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Dotcom Era Fads
prostoalex writes "Nostalgic USA Today looks at the fads of the dotcom boom era. The Dancing Baby, HamsterDance, I Kiss you dot org and the phrase 'All your base are belong to us' made the list."
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Jobs.
Some days they seem like a thing of the past that might never come back.
Seriously... probly the most seen thing on the internet during the dot come boom...
They set us up the boom...
How many more times am I going to have to forward this darn "5 cents donation for every forward for the liver transplant" email and end this flower to people you love!!! email. I think I am destined to see the Hampster Dance at least once a year for the rest of my life as every female in the world forwards it to me.
in soviet russia, belong to all bases are you.
...they put kibo on this list. I mean, he's not a fad, he's a religion!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Slashdot has now a very large (>700000) number of users. So in the article discussion one is often faced with the fact that you don't really know with what persons you are discussing. This leads very often to misunderstandings and very large flame threads.
However, CmdrTacos innovative programming skills have provided the Slashdot community with the tools to change that. Indeed, the "Zoo" features enable us to create a decent Slashdot census - a source of information where you can get all details of users needed in a serious and sensible discussion.
Of course, the Slashdot census data doesn't pop up from zero tempature vaccum like innocent electrons, we have to do some work to get it.
For this purpose this census coordination account was created. Any Slashdot user who want to participate in the Slashdot census endevour has just to create a census account of his favorite topic like "Linux users", "Mozilla users", "Security experts", "Quantum physicists". See e.g. this BSD user registration account. Then he chooses this coordination account as a friend and is in turn made a friend of this coordination account. As a next step he just marks all users fitting into his census scheme as friends.
Summa summarum gives this a perfect census of the whole slashdot population.
Important notes for getting a useful census:
Grey and orange!
"All" trendy companies of 1999 had sleek logos in grey and orange (oh, yes, I used to work for one of those...).
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
All your base is a fad? I still use it in daily conversation. It's one of the greatest running jokes ever. The guy who wrote this article obviously doesn't know what he's talking about. Kinda like those people that say MP3s were a fad.
ugh.
We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose. We understand that hearing us say this is important to you...
you forgot slashdot you insensitive clod!
fact: microsoft > linux
All Your Base is most definitely post dot.com.
It was early 2001 (sheesh, that long ago?) and it was picked up by the Google Zeitgeist at the time.
Kibology is probably pre-Dot Com as well. Maybe they meant to talk about lavish parties and venture capital being burnt?
At least we never really had a Dotcom era to speak of in New Zealand...
Well I'm still running webcams :)
If only they were holographic...
At least I can make them stereoscopic...
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stereoscopic multimedia pioneer view3d.tv
Goatse, conese and Bathtubgirl. Persuading people to visit random websites has got to have been a dot com pastime. Just look ot the number of people this search brings up.
I am the NUL and the DEL, the beginning and the end.
We forgot about nostalgia for a little while...
Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience, to live through a boom/bust cycle like that. Kindof a Millenium Burnout Party, I guess.
And that's one fad they forgot: the Millenium.
Ceci n'est pas une signature
The theme still lives on popping up on gaming message boards from time to time and providing a good laugh. Also the porn dot cum still lives on. Nostalgic? Yes. Slow Sunday? Yes. Sleepy? Yes. Loser? Yeeeeeeeee (damn 'S' key died on me)
But you are a good old-fashioned karma ho'
All those graphics that say, "Powered by SomeFrigginTechnology(tm)". Sheesh, that is so 1997.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
I was going to reply, but I forgot what you posted.
...but think of all the things that didn't disappear, and should have.
Tierce
Tierce
Who sponsors your feelings?
The site is not slashdotted. "Michael's a Jerk" is a karmawhoring in preparation for trolling. Check his list of recent comments.
Aeron Chairs. 'Nuff said.
for the first time, i actually think that the slashdot submission said everything that was worth saying; there is no need to read the article if you read the submission text :>
so; RTFST!"
mats
One man's ceiling is another man's floor.
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Toaplan creates the Zero Wing video game.
Toaplan releases a port for the Sega Genesis console with the addition of an intro scene, which is then translated into english (very poorly) and released in the United States.
Toaplan goes out of business.
Someone from a Zany Video Game Quotes website notices the poor translation, and highlights the game.
Overclocked.org does a humorous voiceover of the Zero Wing intro in a fake Wayne Newton voice.
Dozens of game-related messageboards begin to post quotes from the parody, and images altered to show the phrase.
