Christopher Monks

Metal news box on the side of the road covered in stickers, including the logo of The Onion

Laughs Online

In 2003, when I first moved to New York at eighteen, I remember reading The Onion at various coffee shops, clutching it in a mittened hand in Washington Square Park. The Onion was also online then, of course. It’s been online since 1996, which is crazy considering what the Internet looked like back then. (When I try to…