Top 10 Web Fads 490
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."
Wharrabout... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:5, Funny)
Disturbingly enough, this makes me want to mod a post containing goatse.cx as +1, Informative. It's a good thing I don't have mod points or I'd have to kill myself afterwards.
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:5, Funny)
"Cajones" means "drawers", as in furniture. And I like the unintended effect on the reader
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:5, Funny)
Moran.
Was??? (Score:5, Informative)
Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]
Re:Was??? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:3, Funny)
Personal Favorite (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, the marshmallow kind.
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually the "first post" fad is fad that may never die!
But in Soviet Russia, the fad that may never die is the "first post" fad!
Er, wait a second...
Re:Wharrabout... (Score:3, Insightful)
Long lost website finder. (Score:5, Informative)
For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Informative)
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
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Insightful)
No Badgers?? There should be Badgers on the list!!
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Funny)
No Badgers?? There should be Badgers on the list!!
We don't need no steenking badgers!!!!
Sorry, someone had to say it.
-g
Bananas (Score:3, Insightful)
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" [graceland.ca] made so much sense...
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Insightful)
Badgerbadgerbadger
bash.org
tubgirl
goatse
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:4, Informative)
Here's a cruel joke... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Here's a cruel joke... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Here's a cruel joke... (Score:3, Funny)
We went to the room above his, tied some sheets together, sent down a brave soul to climb in through his window and smash the thing to bits.
And yeah, he was a stoner.
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:4, Informative)
Big Red Button
Zombo
JeffK
Also missing: (Score:5, Informative)
"Ate my Balls" websites
Time Cube
Alex Chiu
Micropayments
Missing Option (Score:2, Informative)
Numa Numa
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:5, Funny)
I'm quite surprised by this - a couple things I'd never heard of before (for example, Ellen Feiss), and some that aren't "fads" (Blogger, Friendster, etc).
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:For those who don't want to RTFA, the top 10: (Score:3, Informative)
Hello my future girlfriend? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hello my future girlfriend? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hello my future girlfriend? (Score:5, Funny)
I clicked on your link at work, in the conference room. That will teach me to browse Slashdot at work.
Sitting in here, and my computer blasts "Hello my future girlfriend!"
Heh, nice! (Score:5, Funny)
Since this hasn't been posted before, what is it, a meta-dupe?
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Heh, nice! (Score:3)
If
Re:Heh, nice! (Score:3, Funny)
Is it safe to call "RealAudio" a fad yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it safe to call "RealAudio" a fad yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Top 10 Don'ts (Score:5, Insightful)
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!!!!!!!
Re:Top 10 Don'ts (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Top 10 Don'ts (Score:5, Funny)
Don't post it on your website
It drives us crazy
Re:Top 10 Don'ts (Score:2)
("In Soviet Russia, Top Ten Cliches kill YOU!")
Re:Top 10 Don'ts (Score:5, Insightful)
The worst I had to endure was a MIDI of "Dueling Banjos". Oh, the humanity!
Re:Top 10 Don'ts (Score:5, Informative)
spoiler (Score:3, Funny)
I *DON'T* kiss you! (Score:3, Funny)
Not to mention... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Leeroy? (Score:2)
Re:Leeroy? (Score:2)
Slashdot (Score:2)
Some words of wisdom (Score:2)
Maddox (Score:2, Insightful)
Slashdot Top 10 (Score:5, Funny)
Let's get this started:
Hot grits
In Soviet Russia...
Goatse.cx
Stephen King, DEAD at 42
The Moon: A Ridiculous Liberal Myth
Re:Slashdot Top 10 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdot Top 10 (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russia the /. cliches make fun of YOU!
Wikipedia beat you to it... (Score:3, Informative)
Does Webvan count? (Score:2)
I still have their refridgerator magnets and magnet shopping lists. God, how I loved Webvan. And the bins are still great...
A current one (Score:2)
Napster? (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Napster? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Napster? (Score:3, Interesting)
And anyway: WTF is "Mahir" ? Never heard of it/him/her/that.
Re:Napster? (Score:4, Funny)
Mullets (Score:2, Funny)
They left out way too much. (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:They left out way too much. (Score:2)
Jennicam (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Jennicam (Score:4, Funny)
Under Construction (Score:3)
Realultimatepower.net - Official Ninja Webpage (Score:2)
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 [uncyclopedia.org] and Pong! the Movie [uncyclopedia.org]!
Had everyone seen all 10? (Score:2)
Is it a poor list, or am I really just out of the loop?
Flawed logic (Score:2, Insightful)
11. Zombo Com (Score:4, Informative)
11. Zombo Com [zombo.com]
Self promotion (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget (Score:5, Informative)
Pass me a drill, my brain wants out (Score:3, Funny)
* 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.
Don't forget Bonsai Kitten (Score:5, Funny)
I LIEK MILK? (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.generation.nl/~hitoshi/ [generation.nl]
SeanBaby's list (Score:3, Insightful)
Ate My Balls? (Score:4, Funny)
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???
Internet Explorer (Score:3, Funny)
Strong Bad (Score:5, Funny)
They forgot Strong Bad! [homestarrunner.com] I dunno, but putting up a list without him sounds kinda.....Dangeresque
What are top-10 pre-1998 internet fads? (Score:5, Informative)
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?
Re:What are top-10 pre-1998 internet fads? (Score:3, Interesting)
Kibo
Joel Furr (and his T-shirts)
Canter & Siegel
Proper trolling (which incidentally, is done by *trollers*, not trolls)
Slashdot is missing from the list (Score:3, Funny)
The Dell Dude? (Score:3, Insightful)
So... (Score:3, Insightful)
BADGER BADGER BADGER (Score:4, Informative)
It took weeks to get that out of my head. For your head asploding pleasure: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php [albinoblacksheep.com]
Shoulda made the top 10.
Re:don't forget (Score:2)
Re:hampster? (Score:2)
Re:hampster? (Score:2, Informative)
FOOL!
Re:hampster? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:hampster? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:sad thing is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:what about (Score:3, Informative)
First Post is [wikipedia.org] a fad, according to this [wikipedia.org] wikipedia article.
Strange, the article mentions Blogger [slashdot.org] 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 [wikipedia.org] puts it -- A fad [wikipedia.org], 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 dra