The Daily Jolt is based on a Web site called Amherst Central which originally existed on the Amherst College server. Amherst Central was conceived by Amit Gupta '01 during the summer of 1998 and created by Amit and Noah T. Winer '01 that fall. The site became The Daily Jolt in the spring of 1999 with the help of Seth Fitzsimmons '02.
Today the Daily Jolt has expanded to many other
colleges and universities including Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Middlebury, Hampshire, and many more.