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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 rcamera · · Score: 5, Informative

      what about bert is evil?

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

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

    Wikipedia article

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

    Wikipedia's list of Internet phenomenons.

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  5. 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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