Most of the threads lose interest and die off quickly as the trend is pronounced dead countless times.
The Flash movie/video is released with images from the threads and music taken from the origional game someone had added the phrase "all your base" to.
AYB explosively expands to the general (non game messageboard-reading) public.
The origional site for the video is shut down within hours due to excessive traffic, and moves to PlanetStarsiege.
Lycos ponders how "All your Base" was transformed from obscurity to a top 50 search practically overnight.
Mainstream media begin to notice the trend, and stories appear in Time Magazine, USA Today, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, Tech TV, Wired, and many others.
As the 'remix' used in the video goes from 58 hits a day to several thousand per day, mp3.com notices the track has been ripped directly from the video game and pulls the music off their site due to copyright violations. It is later returned unchanged.
The trend continues to grow as it expands into nearly every corner of the web.
Large websites like Angelfire and Hewlett Packard sneak "all your base" references into their designs.
"All Your Base" is pronounced dead several times every day, yet it's 15 minutes of fame continue for some reason...
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All Your Base Are Belong to Us. This is an example of a saying or idea that rockets across the Net and becomes as familiar as an actual person. (The term spam, when used in reference to junk e-mail, is the most famous and successful of these.) The phrase, derived from a bad Japanese-to-English translation in the game Zero Wing, started showing up in the far corners of the Net in 2000 and shot to Web superstardom the following spring. People picked up the phrase and created a panoply of Web sites using it; they built Internet billboards, they morphed photos, they even put together music videos. But like other flashes in the pan, it retreated as quickly as it had appeared. You only wish it retreated as quickly as it had appeared. We were stuck with the links being emailed to us, or posted on our messagesboards, for months, if not years. Hell, people are STILL sending it to me.
Feed the need: Digitaladdiction.net
I suppose that the reason they called it a 'dot com' phenomenon is that it was around then that the internet reached critical mass among users; there were enough to make business viable, and - like spam - inane memes had no problem finding an audience.
/. is no place to talk about the motes in the eyes of others; just consider the linux clusters of natalieportman.cx .
Of course, the internet is perfect for memes like 'all your base' to flourish; it takes no effort to forward an url to everyone you know; I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows at least one individual who regularly sent messages where the To: field was longer than the rest of the message combined. A swift (and usually repeated) larting usually took care of these eventually, but in a lot of cases that just meant that their list was transferred to Bcc: instead.
Two things that I noticed around that time that didn't make the list: The warning about GoodTimes, and the now-legendary one-line email that you had to scroll through eight metres of crap and and a myriad '>>>>>' of variable length in order to read 'Check it out!!!!!!!!!' followed by an asinine url that leaves you wondering why the fuck anyone'd want to send it in the first place, let alone forward it to the universe.
Of course,
What the hell is a 'grit' anyway?
I would've put this on the list -- not because it faded as a result of the dot com bust, but its fading was indicitive of the craziness of the dot-com boom in general.
Sadly, most people have never heard of it now...
Woohoo! Those where the days, everyone and their mom had a job. It was crazy you could graduate from college and find work or you could be old 15 years in the industry and not have your resume flushed for being "too senior" oh ya what a great time.
Ahhh jobs, what a luxury.
Did I miss something ?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
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"All your base" is a fad. It's old. It's not funny any more.
It's obviously funny to some, or they wouldn't be using it any more. If you don't like it, well, don't laugh. Nobody's going to take offense.
I think the whole Am I Hot or Not/Rate my Rack/etc thing should have made the list. Am I Hot spawned a freaking TV show.
Hell, l3375p34| was a fad (well, I *wish* it was a fad...won't go the fuck away). Not sure if it would qualify as a dotcom fad. How about things like The Terrible Secret of Space? And yes, we will always get people who are new to the net (or for the most part, female), that will send us links of pictures, articles, or flash movies, that we've seen countless times. I swear, I'll have kids in 20 years, and they'll come up to me and tell me to come see the funny AYB cartoon on the computer...........
Defender of Microsoft and Communism!!!
Use in every post, for great justice!
What I say!?!?
Someone set us up the long-running gag!
All our taste are belong to bad.
You are not the customer.
I wonder if anyone traced back the sources of the most popular slashdotisms, like the "Dear Apple" or "I am sitting here with my freelance gig" trollings or the "In Soviet Russia" jokes? Anyone knows when the first "First post!" post was posted?
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In Soviet Russia... jokes trace back you.
BTW - what has four legs and flies?
