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Pop Culture

All About
Karoline Asdal

Flash Staff Reporter

At the age of 21, David
Karp, a New York-born
web developer and
entrepreneur, founded the
social networking website
Tumblr. This happened
in February 2007,
and in those six years
the blogging platform
has grown a lot.
Today it is the home
to about 110 million
blogs. The concept
of Tumblr is “shortblogging”, often posting
nothing but pictures,
sometimes even