Founded in 1980
Denounce was started in 1980 on the PLATO system at the University of Delaware as a satire of =announce=, the system notesfile where users could read about PLATO system changes, outages, new software installations, new features, etc. Prime candidates for satirization. =denounce= was inspired by another humor notesfile on PLATO called =grapenotes=.

Haven't heard of the PLATO system? Few have. Predates the web, the Internet, AOL, the WELL, pretty much everything you know. :-) That's ok. Trust me. It was good.

The Denounce website was launched in 1996 to carry on the tradition of the original =denounce= notesfile -- but instead of parodying PLATO system announcements (which by 1995 were, well, few and far between), the website decided to take on the next best thing -- the computer and internet industry.

Within a few weeks of launch, Yahoo picked the site as a Site of the Day, even going so far as to ask Denounce's creator if he wanted to join Yahoo's PR department to write its press releases.

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Denounce writes all of its own material, and is unable (oh, let's face it -- unwilling) to accept submissions at this time. Unless the money's right, of course.

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