Yep, a dead horse.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
The "Am I Hot" TV show was not a derivitive of the AmIHotOrNot website.
Long before AmIHotOrNot.com - hell, long before there was a WWW (we're talking 1991 and perhaps prior) - Howard Stern's radio show featured a frequent segment called "The Evaluators." Women would come in, typically get naked, and a panel of judges would rate them from 1 to 10. The segment involved the use of a laser pointer with which judges would point to various good/bad parts of the model's body. While the laser pointer obviously did nothing for the radio show, it went over well on the E! channel's TV version of his program.
Enter a man named Scott Einziger. He used to be the producer of the E! television channel's "Howard Stern" show, which features highlights of the radio show. He was also the producer of Howard's short-lived Saturday night show on CBS TV, which was similar to the long-running (and still running) E! show. He was a friend of Howard's, and definitely an insider as far as the radio/TV shows were concerned.
Scott quit working for E! and Howard in 2001, to pursue a career as a "real" network television producer at ABC. His first gig was as co-producer of "The Amazing Race," ABC's attempt at reality TV. This year, ABC introduced "Am I Hot?" Scott Einziger, ex-Stern-groupie, was the producer. The show was a complete and total rip of the Stern segment, right down to the laser pointers. The entire concept of the "Am I Hot?" TV show was taken from Howard Stern. The AmIHotOrNot website had absolutely nothing to do with it.
And now you know the rest of the story.
Speaking of hot or not, Rate Naked People at Fuck Meter! (not work-safe)
I remembered that if I didn't have X software, I wasn't cool enough...
1. Microsoft Windows 98
2. AOL 3.0
Please add more =)
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Thanks to our low-mortgage, you can now enlarge your penis and obain a free degree! Forward this email to at least ten people, then click that funny URL, and when you're done closing pop-ups, make a whish. Fads. Yay.
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
I remember tons of these "X ate my balls" webpages in the early days of free webhosting.
I thought it was dead but I guess not: 7 of 9 ate my Balls
Not confused enough? http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.slashdot.jp&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=ja&tl=en
So...it's similar to a clue-by-four then.
There was the Exploding Whale
Sanity is the trademark of a weak mind. -- Mark Harrold
What if we make a beowulf cluster of all our base? Then we could simulate pouring hot grits down natalie portman's pants in soviet russia.
Donate free food here
nuff said
Or would that be pre-dot com?
Just because the buzz has died down and people still use it, does not discount the fact that in 1999 it was a huge fad (that disappeared once people started losing their jobs).
as can be clearly seen from this microsoft image:
l over_4.gif
http://www.microsoft.com/Office/clippy/images/rol
(official site here)
Obviously, the autor of the article has NO IDEA what he's talking about.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!
WHOHOOOOOOO!!!! ZERO WING RULZ!
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
I've been a hardcore netizen since 1998, when I used to dial up from my uncle's home to a text-only shell account with a 1,500 bps modem :-) I remember waiting minutes to download a single JPEG file, then transferring it to my local machine using Kermit, and opening it up in Internet Explorer 3.0 on Windows 95, only to realise that it's the wrong one! Those were the days when I learnt to use Pine and Lynx, my favourite mail/www combo.
Those were the days of Internet success stories: ICQ, Napster, Winamp. Remember ShellSock?
In a perfect geek encounter, I met bluesmoon on comp.lang.java. Google didn't even exist back then.
Now, when I look around, I see "techies" with 5-10 years of experience in the software industry and no clue what All Your Base... means :-) Clearly, these guys have been here for the money. I, however, am here because I love it. The Internet is changing lives, and I want to be responsible for some of it. Somebody give me that perfect job! :-D
You must be the best of the best, able to command a high rate, and now Java technology inside out, to the kernal (sic.) level. $$competetive.
Now if you really were a Java Guru you certainly wouldn't need a stupid recruitment agency to get you work. Daft recruitment Ads top my list of tiresome dotcom fads.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
When I first connected in late 1992 / 1993, there was _no_ World Wide Web.
ftp and telnet were your best friend.
You think it was bad downloading the wrong image ? Wait until you do a ftp file transfer in ascii when it should have been binary.
What about the Big Red Button that doesn't do anything?
Truly a timeless classic.
This was early 2000, so it still qualifies as a dot-com fad.
In comparison, consider this usage from 1961, as quoted in the OED:-
That's right folks; before 1990's, a 'geek show', ie, shows by " a carnival 'wild man' whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake" (Webster; quoted again at the same OED link) meant a 'freak show'.
More than mere navel gazing.
