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Traditions only last as long as people are willing to participate. For example, Mr.T no longer eats my balls. All your base no longer belong to us.

I just think it's time that the people that grew up typing it that way should...grow up.

  It came from a time when Microsoft was doing the most "evil" in the tech world. Oh, they would do anything for money, even take away choice! Now we have Google, Apple, Intel, Facebook, AT&T and many others doing things way more evil than not allowing you to uninstall their browser. Or not open sourcing something or whatever the original complaint was.

it was cute! and by the way the hamster lives

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I would guess it is a reference to The Hampster Dance (warning not safe for people with taste.).

What the hell is a "Hampster"?

Hampster is a surname popular in some communities of hamsters, just as Pearson is popular in some communities of persons. Famous Hampsters include Hampton Hampster of Hampsterdance.

How do you account for popular sites that are completely devoid of content *and* are a bit lacking in the design department, e.g. http://www.howisyourday.com/ and http://www.hampsterdance.com./

Hampsterdance.

Atleast the memory of the original is still preserved here although it is not quite the same: http://www.hampsterdance.com/classorig.html
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Free PlayStation 3

But it has been mercilessly fucked up.

Do not click on http://www.hampsterdance.com/

http://hampsterdance.com/

Way back in the day, I had to write some code into our client's web site that recognized search engine IPs & gave them different "optimized" pages to boost their search ranking (this was before people realized that getting caught doing so would actually hurt your rank).

So on April 1st that year, I took the external IP of the internal corporate network, & made a front page of the site that was filled with images from the hampster [sic] dance site, complete w/ the sound file- the site still showed up normally for the rest of the world, but everyone in the office saw the hamster dance page, unless they used the internal network IPs to view the site (which I used,to show people "Hmm, works fine for me..."). Reactions ranged from a bunch of laughs & "Aww, that's cute"s around the office, to one of the assistant producers running around going "OMG Our site's been hacked!" before I was asked to turn it off.

Well, sort of :)

cLive ;-)

are all more than willing to power objects their way. Isn't that enough?

are all more than willing to power objects their way. Isn't that enough?

And if properly prepared, at least two good meals.

please send me naked lady

Here ya go.

[This is evidently the "Hampster Dance" version.]

I've always wondered why the only popular uses of Flash that spread via word-of-mouth are horrifically awful.

Badger, Badger, Mushroom.

All Your Base.

Hamster Dance.

Singing Rats

Strong Bad is marginally better quality, but it's still hardly on par with a lot of good animation out there.

What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?

Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff. Adult Swim has to do so well for *some* reason...

and it is hard to select music [that rats] enjoy

Are the rats allied with the hamsters, or are they at war? If the former, look here.

I bet that Paul Bernardo drank milk at one point in his life, time to sue the milk producers, the milk companies, cow food producers, farm equipment makers, steel producers, miners, etc. More foolish bullsh!t in america. Don't be surprised.

Dumb-ass pointless crap like this makes me long for the early days of the Internet, when sites like The Hampsterdance were still worth visiting.



(sigh)

Oh, well... at least we still have StrongBad.

Bill Murray
Remember how vindictive he was trying to get that damned gopher in Caddy Shack?

OMG! That pesky gopher defaced the FBI website!

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Don't click here Is it art if it makes you laugh and nauseous at the same time? I expect Salvidor Dali and Picasso thought so.

This Alien Shore by CS Friedman, featured a lot of stuff about code as art, including the interesting idea of "charting a program" to see if it made a "pretty picture".

I think there may have been some similar concepts in "Crytonomicon", and definitely "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson.

BTW my very first instructions for a computer were pencil on something that looked like a punched card but used pencil marks instead of punch holes, to generate calendars with ascii art pictures. We all wanted the picture of the horse, but mostly we got wizard of id, or Einstein. Ie the picture was selected randomly or sequentially or something but we didn't get to choose it.

And I'd been playing with the shapes you could make out of lcd numbers on calculators before that. 3838383;8383838 then x / y them etc.

I always seek "elegance" in mathematical equations and programming code, but I'm not sure that makes it "art".

Why-do-I-care panders: The other day, Some Guy took his radical casemod out for a bit of 802.11 action at 36,000 feet. That's amazing, beats the onboard movie.

You mean Hampsterdance.com, my friend. And please don't forget about our friend the Naked Dancing Llama.

We already have such thing. It is called the hampsterdance.
It is performed by geeks whenever they are scared or hurt. It alerts other geeks which will run away screaming. It is especially powerfull when performed in groups.
As with many behavioural paterns a symbolized incarnation of this dance is part of the geeks mating dance. At special events (eg a major kernel release) young geeks gather in a terminal room and dance the dance from 0:00 to 6:00AM. Regional variants include waving with PDA's, drinking coke and connecting ethernet cable.

Hypermedia is hypertext with a difference - hypermedia documents contain links not only to other pieces of text, but also to other forms of media...

Nobody even imagined back in the day that we could have sounds, videos, and animations on the page itself. But now we do, and what do we do with it?
Hampsterdance,, that's what.

Make Seven

However, word of mouth on the internet (email especially) is a very powerful force. How else can you explain the Mahir phenomenon?

certain things can gain instant attention. Anybody seen the Hampsterdance? (on the TV *net commercial) or the Mahir you have referred to, featured on the Daily Show, no less. But, for a viable commercial entity this kind of stuff doesn't work. If I start spamming my friends telling them about how great /. is, I doubt the response will be as good as it would be for something like this. E-mail friend marketing is only good for a momentary laugh, not a high-speed million dollar long term Internet business.

And who says the blanket spam/popup/banner ads crap that AOL does are all that effective anyway?

These guys and these guys and these folks, (and others that take more than 15 seconds to find) the basic consensus is that these types of ads work better, but annoy folks. Howver, newbies won't realize that these ads should be annoying, will accept them as normal, and outweigh the clued by a large enough margin that media providers like, oh, say, AOL, can ignore user compaints and keep painting my rare earth elements with crap.

Music is a whole 'nother story, I think we can win that one. And I agree with the big busines imploding idea, IBM is a great example. But, AOL owns ICQ, and Shoutcast, and Winamp (yes, I know about icecast, and *cq and XMMS). I've ranted about this topic enough (check my info page), so I'll stop now.