About Barney's Web
Barney's Web went online in 2002 — a homepage of jokes, funny pictures and optical illusions built by Branislav "Barney" Lukaroski for the Macedonian community in Canada. At its peak it made 30,000 people a month laugh, one dial-up connection at a time.
This 2026 edition preserves the entire original archive — every joke, cartoon, gif and illusion — and adds new material, English–Macedonian bilingual content from our sister site Туѓино Јабано, and a complete rebuild: no frames, no table layouts, no popup ads. Just the jokes.
The community, updated for 2026
- The old country is now officially North Macedonia (since the 2019 Prespa Agreement — our third name in thirty-five years, and we still just say "Macedonia").
- The 2021 census — the first in 19 years — counted 1,836,713 people back home.
- Canada's 2021 census counted 39,440 Canadians of Macedonian origin — community organizations insist the real number is a few times that, and nobody argues with community organizations.
- Toronto remains the largest Macedonian city outside the Balkans, a title it defends every summer with ajvar smoke.
Credits
Original site, jokes and archive: Branislav Lukaroski (2002–2014).
Sotir jokes, graffiti and translations: tugjinojabano.com.
2026 rebuild: statically generated, zero frameworks, all vanilla.