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YTMND is down for temporary maintenance
- who-cares 7y agoSo what.
- MikeWazowski 7y agoR.I.P
- fredley 7y agoWho else remembers the first time they saw Blue Ball Machine?
- elpool2 7y agoI do! The blue ball machine started when someone on SA posted a template gif which other people used to make their own tile of the machine. You just had to make sure the balls entered and exited in the same spot. I made the one where the ball gets frozen in ice. Then all the tiles were combined into a single gif. I remember being disappointed when the version that went viral only included half of the tiles that people submitted.
- baud147258 7y agoI'm just waiting for resetera to die.
- eropple 7y agoWhy, exactly?
- mlmartin 7y agoNothing makes this less sad. Not even Doom music.
- asdfman123 7y agoWanted: someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke.
- falcor84 7y agoCan you guarantee safety?
- mindcrime 7y agoMaybe if you provide your own weapons...
- module0000 7y agoPlease for the love of everything, let's go. I'm in. This is not a joke.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- wyldfire 7y agoThis thread contains references to a film called "Safety Not Guaranteed" [1]. ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Not_Guaranteed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Not_Guaranteed
- mediocrejoker 7y agoThanks. I wonder whether the original comment about "doom music" is also a reference to the film? I had never heard of it.
- wyldfire 7y agoI just assumed it was about ytmnd.
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- bkq 7y agoIt's a shame this has happened. I wonder to what extent this has been archived, I've taken a quick glance at it on archive.org, and it seems the main page has been well archived but I'd be sceptical if any of the "deeper" pages so speak were archived. It makes me wonder what will happen with similar online communities as time drags on, and makes me sort of concerned for them too and the content that could be lost due to their disappearance. With the web going forward, it seems as if similar memetic communities will primarily exist on platforms such as reddit, and possibly tumblr?
- fredley 7y agoI'm not sure to what extent YTMND itself would be archivable. The last I saw it it loaded frames with some Flash loader, which handled sync with the audio (as opposed to the very early YTMNDs which were just a gif/audio and text). Places like tumblr and reddit are much more easily archivable as they're just text and image files, and now video files which with modern web standards can just be grabbed as is and put into archival systems with automatic transcoding as standards change. I just hope whoever was running it at the end makes the archive publicly available.
- skocznymroczny 7y agoWas it loading any Flash or it was a Flash app provided by the website that you could upload your content to? I know of a certain adult website which hosts "webteases", which are basically interactive/choose your own adventure slideshows. The content was originally provided with Flash, but now they reworked it to use HTML5 and most of the content seems to work because it was using the website provided framework for the content.
- testplzignore 7y agoIIRC, you would upload wav or mp3 to YTMND, and then it would play back in Flash. I think it worked like this for one or both of these reasons: 1. Syncing the audio and video. It is difficult to sync a gif with audio. They have to be started at the exact same time, be the exact same length, and never get out of sync due to lag/stutter. This wasn't important for early YTMNDs, but mattered later when people created what were disparagingly referred to as "___ short films". 2. Bandwidth. I think Max had said the Flash solution was more efficient than serving the raw audio and gif. Think of it as an early version of WebM. I think the use of Flash could be controlled on a per-YTMND basis - the creator could disable the use of Flash. And/or maybe it was that Flash was only used for animated gifs?
- ginko 7y agoI only checked out again ytmnd a couple of days ago and left after I saw that all pages required flash. (Was that always the case? I thought it only required basic HTML)
- doomlaser 7y agoprobably for audio
- CedarMadness 7y agoThat was a feature they added later on when people started making pages that required the audio to be in sync with the gif. Flash would wait until both were fully loaded to start playing them.
- starky 7y agoMyself as well. Something reminded me of the Jean Luc Picard song and it popped up in my search results which sent me checking out a few old ones.
- cwkoss 7y agocap tain jean luc picard u s s en ter prise
- jccalhoun 7y agoSad. Back in 2000-2002 I was in grad school and I have fond memories of setting the home page on the shared imacs to YTMND with the volume turned all the way up and hearing it go off when someone would open up the browser.
- youknow-itstrue 7y agoThe internet before peer-to-peer MP3 file sharing was ruined by child pornography and spyware, because piracy.
- kickscondor 7y agoThis is crazy - was just browsing through the site a bit last week. I just finished a project[1] partially inspired by YMNTD and spent some time... getting inspired. A lot of the pages didn’t seem to have working audio - perhaps modern browsers don’t allow what YMNTD required. (It seems that gifsound.com has also had to adapt over time - you have to click a few times to get it to play, to work around autoplay restrictions.) I didn’t check, but I imagine the site didn’t work at all on iOS. [1] https://www.kickscondor.com/slaptrash/ https://www.kickscondor.com/slaptrash/
- gre 7y agoPTKFGS too?
