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Top 10 Web Fads
Fantasy Football writes "CNet lists the top 10 web fads of all-time, including the HampsterDance, All Your Base are Belong to Us, Star Wars Kid, and more. It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago."
Goatse.cx was a pretty popular fad around here
I frequently visit http://www.archive.org/ to pull up sites no longer available. They typically have the content of sites, less the images.
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
1. The HampsterDance
2. Mahir
3. All Your Base
4. Dancing Baby
5. Hot or Not
6. Friendster
7. Ellen Feiss
8. Star Wars Kid
9. Blogger
10. JibJab
Fantasy Football
weblogging.
Says the RIAA: When you EQ, you're stealing bass!
How could a list like this leave out "Hello My Future Girlfriend"?
First post isn't really a web fad. Read .
I remember this page that had this "gigolo" from the Phillipines (trademark slogan above) and I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was real, too. The fact that it was mirrored on 10 different servers was just a coincidence.
A slashdot story which is about stories already covered on slashdot.
;)
Since this hasn't been posted before, what is it, a meta-dupe?
Is it safe to call "RealAudio" a fad yet?
Top 10 Things We Wish People Would Stop Putting On Web Sites
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10: Pictures of pets
9: Really bad rhyming poetry
8: Really bad Haiku
7: Some joke someone e-mailed them
6: The word "cool"
5: 18 endlessly looping animated
4: Pictures of ugly people naked
3: Their contribution to the Kirk Vs. Picard debate
2: Terrible, error-ridden, fan fiction
1: TOP 10 LISTS!!!!!!!
Start a happiness pandemic
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1. Slashdot
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Ugh. Every time I think I have forgotten about that Mahir guy, someone always has to link to that scary Speedo pic... *shudder*
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago.
Fantasy Football is such a dupetease.
Yeah, I do think I remember seeing a few of these on slahdot before. What is it with all these dupes lately? ;)
It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago."
Some of them many, many, times...
On the brighter side, if this comment fares well, I can post it again when this article gets duped.
I wonder how long until Leeroy makes it to this status... /shudder
I can't believe that didn't make the top ten.
James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
Everyone and their brother / sister running Google Ads, Amazon book links, all that crap that results in a a check for 65 cents...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
What's a hampster? You mean hamster?
rooooar
Viral memes are a hoax, pass it on.
I figured The Best Page In the Universe (Maddox) would have been noted somewhere in there :)
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
the sad thing is, i actually remember every single one of those fads when they first popped up. *especially* the annoying Hampsterdance. ~dee ba dee be dee ba dee bu dee bada bee boo, dee ba dee ba dee ba dee ba dee doo~
Along this theme, let's start a Slashdot Top 10, featuring the best (and worst) overused Slashdot cliches.
Let's get this started:
Hot grits
In Soviet Russia...
Goatse.cx
Stephen King, DEAD at 42
The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
I still have their refridgerator magnets and magnet shopping lists. God, how I loved Webvan. And the bins are still great...
I don't understand how you managed to write "King of Chaos" (singular) in both the comment and title, and still manage to get the URL correct (plural).
One that will be on the list soon is the "We aren't scared" website, where people send in pictures of them holding signs saying they are not scared. As soon as a little time passes, everyone is going to forget it until the next attack.
Voice your opinion!
no "MEGACAR"?!!?
..
you can't tell me this is a top-10 list without having the megacar.. you just can't. i remember the web in the 90's. megacar was the best thing going
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
I was in high school when it hit big time (before the hammer came down when you could get any song you wanted in like 30 seconds) and it got EVERYONE using their computer: jocks, cheerleaders, etc.
1. It's a trap!
2. The "HA! HA!" quaker guy from hetemeel.com.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
Missing Option:
Numa Numa
what about this one? http://www.mulletsgalore.com/
Spongebabies (rathergood.com)
Homestar Runner. Come on now, I see Trogdor EVERYWHERE.
