So, earlier this month, a group of friends and I were gmail-conversation arguing the merits of Stuff White People Like (okay, so maybe I’m a stick in the mud, but I just don’t like it), when someone jokingly suggested we go completely contrarian, and start stuffnobodylikes.com. My very entrepreneurial roommate had the domain bought within the hour.

Luckily I purchased the deluxe (ooh fancy!) hosting account when I started this little website a few months ago. By 4am I had the domain linked to hosting, Wordpress downloaded (I’m suddenly becoming a pro at this), and the first post, #1. Herpes, was born (there is something truly disturbing about “herpes” and “born” being in the same sentence).

Twenty-four hours later, my verbose (and very talented) friends had posted 22 entries.

One week later, we had 20,000 hits, were posted on metafilter.com and I was being interviewed by NPR. Whaaaaaat?

I don’t think I ever really understood the power of the web until that week. My webmastering was relevant enough to warrant an NPR interview?! Surely not. But I suppose we now live in a world where any of us can get our 15 minutes by starting some internet meme or publishing a video of our dads dancing to “Superman Dat Ho.” (I haven’t posted the video yet, but by god, I will someday!)

Anyway, this webmastermistress thing is new to me. I’m sharpening my .php skills, and learning just a teeny tiny bit about MySQL databases. Yippee!

So, it is without further ado that I introduce you to my new unexpected child (it may be the only grandchild you’ll get, mom, so learn to love its whining): StuffNobodyLikes.com.

Tags: web design, wordpress

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