A Bizarre Blast From the Past!

bizarrenewsimageBizarre News was started by some guy working on his computer at home all the way back in 1997 or 1998. We recruited Bizarre News to be a part of our catalog of email newsletters and it soon became one of our biggest publications on Gophercentral.com.

On March 1st, after 25 weird and wild years, we wrapped up its historic run. Hopefully you we one of our many readers that got to appreciate the laughs as much as we appreciated the bizarre events and occurrences that happened each and every day. For past issue visit the Bizarre News Archives.

Of course a little over a month later we discovered a video, from a VHS Tape no less, that featured Joe, editor of Bizarre News, on the syndicated talk show, Sally Jessy Raphael. He was there to share the “Top 5 Bizarre News Stories” we had reported at the time.

It’s so much fun to look back at this video and marvel at the technology, the fashions, the hairstyles, and what we considered bizarre back then.

And we thought those that are going through Bizarre News withdrawal would get a real kick of this video time capsule. So without further ado… roll it!

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GopherCentral’s Got the Content That You Want to Read – For FREE!

If we were to take a look back 24 years at a little suburb of Chicago, IL we would find the roots of what would become one of the biggest email newsletter networks on the Internet.

All the way back then it was called Shagmail. We can thank a popular James Bond spoof film which came out that year for that. At that time email was exploding. AOL was mailing out free trial discs by the millions and the general public was just discovering the convenience and immediacy that email provided.

The next step was a no-brainer; provide content people want to read in their email and the audience will grow. Shagmail.com started with about 10 email magazines, or eZines. Titles like the clean joke list Clean Laffs, the adult joke list Laff-a-Day, the home-cooking column Marzee’s Recipes, and Bizarre News were all written and published in-house by PulseTV staff.

As the popularity increased so did the number of titles. With a dramatically growing audience the decision was made to re-brand Shagmail with a somewhat more inclusive name; GopherCentral.com.

These days GopherCentral.com is more of an email boutique. The most popular publications are still there, with a core audience of fans who forward their favorite issues around to their friends and still patronize PulseTV.com. Now GopherCentral.com is starting to grow a social media presence as well. If you have never read a GopherCentral.com eZine they are all free, like they have always been, and the editors are just waiting to say hello. All it takes is an email address and a click!

And be sure to check out our archives page! Just click the image below…