Livejounral: I feel that Livejournal has much more... Feeling than Blogger. I mean, Blogger is blogging. Livejournal is... Emo teens. Or at least more emo teens. Whatever.
Goatse.cx: Nuff said.
The Numa Numa kid.
Every time you Masturbate God kills a kitten.
Myspace/Facebook. They are both as valid as Friendster, I feel.
Oh like Jennicam shouldn't be on the top 10 web fad list!
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It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago.
most of it was posted twice.
A site with dupes?
I cant believe the apple ad was on there, but the Bert is Evil site was not. http://www.bertisevil.tv/ This was the first website I remember really being something everyone heard of, whether they were on the internet at that time or not.
Sugapablo
Man, HampsterDance was so freakin' 1337 back in the day. Ah nostalgia.
I cant belive you got 2nd.... I feel so terrible with only 3rd. :/
Often with yellow or orange signs to indicate that a web site is under construction. Talk about old school...
..is Ellen Feiss legal yet? :)
What about the Numa-Numa dance, the fad that became so popular that the guy who started it overflowed the sign bit straight from ecstatic joy into deep depression. Look, guys, the popularity counter has to get pretty big to overflow the sign bit.
Cracks me up everytime.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
Whatever happened to push technology?
Some of those things lasted too long in my opinion to be a fad. If it's popular for more then 2 years, it's no longer a fad, it is a phenomona.
Don't forget...The Oficial Ninja Webpage: REAL Ultimate Power!
:
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
--
Check out the Uncyclopedia.org
The only wiki source for politically incorrect non-information about things like Kitten Huffing and Pong! the Movie !
Please allow me to hate the creator of the 120-character limit: *HATES*. Thank you.
Anyone remember him? I was surprised to not find him on the list. Didn't leave his house for a year and relied on the net for everything he needed.
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,40940,00
I figured I was pretty well tuned in to the web, but I hadn't heard of about three of those things before?
Is it a poor list, or am I really just out of the loop?
Your mammas flamebait.
i miss the old uglypeople.com :(
What about posting an article about the Top 10 Slashdot Trolls!
(in no particular order)
10. Crapfloods
9. Goatse
8. GNAA
7. Grammar Nazis
6. Netcraft confirms it
5. Stephen King is dead
4. Dupe!
3. When I was your age
2. I fail it!
1. Frost Pist!
Since we haven't had "all-time" yet I think the list is a bit premature!
AT&ROFLMAO
But this list is crap. Forgetting realultimatepower.net but making HampsterDance #1?
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For great justice, Hampton, I being your father!
The difference between spam and poop is that you don't have to dig through septic tanks looking for real food. -- Me
badger badger badger
mushroom! mushroom!
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
That stupid Peter Pan guy?
SaveKaren?
Subservient Chicken?
I never heard of "Hampster Dance" or Ellen Feiss, but am familiar with the rest - does that mean I lose my Geek Cred? What's the minimum number of fads you have to have heard of to be pop-culture aware? (at least as far as the internet goes...)
all hail the lowest common denominator :homer simpson's best web page ever:
Don't forget about:
The Mustard Man
The Wary Fat Kid
Badger Badger Badger
I'm sure there are tons more, but I just can't think of them at the moment.
And they said zombies weren't real!
1) The oft-offensive video/image dumping grounds of Adorable Bunnies, and...
2) Homestar Runner! How could anyone forget Homestar? This site spawned such classics as "The Cheat is not dead" and "Peasant's Quest" featuring Trogdor, the Burninator (and it's catchy theme song (/burninating the peasants/who live in thatch roof cottages!!/)). If you don't know what the hell I'm talking about: Homestar Runner Wiki
11. Zombo Com
cpeterso
The original site is down, but it's mirrored here
http://zmax.org/supergreg/sgdotcom/
And so many fan sites
http://www.joenapier.com/supergregfan/
http://jokes.cypressmedia.com/supergreg.htm
Why isn't C|Net lsited as a fad? When was the last time it was relevant?
And what about Flash? Surely the entire "Skip Intro" thing was just a crazy designer fad and not a sign of a glaringly usability flaw?
