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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. Top 10 Don'ts by gbulmash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Top 10 Things We Wish People Would Stop Putting On Web Sites

    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 .gifs
    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!!!!!!!

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    1. Re:Top 10 Don'ts by Deagol · · Score: 4, Insightful
      1. Inline MIDI (or *any* sound) files that play when you visit the page.

      The worst I had to endure was a MIDI of "Dueling Banjos". Oh, the humanity!

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  2. Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: by PiratePTG · · Score: 5, Insightful
    WHAT??!!

    No Badgers?? There should be Badgers on the list!!

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  3. Maddox by AutopsyReport · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I figured The Best Page In the Universe (Maddox) would have been noted somewhere in there :)

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

    Missing:

    Badgerbadgerbadger
    bash.org
    tubgirl
    goatse

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  5. They left out way too much. by Peterus7 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Things they left out:

    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.

  6. Re:Wharrabout... by linzeal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think a place like Cnet has the cajones to link anything sexual but if they did I'm sure Hillary Clinton would try to ban the internet if enough luddites complained.

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  7. Re:Napster? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because Napster is not... the WEB. *WEB* fads.

  8. SeanBaby's list by IsoRashi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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

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  9. Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: by damsa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    She is a fad, because of all the parody sites and parody posts. Her spot even got MS to do switch commercials of their own.

  10. If you're old school... by geekpaddr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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

  11. The Dell Dude? by dalutong · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Dell dude doesn't count?

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  12. Re:Wharrabout... by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The current overusage of the word MEME is a FAD, that's for sure.

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  13. So... by JonLatane · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This article is just one big collective dupe? :P

  14. Bananas by IdahoEv · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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...

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