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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."
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
Missing Option:
Numa Numa
No. The hamster was named Hampton, hence the name HampsterDance.
FOOL!
Fantasy Football
Her actual pet hamster's name was Hampton thus leading to the site being called hampster.
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
11. Zombo Com
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The fad now is goatse.ca, a working replica of the old and familiar goatse.cx (NSFW). He will never be forgotten.
I'd say it is a pretty popular fad around here.
Wikipedia article
Gravity Sucks
Don't miss Dog poop girl, South Korea's hateful version of Star Wars Kid! This one was covered in the Washington Post.
Wikipedia's list of Internet phenomenons.
:wq
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.
Did you know that you can play mp3's as background music? It's true, simply give them the .wav extension and place them like any other audio component and almost all systems will gladly play them. Wav is simply a file format surrounding PCM audio, and most systems use a player associated with Wav files that can also decode MPEG2 Layer 3 audio =)
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
"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").
I'm hoping this becomes the next fad: Cunts Corner.
Quality site, the sort you could read for hours and be pissing yourself all the way through.
NO, hampster dance, here is the original Hampster Dance before it was commercialized.
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?
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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...
Not to mention tubgirl.
Ah - tubgirl!
I searched for ages on various locator sites trying to learn her true identity so I could stalk her with a pair of rubber gloves and a pot of coffee with cream. But alas. . . I could not find my one and only true love, my tubgirl.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
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Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
There's already a whole article.