How long has the Drudge Report been around?
That depends on your point of view. Matt Drudge, who worked in the CBS studio gift shop, began posting items he heard — and retrieved from executive suite garbage cans — at online newsgroups. When people started asking to be put on his mailing list, he began a $10 e-mail subscription to the Drudge Report. This got him a column at Wired and AOL, and, of course, he started the site we know today. He quit his job to work full-time on the Drudge Report in 1995. Matt has posted “anniversary” announcements in April, although his book mentions that he began working on all this since winter 1994.
