That year, the book was awarded the second Thurber Prize for American Humor. On March 23rd, 1999, The Onion published the satirical humor book Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source, which featured mock newspaper front pages for years ranging from 1900 to 1999. However in August of 2011, the website implemented another paywall requiring visitors outside of the United States to pay a fee to access more than five articles in a 30-day period.
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In April of 2004, the website launched the “Onion Premium” paid subscription service, which allowed an ad-free browsing experience and full access to the site’s archives, but it was discontinued in the following year after disappointing results. On August 29th, 2003, CNN published an article titled “The Onion: Funny site is no joke”, which reported that the publication remained a “Midwestern secret” until the website was launched in 1996. In May of 1996, the website was launched, featuring many of the newspaper articles as well as web-exclusive content on a daily basis. Several years later in 2000, the publication was approached for purchase by the cable television network Comedy Central, but a deal was not made. In the following years, Dikkers and Haise took the newspaper to several other college campuses in Milwaukee, Chicago, and Boulder. In 1989, Keck and Johnson sold the paper to Onion staff members Scott Dikkers and Peter Haise for $16,000. The publication's name was chosen by Johnson's uncle after witnessing his nephew eat an onion sandwich on white bread. According to an article in The Washington Post, The Onion newspaper was founded in 1988 by University of Wisconsin-Madison students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson.
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