An what about this "teh" thing I keep on seeing. Surely that is one of those mad acronyms that the kids use?
C'mon, how could they forget the Superfriends "Wassssup" commerical...that thing spread like wildfire.. I was dying the first time i saw that...
You can fool some of the people all of the time
Aw you arent any fun! I mean this is /. for crying out loud!
We've seen this on slashdot here
Well since we're talking about stupid lists, I feel compelled to share my list of Signs you're an idiot on Slashdot.
I can't belive the one site that has EVERYTHING one could ever ever want isn't included.
That site: zombo.com
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
I've seen many variations posted here on /. in regards to the topic at hand, and they crack me up every time. Keep 'em coming, guys :)
http://zombo.com/
[n8.r0n] http://petesweb.spymac.net/
I'd say it is a pretty popular fad around here.
Wikipedia article
Gravity Sucks
this is slashdot not fark
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Super Greg
Broken to learn it was all a hoax by lee...
OMG You are so 1337 for being a totalfarker. I want to have like, 1000 of your children.
Grow the fuck up. What's with people feeling all big and mighty because they pay for extra content on a website?
Cause you know, I heard your e-penis is longer when you are a totalfarker.
Wikipedia's list of Internet phenomenons.
:wq
* Though I normally dislike the use of this term, in this case it's the only word I can come up with to accurately describe the cacophony that is in my head right now.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
I remember Bonsai Kitten. All the ladies in the office were so mad about this back in the day.
Hard to believe they missed my favorite..
http://www.yourethemannowdog.com/
(and the related http://www.itsatrap.net/
The guy actually built a site where you can come up with your own, using templates and wildcard subdomains..
http://www.ytmnd.com/
There is some hilarious stuff on there..
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
You're the man now dog! ytmnd.com
What about the I LIEK MILK site? That was huge in the gaming community in 98/99.
http://www.generation.nl/~hitoshi/
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. --Winston Churchill
http://www.bonsaikitte.com/
PS: my confirm word was "discord"!
my top 10 list: goatse AYBABTU whistle tips Starwars kid i think that's it. those have all been remixed in some way or another. I guess I could add DeCSS to the list to make it 5. I guess I'm listing memes or phenomenoms, not just fads like hotornot and realultimatepower or popular sites like slashdot and ebay.
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
First Post is a fad, according to this wikipedia article.
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Strange, the article mentions Blogger as a Fad -- blogging certainly was (and is) no "fad" since it picked up like anything. Much like the way google or apple ipod or even slashdot got popular and became a mainstay.
As wikipedia puts it -- A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically
Find some fads here and here.
--I'm a sig,& I'm a fad.
This guy who had a website..... might havebeen from hungary... was always talking about loving america and coming to have sex with our women and things....
Put the Fark kitten/domokun and the official Ninja webpage on instead of Friendster and Jib Jab, and move #2 down a bit... Otherwise, CNet came close to a good top 10 list.
Ok, so for some of us it's a way of life instead of a fad.
(May the karma gods have mercy on my soul)
indeed
The "Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten" image with domokuns chasing a kitten didn't make the list either.
In Lynx, none of these site make into my top 10 list. ASCI art is where it's at.
One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
What the hell is Jibjab? (well okay, that's a rhetorical question, I know what it is now). All those other 9 fads I remember foundly, but it seems like the only reason they put that one on there was to make a good closer. Jibjab hardly seems fad-worthy.
& I wish I knew the password to your heart . . . &
Linux
Pavarotti Loves Elephants
Singing Horses
DengDeng
Weeks of coding saves hours of planning.
http://sveedin.freespaces.com/ SVEEDIN 4EVAR!!!
How could they forget him?
Timo's Audio Software http://www.esseraudio.com
You forgot Penis Bird.
The Angry Alien Productions.
Including the classic:
The Exorcist (in 30 seconds, and re-enacted by bunnies)
Titanic (in 30 seconds, and re-enacted by bunnies)
(you get the idea)
Here's a cruel joke to play on stoner friends.