I think this 'All your base are belong to us' was more of a bad case of post-dot-com-era-hangover.
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various cybercultural oddities (a.k.a. memes) over the years have made a fleeting impact on Net culture
I didn't think a meme was a cybercultural oddity. I thought it was a (usually false) idea whose character was to spread through human consciousness in a viral manner (e.g. - all small bandages are Band Aids (tm), the SR-71's fuel is the consistency of peanut butter, etc.).
This brings up a question. Has the idea of a meme become a meme?
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
"But like other flashes in the pan, it retreated as quickly as it had appeared."
ohhhh don't i wish! When i don't here this phrase 10 times a day I'll finally be able to take the plugs out of my ears
They missed out gonads and strife!
I can't think of anything witty right now
They set us up the boom
In Zero Wing, the preposition comes before the direct object.
They set up us the boom is more correct.
Sheesh, me to need publish grammar?
Many of these great things can be found at:
ebaumsworld and maybe many new fads?:)
they missed the yourname.isgay.com. Man, now THAt was a fad
Just a guy with an opinion
The Dot Com days made many changes to the work place which are both positive and negative.
Many of the positives which have been fading, taken away or restricted
Very relaxed dress code (shorts, jeans, sandals, hiking boots/sneakers)
Telecommuting
Flex Time ( work longer on Mon/Tue, take Fri off)
In-house gourmet lunches
Game room and outdoor games
Few of the negatives which are now flourishing
Oursourcing to India
H1-B Visas
Corporate executives throwing their weight around by reducing pay, taking away benefits such as flex time, telecommuting, vacations
One company that epitomizes the positives is Google's Culture. They are one of the few Dot Com type companies still around.
On the dress code, many companies have brought back dress codes especially the legal and finance industry. Where I work at, we are subcontrctors to Boeing on a government contract. Their top manager has a strict dress policy of having to wear a tie, slacks and dress shoes. This means no jeans along with hiking boots/sneakers/tennis shoes. This dress code even applies on trips on weekends and if you come in on a Saturday. Their work hours are strict 8 to 5. Those rules don't apply to us, YET ! There are rumblings in the Boeing group to force us to comply with those rules since they hold the purse strings. I take Thursday and Friday afternoons off just about every week but Monday and Tuesday are long days though. I also wear jeans everyday as well. We are in one of the top outdoor recreational states of Colorado.
Part of the rumblings in Boeing to force us to comply with their rules caused a few problems for me. Back in June/July, I took 4 weeks vacation to do some traveling, go see family and one of the Managers in Boeing told me to cancel my vacation since my focus should be on working instead of taking time off that I have earned and I told him I did not answer to him and he got irate. He told me I will pay for my attitude. The same person got pissed when I happen to be around on Friday all day that they cannot get any work done because of our flex time policy. One of their computers at 4pm went down and the person who can call in left at 11 am. He was demanded that the computer get fixed this instant. He made the comment that we are lazy since we take Friday afternoon off. He fired off some complaints to their top executives.
At Oracle which is in Colorado Springs, they started to restrict people from telecommuting who live within 50 miles of the company building. Last I heard, there is talk to take it away. Those who live in different Mountain towns may have to move if they want to keep their job.
Wow. 4 whole "Dot.com" fads. Wheeeee. Now that's what I call 'thorough'
Here's a dot-com fad that hasn't gone away just yet: The Dumbing down of the internet.
On the page announcing Clippy's untimely death on Microsoft.com, he was quoted,/a> as saying "All your base are belong to us" :)
I remember the first time I used the web. It was with an all text browser over a 2400 baud connection back before there really was a Netscape. I didn't really see how it was any different than Gopher. At the time there wasn't all that many websites and there wasn't yet a real index or search engine so it really seemed like a Gopher clone.
Of course it didn't take long to figure out some interesting uses the web had over Gopher. I had an interesting website that used RIP graphics. It only worked if you were dialed-in using RIPTerm and using a text browser. Still it predated Flash by a lot. At that point I hadn't even used a graphical browser yet so I thought it was pretty clever having graphics and animations.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Despite having Internet access at the time, I never heard of the Dancing Baby until it was mentioned on Ally McBeal (which I do not watch) or included on some crappy cover CD.
As far as I can tell it was a Windows executable which people sent to each other, and which when run displayed an animation of... a dancing baby.
Now unquestioningly running executables that people send you is not a good practice. But the Dancing Baby would encourage people to get into this bad habit because otherwise... well, you don't get to see the baby.
