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[High Resolution Press Picture (MG CAR)]Jollyroger.com(TM): Flagship of the WWW Renaissance(TM) Sails Forth for Education and Entertainment
CHARLOTTE, N.C.,/PRNewswire/ -- Jollyroger.com(TM) represents a marriage of the timeless truths to modern technology. Rather than striving to be all things to all people, "The World's Classical Portal(TM)" seeks to be the best to everyone while leveraging evolving internet technologies so as to bring the classics to life.
The New York Times deemed jollyroger.com "simply unprecedented," adding that the site "teems with discussion, the kind that goes well beyond freshman lit 101." The Los Angeles Times referred to the classical portal as "a lavish virtual community known as The Jolly Roger(TM)."
The niche portal's rich classical context is enhanced via visitor contributions, and as the classics come to life when they are shared, each day over 20,000 high school and college students, teachers, professors, and fans of the classics from all about the watery globe are drawn to jollyroger.com for both entertainment and education. Visitors may participate in discussions and live chats devoted to the likes of Lincoln, Frost, Beethoven, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Austen, and Rembrandt, build web pages to join the Renaissance Fleet, listen to MP3s of traditional poetry, and create free electronic greeting cards by combining classical music, art, and poetry.
Jollyroger.com also has fun with satire and humor, as the generation-x/generation-y crew rebels against the postmodern ideology en route to "pirating the profound" and advancing the WWW Renaissance. The nautical and literary themes draw heavily upon the romance of tall ships of yore, classic seafaring books like Treasure Island and Moby Dick, and the pristine beauty of the North Carolina Outer Banks.
This past November jollyroger.com published the first novel of the WWW Renaissance, The Tragedy of Drakeraft.com, which is a modern-day Hamlet set on the gothic Princeton University campus. Jollyroger.com Unplugged, consisting of a compilation of literary works from the site, shall be published in the spring of 2000.
Jollyroger.com was launched in 1995 while Dr. Elliot McGucken was pursuing his physics Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. As one of the first websites devoted to the classics, jollyroger.com was started by bootstrapping, and it has since grown organically to where it's currently serving over 100,000 pageviews a day and receiving over 200,000 unique visitors each month. The site is profitable via ecommerce, advertising, and affiliate relationships.
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