Find some stoned college students. Point them to the Badgerbadgerbadger site. Tell them that the end of the video is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY funny!
Come back two hours later, see that they still staring at the screen, and have a good chuckle with them.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
Somewhere around 1999 or so I worked with relnev, (Steven Fuller http://icculus.org/~relnev/) to make a homebrew demo of the Hamster dance on the Gameboy Color. I re-drew the tiles and we converted the sound clip into a format that could be played on the Gameboy Color. And on the faithful day we saw the fruits of our efforts......I still can't bring myself to use a Gameboy.
"Mr. T vs." websites
"Ate my Balls" websites
Time Cube
Alex Chiu
Micropayments
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
What about people posting crudy pictures of themselves and asking millions of strangers to rate them solely on their looks?
This was even turned into a TV reality show so bad that it was canceled after a couple episodes.
And of course they missed the Ballmer dancing monkeyboy thing, probably because of the potential lawsuits.
The Independent: Reverend Spooner Arrested in Friar Tuck Incident - ISIHAC, Historical Headlines
In addition to being a year older (June 2-15, 2004 issue) than this one, SeanBaby's is shitloads more entertaining. Top 10 Internet Fads
This is not the greatest sig in the world, no. This is just a tribute.
Anyone remember the 5,000 "Ate My Balls" websites?
Mr. T Ate My Balls!
Lion-o Ate My Balls!
Darth Vader Ate My Balls!
Erkel Ate My Balls!
Ronald McDonalad Ate My Balls!
WTF was that all about???
Lot's of people are getting tired of this particular fad.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Does anyone else remember the Amish Rake Fight URL that was used on Usnet and forums?
You'd click it and get the big 'ol FU.
"Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."
That site used to be awesome.... primarily because it sucked.
Now it's loaded with hot graphics, new and improved "hampsters," remixed music, etc. Heck, even the old archived site has hot sidebar graphics and new music.
What a way to kill a joke.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Why isn't that there?
... bah, this is just what C|Net thinks are the top-10 web-fads.
There are so many other's as well!
Mahir I haven't even heard of
They forgot Strong Bad! I dunno, but putting up a list without him sounds kinda.....Dangeresque
Frog in a blender (You have no balls!)
:^) tsk tsk.
Oh and there's no "pee" in "hamster"
What about Hillary's Hair? This what a web site in the middle 90's that kept track of Hillary Clinton's hairdos and allowed you to vote for your favorite. Don't go to hillaryshair.com now since it is a porno web site. Or maybe you want to!
Yeah, I would like to be in a tub with tubgirl!
The best thing ever.
Septembers that had only 30 days, last seen in 1992.
USENET, 1980-something until spam ruined it in 1994. Wait, that's too long to be a fad.
Internet Coffee Web-cam, early-mid-1990s.
KREMVAX hoax, until it became real.
Dejanews, oh wait, that's now part of Google Groups.
Any other major fads before 1998?
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Or at least if you were bored on the web circa 1994, you may recall the The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything! I think that was the earliest web fad that I was privy to.
-DaveR
The list is a little odd because they start with several memes that grew organically and caught on and then they started mentioning whole companies or sites. That Top 10 is really two lists.
In addition to goatse.cx, my new girlfriend and Bert Is Evil, which were already mentioned. I would add the Elian-Budweiser flash and the Metallica - Beer Good! Napster Bad! flash.
And who the hell would put Hampsterdance first? BTW, can anyone name the source of the music from Hampsterdance? Hint: I think it's from a Disney film.
10 web fads top you!
(i'm learning)
stinkymeat.net
Vader doesn't make the list?
NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
"you're the man now dawg"
'nuff s......
Atlas Shrugged : Thematic Story
The Dell dude doesn't count?
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
You're the man now Dog!.
What, nobody mentioned Summoner Geeks?.
:(
"Roll to see if I get laid!!!"
