GiveUpInternet was founded in 2008 by Sergei, Aft and Gasgoine. It started as a blog focused on technology and internet humor, later becoming widely known through its Internet Culture Dictionary. During its early years it was featured on some of the world’s largest websites and was selected by MakeUseOf as one of the top five tech humor blogs.
The story began when Aft, frustrated by revenue and the disappointing results of his early blogs during the blogging boom, said “I’ll give up internet.” Shortly after he registered the domain and installed WordPress and GiveUpInternet.com came to life.
At that time Jason Calacanis had just sold Weblogs Inc, Digg was far ahead of Reddit, and Kevin Rose was the most popular tech figure on the internet. It was a time much like today when everyone was creating something, cloning SaaS ideas and chasing the next big thing. The technology has changed but the desire to build and succeed hasn’t. What you need today is not another dot com bubble but the same excitement you once had. That energy is still somewhere inside you.
Our lives and dreams have unfolded on the internet. It offered us an alternate reality shielding us from the world we couldn’t always fit into and allowing us to build one that made sense to us. That’s why giving up the internet is a kind of irony in itself.
For seventeen years GiveUpInternet.com has stayed true to this culture sharing stories humor and reflections from the digital world that shaped us.
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10/14/25
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GiveUpInternet.com is a source of internet humor and geeky things since 2008. GUI is one of the top Geeky Website according to MakeUseOf. On November 2015, we decided to convert GiveUpInternet.com into a community that all contributors can share geeky stuff.
When i was a teenager, i wrote this about text, i have said; “… i’ll go on later.” at the end. But i dont think i can. So i’d better leave it alone. Thank you.
“GiveUpInternet.com, is a blog (as you may definitely know), that really wants to bring “humor stuff” to internet people and developers. We just make fun of internet and technology. We are not focused on people. We respect people, we don’t laugh at people. To laugh at others is the cheapest thing on earth. If you can’t stop laughing at people, just go to other humor blogs and sites or look at a mirror.
– To write “Would you date with her?” under a fat girl’s photo is not “humor”. This is not funny. This is rude. This is cruel. This is stupid. Also this is not internet.
… i’ll go on later.”