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HTML: Is it Art?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cool-online-art-besides-superbad dept.

joeljones writes "The New York Times (registration, yeah, yeah, yeah) has an interesting story about two artists who use HTML, Javascript, and other web technologies as their medium. Could be an interesting set of test cases for anyone writing a browser." While we're on the subject of artsy sites, I submit Zombo.com for your perusal. I believe it to be the only web site that claims the infinite is possible.

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  1. oh my by ergonal · · Score: 3, Funny

    What did ZOMBO do to annoy CowbowNeal THAT much?

    1. Re:oh my by Jade+E.+2 · · Score: 3, Funny
      What did ZOMBO do to annoy CowbowNeal THAT much?

      Go to the site, make sure your sound is on, hit F11 (Assuming you're using Phoenix or IE), sit back, and relax. In about 10 minutes one of three things will happen. Either you'll understand his annoyance, you'll go into a coma, or you'll be hooked for life.

    2. Re:oh my by Ozan · · Score: 4, Funny

      What did ZOMBO do to annoy CowbowNeal THAT much?

      Hmm...

      "Welcome to Zombocom!"

      "This is Zombocom!"

      "You can do anything... at Zombocom!"

      "Anything at all!"

      "The only limit is yourself!"

      "Anything is possible... at Zombocom!"

      "The infinite is possible... at Zombocom!"

      "The unattainable is unknown... at Zombocom!"

      I think it was letting Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf speak the introduction.

      "There are no infidel Americans... at Zombocom!"

  2. zombocom by selderrr · · Score: 3, Funny

    reminds me of the internet in its infancy, where we allready had the really big button that doesn't do anything

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  3. Infinite, indeed. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Click here to get the plugin."

  4. Infinite is possible - proof! by mccalli · · Score: 3, Funny
    while(1) {
    fprintf(stdout, "Of course it's possible...\n"); }

    Well, at least until the electricity runs out anyway. Or someone redirects stdout to /tmp. Or, or...

    Well, it's nice theory anyway.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  5. Its reminds me spectrum by Kedder · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember very similar pictures when my zx-spectrum hanged...:)

    Maybe someday BSOD will be considered as an art?

  6. Worst of the Web by Michael's+a+Jerk! · · Score: 4, Funny

    Future artists are advised to take a look at This Site for direction... Enjoy.

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    I'm not Seth.

  7. What HTML? by insin · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about an example of "why HTML could be considered to be art" which actually uses some HTML?

    zomba.com only uses it to embed a flash movie - "Click here to get the plugin". This one belongs in the "post-html" gallery.

  8. ASCII as Art by notestein · · Score: 4, Funny

    I still prefer old school. ASCII as Art.

    The Female Form
    Cinema

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  9. Sound by mike1086 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You need to get some sound dude...it came out in the eighties...man...you're way behind.

    1. Re:Sound by alistair · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually I think sound came out earlier than that, I was born in the late sixties and destinctly remember hearing ABBA records in the 70's, and I have even heard reports that sound was recorded in the 50's and 60's.

  10. Sure? by jotaeleemeese · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can I borrow your aesthetics and ethics meter?

    That objective absolute scale that you found, where did you find it?

    The point I am really trying to make is better explained by the following neo-constructivist abstract post modernist expresion: bullshit.

    Have a nice day.

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    IANAL but write like a drunk one.
  11. Re:Erk? by elementik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its Art.

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