Sorry for the ifilm link. I used to have a slashdot-proof server to host videos on, but I no longer work there.
Nothing to see here
#1) Goatse
#2) Hamsterdance
#3) All Your Base are Belong To Us
#4) Mahir
#5) The 12 year old boy looking for love
#6) Your the Man Now Dogg
#7) Tubgirl
#8) Hot or Not AND EVERY SINGLE SPINOFF
#9) Every single flash animation that made you stare at something for 30 seconds before unleashing a short burst of hell to scare you
#10) The forum post that linked infinitately to other forum posts.
Now thats a real list.
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
the "Top 10" web fad.
I Browse at +4 Flamebait
Open Source Sysadmin
http://www.rotten.com/
http://www.mullet.com/
Can't find the flash movie anywhere.
i think it was called doodie. Flash comic about #2 very funny every time every week
sweet
The Effects of Alcohol and Smoking on Peeps
Yes, the marshmallow kind.
I'd like to dip my balls in that.
It's pretty much getting to be the same people anymore on both boards.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
The article was about "Internet fads" - not FARK fads. :)
Your typical office woman was likely to have seen/forwarded the link to hampsterdance, but as far as myspace & Homestar Runner? I don't think so.
One of the biggest pickup lines in the Bay Area for ages was "Hey.. are you on Friendster?"
(sad but true)
What about those text image generators like the church announcement board? Over on Fark the current and most annoying one is the HA-HA man, a laughing Quaker-type guy who says whatever you want. There's also Albert Einstein writing your text on a chalkboard. hetemeel.com - don't say I didn't warn you.
I can remember actually laughing at those little rodents dancing. Now, it's annoying.
...must be getting old. (sigh)
<g>
Remember when those sites were popular?
Meh.
I can't wait for that freakin' frog to go the same way. They are planning for a movie, a TV series - you name it - not realising that it's just one more of those things that are funny for five minutes and gets old *very* fast.
Die froggy, die!
This article is just one big collective dupe? :P
I am really bummed that supergreg #1 did not get on the list.
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
It took weeks to get that out of my head. For your head asploding pleasure: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php
Shoulda made the top 10.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
"It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago."
/. is - they'll probably get posted as new articles again. and again....
And the great thing about
Don't forget the latest one:
http://www.bringbackthecouch.com/
...caling people homophobes when they object to it.
Ron dies in chapter 9 of book 7.
I mean, I don't think she was a fad. But she is really hot. And yeah, I do go for stoner chicks.
http://ellenfeiss.net/
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990429045319/http://h ampsterdance.com/
And by all time we of course mean seven years.
Can't believe chonky:
http://www.insaneclips.com/chonky.php
isn't on the list
Maybe I am showing my age... But where are the real, proper web fads... The Big Red Button, and the coffee pot web cam... *sigh*
I'm rather disappointed "Hatten Ar-Din" didn't make the cut.
I used to love Argon Zark. Nobody talks about that great comic artistry, but then again, I don't think the artist updates the site like he used to.
alt.cascade
Telnet access to libraries.
Gopher.
FTPMail.
UUCP.
ISDN.
Hmm, I guess these aren't really web fads, though...
Because face it, someone always disagrees (maybe the next poll should be "Top Web Fad.")
10.) The hampster dance (much as I hate it, a lot of other people watch it)
9.) myspace
8.) Hot or Not
7.) Homestar Runner
6.) Red vs. Blue
5.) Blogger (aka "Not worth reading")
4.) Craigslist
3.) Googlebombing (see # 5)
2.) Ebay
and also winning the prizes for "Most annoying" and "Dumbest"...
1.) AOL'ese, hacker'ese, and other condensed "languages"
They left out Bubb Rubb and Lil'Sis from 2003. WOOOOOOWOOOOOOO!!!
Real Ultimate Power was almost in the "All Your Base" class. I'm amazed it wasn't up in the top 10, and it certainly qualified as more of a fad than Friendster, which is more like a permanent fixture (among 12-year-old Asian girls, that is).
