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Top 10 Web Fads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brace-yourself-for-a-lot-of-eyball-rolls dept.

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."

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  1. Long lost website finder. by bigwavejas · · Score: 5, Informative

    I frequently visit http://www.archive.org/ to pull up sites no longer available. They typically have the content of sites, less the images.

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  2. For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: by Fantasy+Football · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

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    1. Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: by pHatidic · · Score: 4, Informative

      Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Bananaphone.

    2. Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: by rcamera · · Score: 5, Informative

      what about bert is evil?

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  3. Re:hampster? by I8TheWorm · · Score: 4, Informative

    Her actual pet hamster's name was Hampton thus leading to the site being called hampster.

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  4. Was??? by fbartho · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd say it is a pretty popular fad around here.

    Wikipedia article

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  5. Don't forget by zdzichu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wikipedia's list of Internet phenomenons.

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  6. Re:Top 10 Don'ts by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    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 =)

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  7. Also missing: by Valdrax · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Mr. T vs." websites
    "Ate my Balls" websites
    Time Cube
    Alex Chiu
    Micropayments

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  8. What are top-10 pre-1998 internet fads? by davidwr · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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