Famous Birthdays

Famous Birthdays is an American website based in Los Angeles, California which is dedicated to cataloging the birthdays of famous people and compiling other facts about them.[1][2]

Famous Birthdays
The Famous Birthdays homepage as it appeared on June 18, 2018
Available inEnglish
URLwww.famousbirthdays.com
LaunchedJanuary 12, 1996 (1996-01-12)
Written inHTML, JavaScript

Rebranded in 2012 by Evan Britton, who has since described the website as "Wikipedia for Generation Z".[3] It originally focused on traditional celebrities like Tom Hanks and Kobe Bryant, but it has since broadened its scope to include celebrities popular on the Internet who would not conventionally be considered "famous".[1] As of January 2018, it had over 150,000 pages of people and was viewed by an average of 18 million unique users each month.[4]

References
  1. Wright, Mic (2015-06-10). "What you know about fame is wrong and this site proves it". The Next Web. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  2. Kuo, Benjamin F. (2013-05-14). "Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com". Socaltech. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. Gutelle, Sam (2018-01-24). "How Famous Birthdays became 'Wikipedia for Generation Z'". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  4. "How Famous Birthdays Uses 500,000 Daily Searches To Build A Database Of Gen Z Culture". Tubefilter. 2018-01-23. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
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