Real Ultimate Power was cool, and yes, by cool I mean totally sweet.
There's no sig like this sig anywhere near this sig, so this must be the sig.
Well since I got raped by a modder and there's nothing worse you can do to me, allow me to retort.
Fuck you, modder. I posted this before seeing the other post that got modded to the heavens. I'd rather you go jam four fingers up your anus. Probably do you better anyways. Bitch.
http://zombo.com/
It still rox. Or maybe not. I don't remember.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Old people in Korea
But does in run Linux?
"Obligitory" references to Simpsons, Monty Python, and the like.
I guess someone's making money - from all the
innocent clicking (by some SlashDot readers) -
on one of the three sample-site links in this
article.
One of them has powerful magic... warning of
Spyware & trying to peddle removal software.
Clicking on or just sends
someone some click-rewards, and it's not clear
how to make the sucker-prompts go away (in Opera)
I'll likely have to cut my Internet connection,
stop the program & get back on the 'net.
Shouldn't have to do this; Opera Developers are
your listening...
WE should have the power to close ANY browser
window, withouth having to do all this!
In fact, ALL browser developers should take this
to heart...!
I remember you could download a script from NBCi.com that actually tried to turn EVERY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN INTO A HYPERLINK...the most worthless piece of free software I have ever seen on the web.
Chalupa
And will no doubt be posted again in coming years, months or days.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone post the Gonads and Strife page: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/weeee.php/
A definate canidate for top 20 list IMHO
The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Calvin & Hobbes
The sound effect in a flash animation of a honda civic vs a gti. The animation itself made it around quite a bit, but the sound effect of the honda has been used all over the place. Seriously, I've even heard that sound in a commercial!
Kiteboarding Gear Mention slashdot and get 10% off!
I don't know what fad is (not English speaker), but according to the list, this site could qualify: TimeCube. It has a wikipedia entry.
DNA in your Linux: DNALinux
For web fads, don't forget Bonsai Kitten. This site has complete instructions for making square-shaped house pets.
Seriously this must Die! I can handle occasionally seeing it online, but my children actually vocalize it.
Emoticons ('.')
Aww that one's cute.
Free Personal Websites w/banners & popups everywhere.
Still got yours?
News on Slashdot.
Heh,Heh...
OSGGFG - Open Source Gamers Guide to Free Games
I second that. For those who don't remember this classic Sung-in-Arabic-that-Sounds-Kind-of-Like-Swedish (if-you're-drunk-enough) song and subsquent music video, the original Flash animation and explanation are archived here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_phenomenon
Either there must not be many internet fads, or Cnet went trolling for the tiny ones. I've never in my life seen 2, 7 or 8. Maybe it's for the non-tech types, but then again, they don't read cnet. The only real "fad" here is Hampsterdance. The others are minor blips that don't register as fads so much. The Internet is so large, I don't think it's possible anymore to have many real fads that everyone knows about, just niches.
Slashdot: Playing Favorites Since 1997
Who can forget the neverending Usenet thread i aM eLiTe!!!! gIvE mE wArEz D00dZ!!!!!!!!!! ?
The Big Red Button That Does Absolutely Nothing
But in Soviet Russia, the fad that may never die is the "first post" fad!
Er, wait a second...
*amem* In Soviet Russia, Post dies first!
It's true. I can attest to the cross-pollination of the high-tech with the low-brow.
I went to a Slashdot Meetup in Toronto and the girl who used to work for Microsoft who now works for the Toronto Star talked about Fark. That's were I heard about it.
Come to think of it, I stopped lurking and became a Slashdot user just so I could post my report on the party.
And the Bananaphone / Badgerphone / Aftermath stuff.
Given the number of times "Bananaphone" has circulated through my head unbidden, it has clearly overwhelmed the other ten combined in my memory.
Which is why "Bananaphone: the aftermath" made so much sense...
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
here're some animals:
http://www.sidetalkin.com/page-animals.html
Keyra the "Mystery Booty" or "hottest ass in the wolrd!!!!111one11!" didn't make the list, for a while I couldn't log on to a forum WITHOUT seeing something about that one.