So it could be argued that the DB messages are indirectly responsible for Sobig and other worms.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
when the Lipgloss Assassin herself went off the air... Sigh...
But who can forget Bubb Rubb?
Wooo wooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
In Soviet Russia, I for one welcome a beowulf cluster of all your base!
They forgot one other fad: Mr.T Ate My Balls (and original site). I have to admit, I never got that one.
It's better to burn out than to fade away
That's where I buy my beer!
Thankyou God :-D
in my life God comes first.... but Linux is pretty high after that
Francis Smit
I'm not sure Nostalgic is the right word to use for something that happened less than half a decade ago.
Yatta!
(Hey, it seems appropriate for this story)
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
Does anyone remember this series of shorts? Heck, I'll bet the author reads or has posted on /. before. I remember stumbling on the link and spending an afternoon clicking through the chapters. I believe it became a book at one point, but is still available at Salon at http://archive.salon.com/21st/follies/about/about. html with just a single banner ad, and is not "Salon Premium" content.
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Silicon Follies is a serial comedy about life, work, love and war in Silicon Valley that follows six characters as they become, or attempt to become, masters of their domains.
The Characters:
Paul Armstrong
Silicon Valley software contractor who, at the ripe age of 28, finds himself burned out, disaffected and haunted by the creeping feeling that a career in the infotech industry may not be much of a life to speak of.
Steve Hall
Paul's childhood friend, master programmer and hacker extraordinaire. Disdains all forms of industrial software development. Believes that all software development should be left to True Hackers and other artists. Revels in taunting "the man," his catch-all nickname for all clueless personnel in commercial computing outfits. Spends his spare time puncturing firewalls.
Liz Toulouse
Recent Stanford University liberal arts graduate, reluctantly employed as a marketing associate in a major Silicon Valley company, infuriated by legions of young male techies earning four times her salary while being unable to deploy verbs properly in a written sentence.
Laurel Waites
Liz's classmate, roommate and confidante. Unwilling to throw her own humanities degree on the bonfire of infotech, she has settled for work as a caterer and waitress in a fashionable Silicon Valley eatery popular with the venture capital/IPO crowd.
Barry Dominic
Megalomaniacal founder and CEO of TeraMemory Inc. Billionaire, workaholic, tyrant, misogynist. Pursues hobbies of extremely expensive and highly visible nature.
Kiki Dominic
Barry's mysterious and estranged wife.
Psychrist
Cybernetic infiltrator/provocateur/performance artist. The ballistic nature of his work guarantees a large following among Silicon Valley's nerds, techies and otherwise culturally challenged males -- technological demolition derby as conceived by Umberto Eco.
Michael C. Hollinger
Please mods this is just a "lets pander to a stereotype" twaddle. If him and his workmates actually went around putting on Asian accents, then, well that's really sad.
Not so say quite offensive.
"It's not your information. It's information about you" - John Ford, Vice President, Equifax
Scooters. I could literally guess the number of IPOs that had gone through the week before by the number of goateed laptop toters who'd get off the CalTrain and whip out a razor scooter to zip off to work. Man I hated those things.
Whiny Artsy Fartsy tech worker: Seems every company had a few of these sneak in, whether they were .com or not. You know, the people who went clubbing, wore tortise shell glasses, had a couple piercings and the aforementioned goatee and razor scooter (maybe an off shoulder GAP bag), and seemed more intent on cultivating their indie MP3 collection and bitching about the selection of free fruit juices than anything else. I think a lot of them were art directors, web designers or in marketing.
The Battle For Rent: Trying to get a place to rent back then was a nightmare. I swear it was like auditioning for television. Your prospective room-mates would interview you for half an hour, asking all kinds of invasive questions, down to what kind of websites do you visit. Then when I finally found a place, I saw what it was like from the other side of the coin. Placed an ad to get a new room-mate, bam, 250 applications. It was insane. I even got three or four "room-mate resumes" listing their achievements and why they would make an excellent room-mate. This lack of housing in SF even led to the evil room-mates who would charge their new room-mate 90% of the rent...
The Job Offers: I kid you not, people would offer you jobs via email. It was nuts. Every week people would be ditching the company to go to some other .com and get a big fat raise. I remember being hired by a company and seeing the person who hired me, who talked about how they'd stay there forever during my interview process, bail a few weeks later. At a certain point I was convinced a chimp who knew how to type could get a job at a .com. Maybe I thought this because of those aforementioned Scooter Riders in Marketing.
the dot in dotcom? If the dot com era was a fad why is Sun still around?