- smcl 7y agoDon’t forget YesYes and Typing Noises
- ardy42 7y agoI always liked Mario Teaches Punch the Keys For God Sake: https://web.archive.org/web/20060603154932/marioteachesptkfgs.ytmnd.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060603154932/marioteachesptkfg...
- timdorr 7y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20181019224122/http://ptkfgs.ytmnd.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20181019224122/http://ptkfgs.ytm... If the audio doesn't work, click one of the arrows in the top archive.org bar to go to another page. It doesn't appear to work if you load the page, but it does work after navigating.
- urNotVerySmart 7y agoIt's really easy to perform a conversion of what you describe, for the sake of publishing an archive. Extracting audio from flash objects is trivial, and coverting HTML frames to a single page format is a basic markup task, using divs. This stuff is so easy, you could not only automate it, but build an abstraction layer to convert it on demand or even client-side, with a JS library. Anyway, as the GP implies, the archive was likely performed collaboratively, with the consent and direct assistance of YTMND. Why else would they have closed user registration, but left the site available for a full year. The writing was on the wall.
- vortico 7y agoYou'll Always Be The Man Forever Dog
- subtleRacism 7y agoIs no one going to talk about the implicit racism of the site and its community?
- chuckgreenman 7y agoAt least leekspin.com continues!
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoYou're the past now, dog?
- qntty 7y agoWow, strong nostalgia. I haven't thought about that site since about 2006. What a strange and beautiful thing it was. I still never felt like I really understood it.
- Waterluvian 7y agoIf you're looking for a short injection of YTMND nostalgia: We Didn't Start This Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-DMIf-WZYU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-DMIf-WZYU
- Asooka 7y agoGood riddance. Nothing but poop on that site.
- busterarm 7y agoYTMND was the birthplace[1] of Initial D memes, which, to me at least, never get old. [1]:Lol, Internet
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago(Refresh to sync)
- yc-kraln 7y agoWell, there goes my tiny bit of internet fame. (hint: 22/7)
- jbattle 7y agoYTMND was the first time the notion of memes (in the dawkins sense of the word) made literal sense to me. There were a somewhat limited number of themes/motifs -> memes that you'd see combined and recombined. Some were more pervasive than others. Most of them spread with little to no relation to their original meaning/purpose/context. It was interesting to watch the meta level of the thing
- tombert 7y agoGoodnight, sweet prince. YTMND was a bit before my time, but I can appreciate it's place in early "meme culture". At least Something Awful is still around.
- pastor_elm 7y agoDon't see why you would need a whole site to do what you can run off an instagram account
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoHint: Instagram didn't exist in 2001
- vectorEQ 7y agoand it wouldn't have if it weren't for these types of sites!
- shawnz 7y agoInstagram wasn't launched until 9 years after YTMND
- seeker61 7y agoWe are all prisoners of time
- djsumdog 7y agoIt's as if millions of memes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
- ukyrgf 7y agoYesterday, driving back to work from my lunch break, I thought to myself "What was that old site with the acronym? ytm-something? You're the man now dog? What the hell was that site?" I was never a user, don't enjoy memes at all, but for some reason they were in my head yesterday.
- hnaccy 7y agoCan you believe it you've already finished C, think you can do Matlab?
- imjustsaying 7y agothink you can do matlab? you can't even do C
- nebulous1 7y agoI wonder did they try to hand it all off to archive.org first
- v64 7y agoRIP. This whole phenomenon was wildly popular with my friend group back in the day. In 2001, the original yourethemannowdog.com went down for a bit and I put up a mirror at a similar domain. It started gaining in popularity, prompting YTMND creator Max Goldberg to send me a realistic looking but ultimately fake email from a supposed law firm threatening me with a cease and desist (unfortunately, I no longer have a copy of this email). We all had a good laugh about that, and the original site was back up soon after. I never would've guessed it would blow up as a meme the way it did. Edit: It turns out I had the year of the cease and desist wrong; it was 2002. I'm amused that evidence[1] still exists[2] of my small contribution to this meme. [1] https://i.imgur.com/CYRMvup.png https://i.imgur.com/CYRMvup.png [2] https://www.avsforum.com/forum/44-movies-concerts-music-discussion/193395-favorite-movie-lines-ever-4.html https://www.avsforum.com/forum/44-movies-concerts-music-disc...
- ctvo 7y agoI hope someone accurately attributes SomethingAwful.com to these early iconic internet memories. Image macros, the lowest form of comedy on SA, became memes and is still the lowest form of comedy.
- anthonybsd 7y agoI miss Photoshop Phridays. I mean they still exist but somehow the spark is gone. Back in 2000-2001 we used to wait for them religiously.
- nostalgk 7y agoSA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.
- unicornfinder 7y agoI seem to recall them charging a small amount to open an account there, which meant I, as well, a child back then, never was able to access it. I feel like I missed out.
- kyllo 7y agoI've heard that dril on Twitter is actually Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka from SA, can anyone confirm/deny? https://twitter.com/dril https://twitter.com/dril
- nostalgk 7y agoI can confirm that I want this to be true, at the least.