Had a discussion with a friend about the site HotorNot when it first appeared.
He said if you followed the picture links that you often found directories that contained additional pictures.
Quite frequently these girls had nude pix and sometimes hardcore ones.
Over the next few weeks I have to admit that we lost an awful lot of productivity finding and swapping these pictures.
It was a little like finding hidden treasure.
You guys need to have more respect for your cultural background. I, for one, welcome our tired cliché overlords.
Not so much a fad, but there was a series of pictures going around ahile ago that I can't track down now.
They had this freaky monkey-boy-looking thing put in a variety of awkward situations (fraternity hazing, something about milk, alone in the bathroom)
Turns out it was an art project, using an anthropomorphic puppet, but they were very unsettling pictures when you thought they were real.
I thought it was called "Joshua", but I can't seem to find it in google.
Anybody know what I mean?
http://www.mit.edu/people/patil/yatta.html
There's already a whole article.
This site (trendwatcher.koan.net) lets you add a fads/trends etc and it will graph them over time, pretty cool http://trendwatcher.koan.net/node/105 Heres the fad for All your base are belong to us
How about lemonparty.org ?
Missing: :-)
http://www.crashbonsai.com/
http://www.beautydestroyed.com/
http://www.slashdot.org/
http://www.userfriendly.org/
All good fads in their time..
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Thanks for the laugh :)
For webfad number 11....btw Good one guys, the cnet linked articles are slashdoted
Animutations.
Xiao Xiao.
The Peter Pan dude.
Tourist Guy.
The 9/11 conspiracy flash.
Circumcision is child abuse.
http://www.threebrain.com/weeeeee.shtml
"The Adobe Updater must update itself before it can check for updates. Would you like to update the Adobe Updater now?"
http://www.whitehouse.com/ former porn site
and
http://www.cnet.com/
Come on, you all know the words! "Show me, show you, Kikkoman, Kikkoman! Show me, show you, Kikkoman! All right!"
Be who you are...and be it in style!
The article lists Friendster as a 'remember when' fad. I's like to protest! People still use Friendster and it's way to recent to look back on as a fad.
.. I'm sure many of you remember it.
.. I know my mum, my mum went to school with Norm Smith, Norm Smith's best mate in College was Kevin Bacon's cousin)
Well before friendster existed was a site called SixDegrees
I used the premise that every person on the planet is at most six degrees of separation away from anyone else. (In the most famous example, is Kevin Bacon
Once you'd registered with SixDegrees you could see where on the map you fit. Of course the entire world never signed up before it disappeared so we'll never know if it were true of not!
Another one popped up from the back of my memory:
Peanutbutter Jelly Time! clicky
Now not only 1 site can get slashdotted but 10 at once...
That guy with the bad teeth and glasses surely must be Adam Savage with fake teeth goofing off, no?
"It's a nice nostalgic trip for many stories which were presumably posted on /. years ago."
./ hours ago.
Or, as is known to happen, many stories which were duped on
I guess that means I'd better remove that cool animated gif somebody sent me, about a naked captain Kirk reciting poems to a kitten.
a fad whose time has gone...
Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious
'The Really Big Button That Doesn't Do Anything'.
Maybe you had to be there, but this was when Mosaic was fading away and the first Netscape was available. Web pages were fairly new and most were grainy and gray. You found your way around by browsing, as Yahoo was just starting out.
I can't even remember what we were looking for at the time, I only remember somehow ending up at a Korean car dealer, then ending up at the button.
My husband, a friend and I had been drinking, and to come across that site back then, was just hysterical. There weren't too many other fads -- nothing else to goof on. I think the infamous Coffee Pot and the Door were about it.
The site up above is not the same, just a copy as the original went down years ago, so it doesn't have the same flair. The guy got so many hits and responses he couldn't handle it!! If only he had grasped he could probably make money on it!
Let's not be forgetting a petrified Natalie Portman .