man.

13 thoughts on “This month marks the 24th Anniversary of the Fun House

  1. Congratulations!

    Not only the only site on the Internet which has been updated every day for 24 years, but also the only site on the Internet which _deserves_ to have been updated every day for 24 years.

    I’ve been a reader for almost that long. Back then, I still lived with my parents, so needed to be careful. Then, I lived alone, and didn’t need to be careful. Now, I’m married, and need to be careful again.

    Here’s to the next 24!

  2. Scoop, you’re making us feel old!

    Happy 24th anniversary to you and the site! I can’t pinpoint the year I found you, but it’s in the 1999-2000 time frame, and since then, it’s usually the first place I check in the mornings, even before Fox News, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Zerohedge, and Trump’s Twitter feed.

    As one of your few conservative readers, I thank you for making us feel welcome too, even though we agree on very little, politically.

    So I guess we all owe you something silver next year? I’ll keep my eyes open for a nice Silver Trump pendant or something 🙂

    Here’s to another 24!

  3. Happy Anniversary!

    Not sure if I have been here since the beginning but I am sure it was the mid 90’s.
    Been a paying supporter of the Funhouse on and off since then. It was you Scoop, who gave me my Gmail invite when it was invite only! Thanks for keeping the flame and beautiful women burning!!

  4. I found the Fun House not long after I first got on the net. For a long time I fought having a home computer, figuring it would be a huge time suck. (I was right.) Then I met my wife, the actual Nature Mom. She’d always had one and you can’t really go back. So then I could stop wondering which libraries were going to block The OC.
    But yeah, part of a complete breakfast, so glad you’re here. Stay classy, never quit. I’ll toast you with a Double Dew.

  5. Happy birthday. I probably came for the boobies but stayed for the commentary. Keep it up.

  6. Congrats, we may be getting greyer and need bigger screens to see what we love seeing, but it is still the first place I check every morning.

    The lovely ladies, the sports and now politics… Its like the Sun Newspaper from the UK but with more women and better writing.

    I will be 80 when another 24 years pass… It will probably be streamed straight into my brain by then.

    Cheers Greg

  7. Congratulations!

    I’m an old-timer, too (of course, you probably already know that, Scoop). I don’t recall the exact year, but I was living in my first place of my own and working my first job out of college when I found the Fun House. The Fun House & a site called Mets Online were my daily morning reading then.

    The college kid who ran Mets Online is now the Yankees beat writer for mlb.com. As for me, I’m on my 8th address and 4th full-time employer since and have added a wife & son along the way. Checking Other Crap is still one of the first things I do each morning after I wake up.

    You know how some singers provide the soundtrack to your life? Uncle Scoopy is my online version of that.

  8. I too have been here for a really, really long time. At least 1998, I would guess. Certainly this is far and away the only site I’ve checked daily, or nearly thereabouts, for 2 decades.

  9. Jeezus. I don’t remember when I first saw the Fun House but it was no later than 97 and quite possibly earlier. I’m 48 now so its been with me almost half my life.

    Two things of equal importance. I saw a particular movie before I read your review but it really helped snapped its brilliance into focus:
    http://www.fakes.net/roadhouse.htm

    As good as Ebert and Berardinelli are at film reviews, I don’t think they ever wrote something that made me want to watch something this badly:
    http://www.fakes.net/edge.htm

    Thanks

  10. Happy birthday!

    I actually might have been a member in ’96 or so. When Rasslin’ was more active and there was something about cupcakes.

    And there were no pics of Alyssa Milano.

    1. That Cupcakes thing was a site paying tribute to small breasts, if I recall. I don’t remember the site very well, but I remember that I made some decent cash selling the domain (to somebody who actually wanted to sell cupcakes). I think it is now for sale again.

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