It was the media that ran the dotcomcrash financial reports, before the market crashed. Remember that the media is owned by about 6 companies. And they don't like competition.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
Yes!It's been a long time since I read one of those "I just spent a weekend trying to get on this Information Superhighway thing..." articles. Thank God. My mom made a habit of clipping 'em and sending them to me. Oh, look. Another idiot explaining that the first thing you need is an AOL disk and a modem.
Unfortunately, now we're starting to see the flipside, such as this idiot who thinks the Internet was spawned in 1995 and "frankly, the whole thing is starting to get a bit old anyway." Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
that forgets Mr. T and the other Ate My Balls websites.
That joke lasted quite a while.
I thought this would have been one of the fads. Maybe it wasn't as big as the others. I LIEK MILK!!!!!!!
yuo = /D0773D!
In vermont, on the other hand, the gas stations sold single beers and i was allowed to work in a microbrewery at the age of 18. Go figure!
"I'd say 'Have a good time,' but arson is still illegal.
being a prick
What the hell is a 'grit' anyway?
And what does this have to do with Natalie Portman. The slashdot search function fails me.
While you're at it, what is a "LART"? Is it like a clue stick? Which should be applied first, and when?
Mods are on crack. These comments are right on target. Good thing idiot moderation is so predictable, or the posters might have lost some karma.
That's because it'
s been September for at least 5 years now, maybe longer. I keep getting the same stuff every time a new relative gets connected. Thank God for Snopes as a place to send these people every time I get a cookie recipie email.
Ah yes, grey and orange!
And while these slick companies faded away, I still have my lovely uber-chic "Big Soft Orange" poster from the CCAC art exhibition of the same name (in 1999, no less), designed and hand-printed by John Santos.
It's a symphony of grey and orange, a print made from 23 different hand-cut pieces of film, each one a slightly different color (of grey or orange). Now it hangs on my wall as a beautiful, permanent reminder of the dot-com era.
Free yourself. Everything else will follow.
I once went to Turkey. I was enjoying the hot springs of somewhere-or-other, when suddenly a hundred tour buses of lardy morons showed up, bussled around rudely, farted a lot and then got back in their coaches and left. The place felt a lot better once they'd all fucked off and the bad smell had faded.
Didn't google archive the previous site :P
:-) I had a t-shirt made :P
Where are all the pictures with other random Turkish people ?
and yes
That's right... They forgot the epitome of fads. The one that scares the living daylight out of kids and adults alike....
goats*e`.cx
eTrade SUCKS
I hope you can get a good job netbacking it for a outsourcing firm, and if you like the US better than where ever you are from I hope you can eventually come here and stay. I deplore the racism that has been brought to the surface since jobs tightened up a bit. I believe in open borders around the world -- anyone should be able to live where ever they want, as long as they can support themselves there.
Holy crap. I had no idea "jenni" from jennicam.org works at my work! Now I can REALLY be a Sysadmin from hell!
Hmmmm...where are all these .cons [sic] today? Still living high off the hog in their multi-million dollar mansions after having their companies fold. They never created anything, got cash by lying and dumb luck, and still think they are hot sh&t- go figure. Never trust any of them again, especially other companies that hire them.
Ate my balls
Hamster
Jar Jar Binks and
Napster
Clinton's caught
Indy rock
Gothic phase
Hot Bot
Hubble
Reno
AOL
I Love You and
Online sales
Ellen's sexuality
Gates' culpability
Buy Dot Com, Force Dot Net
Larry needs a new jet
Slashdot and it's flame wars!
I can't take it anymore!
(And a few verses I've been thinking about but don't quite fit)
EFF
War on drugs
Bobbit's penis
Peet's
Starbucks
LCD
Spike TV
Jolt Cola caffeine
Linux vs. BSD
C++ and PHP
Apple uses Unix
Sorenson vs. DivX
Coleman vs. Schwarzenneger
Bob Hope says 'I'll see you later'
President's an idjit
Rice a mental midget
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the worlds been turning!
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it but we're trying to fight it
Useless opinions, worthless observations, and more!
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." -- William Shakespeare, (1564-1616) Poe
And the #1 dot com era fad is:
slashdot.org !
Only problem is, the Linux-on-the-brain deebs that hang out there haven't figured it out yet...
'Nuh said about the Texas exhibitionist.
Seems Queensland judges agree theres not much good in One Nation, the two remaining leaders, including the reprehensible Pauline were just jailed for three years for electoral fraud.