- RankingMember 7y agoNah, Lowtax was banned from twitter and created another account to whine about it, something he would be banned quickly for in his own forum.
- CocaKoala 7y agoHere's my YTMND story. My freshman year of college, 06/07, my roommate spent a boatload of time on his laptop at his desk; he'd sleep in, skip class, and stay up late, spending all his time on his laptop. I peeked over his shoulder a few times, and he was just browsing YTMND constantly. Anyways, at the end of the year in the start of finals week, somebody started knocking on our door at like 7am or something, some time that's ungodly early for a college student. As soon as I stumble over and open up the door, somebody says, "This is the FBI, we have a warrant to search your room" while naming my roommate. Turns out it wasn't a prank, the actual FBI was raiding my dorm room to find my roommate. They took me into a lounge "to ask some questions" and I was too young to have fully developed my "don't talk to the cops" senses, so I went along with it. They asked me a bunch of questions about my roommate (what classes is he taking, what's his major, what are his hobbies, how does he spend his time) and when they asked about his hobbies I had to say "well, he mostly spends a lot of time browsing You The Man Now Dog online". The fbi, of course, asks for clarification. I don't know if you've ever had to explain the idea behind YTMND to the FBI when you're a 19 year old college student at 730 am on a wednesday during finals week, but let me tell you: it's not fun. "It's a website where people make other websites that feature a tiled image background, a looping sound clip, and some kind of word art over everything." They look at each other, shrug, and continue with the questions until we get to "Have you ever seen your roommate do anything inappropriate near a child", which is probably the closest i've gotten to an actual record-scratch moment in real life. I explain that i've never seen my roommate outside of our dorm room, let alone off the college campus, and there just aren't that many kids around. After that, they conclude the questioning and let me know that they believe there's evidence of federal crimes on my roommate's laptop. So we go back to the room, the other agents have finished confiscating his laptop, it's around 745am, and my roommate rolls over and goes back to sleep. So I'm like, "dude, do you want to explain to me why the fbi felt the need to come to our room at 7 in the morning and take away your laptop?" He says, "Oh, I was posting links to child pornography on YTMND and so now they think there's child porn on my laptop." I say, "Did it ever occur to you that that was a really fucking stupid idea?" He goes, "yeah well I know that NOW", in the most incredulous tone of voice, like he couldn't believe the FBI agents didn't understand that he was doing this as a joke and not out of an earnest love for CP. Later that day he called his parents and left without packing up his stuff, and I never heard from him again; he did not continue to matriculate and I have no idea how his whole saga wrapped up. But now it's impossible for me to think of YTMND without a) wondering what the fuck my roommate was thinking and b) remembering the time I had to explain the idea of stupid internet memes to federal agents.
- rexarex 7y agoZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZaZA
- bramen 7y agoYou will be missed, old friend.
- excalibur 7y agoNoooooooo.jpg
- imjustsaying 7y ago.gif
- grimgrin 7y agohttp://shrinp.com/RIP http://shrinp.com/RIP
- davedx 7y agoUs old school WoW WSG veterans will miss catchthatdruid.ytmnd.com :/
- ianseyer 7y agoyou were the man then, dog
- ndiscussion 7y agoNo it's not? I've been on YTMND for over 10 years so this was very sad and nostalgic for me. But I went to ytmnd.com and it was giving some PHP database errors. And now they have a status message: > rip db >YTMND is down for temporary maintenance. This gives us time to optimize the database, free up unused space, deploy new features, and generally just break stuff. This should not take very long, so feel free to stick around and chat or go away. If you have any trouble accessing the site, or concerns about the direction in which your life is heading, feel free to send an email to support @ ytmnd.com (and expect to be ignored). edit: It seems this is all very poor reporting. Gizmodo, et al have jumped on the story. YTMND has shut down! All based on some speculation on a forum because the site was down for a while?
- Zetaphor 7y agoSeems you're the only person that tried actually going to the website, where this message is prominently displayed.
- localhostdotdev 7y agoto be fair, i went there, saw rip and didn't read further :)
- ihuman 7y agoWhen this was originally posted, there was no message; the page just didn't load.
- deathOfSuperman 7y agoSeems like a "Death of Superman" style marketing ploy. Probe for interest and defibrilate the franchise with a shock to the system. Dump a bunch of publicity that "twinkies" are at risk of disappearing forever, unless [insert emotional blackmail]. Then, for about six months, enjoy renewed interest and a little bit of merchandizing funds in the form of t-shirt sales and the like. If succesful, a boost of fresh blood enters the community for a short period of time, and the tailings of any looming debt can be reconciled before executing a cleaner exit from public operations.
- NeoBasilisk 7y agoVery sad. It's impossible to explain to someone what YTMND was like in 2004 if they didn't experience it themselves.