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Outside of YouTube, the dawn of "weird web" for me is Homestar Runner [0], and Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected [1]. 0: https://homestarrunner.com/main https://homest
by jihadjihad 3y ago
Outside of YouTube, the dawn of "weird web" for me is Homestar Runner [0], and Don Hertzfeldt's Rejected [1].
0: https://homestarrunner.com/main https://homestarrunner.com/main
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSb-nV8l2QY
- Loughla 3y agoJesus Christ, nothing makes me reminisce about college quite as much as homestar runner. That site was the beginning of my love affair with all things weird and esoteric on the internet. I got scroll buttons as the day is long.
- adamrezich 3y agowhat H*R quotes do you find yourself unconsciously quoting to this day? for me it's "dag, yo" and, whenever I see "Ontario": "On-tah-REE-oh, CAH-nah-da—ooh, a little south of the border flavor"
- bombcar 3y agoI still say “eaten by some kind of Linux” anytime I accidentally cat a binary file.
- erik_seaberg 3y ago“Can we just call you fhqwhgads?” when someone sends a Yubikey code over Slack.
- fknorangesite 3y agoMaybe not a quote per se, but every time I go to the gym and put my boxing gloves on, I think something to the effect of “How am I going to be able to type in these?”
- pjot 3y ago“First draw an S, okay now a more different S”
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoI believe I remember "dorito" being used in the context of "deleting something" so I always say to dorito something. If I have misplaced my hat, "where my hat is at?" Perhaps more because H*R is a brainworm which refuses to leave :)
- colanderman 3y agoMy wife despises HR but isn't familiar with that bit, and I misplace my hat on a daily basis, so that quote is my private in-joke in my household.
- MandieD 3y ago“Burninatin”… and telling my toddler off for throwing a light switch rave.
- smcl 3y agoThere's so much in that sbemail that I love. I recently remembered his second attempt at the dragon, saying "Let's put one of those beefy arms back on him for good measure. That looks really good ... coming out of the back of his neck there" and was chuckling to myself. And the little music video at the end where the drawings all feature nicely shaded drawings like the one Strong Sad made that got burned. God what a site :D
- mattgreenrocks 3y ago"what what, the email" "...oh trevor, I pine for you!" "..ohhh, there's TWO of them" "how's it hangin, texas?"
- smokel 3y ago"Email, I hope it's from a female!" And I often hum the "fhqwgads" tune, and go "boop boop" on an imagined keyboard.
- kridsdale3 3y agoI said uh come on fhqwgads come on fhqwgads push it to the limit everybody to the limit
- dekken_ 3y agoarrowed!
- andygcook 3y agoTop quote I say has to be, "Nice jorb, the Chort!" and top mental sound bite I play in my head is "404'd!" whenever a page throws a 404 error.
- TimTheTinker 3y agoTo my kids when they do something well: "you did a good jarb"
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- archagon 3y agoBaleted!
- gsuuon 3y agoWhenever anything is down: "The system.. is down.. The system.. is down"
- salad-tycoon 3y agoFirst video podcast I ever got on my iPod. Amazed I could watch movies. At least I think I got it from iTunes, might have been limewire. Who knows. Reading this thread is great. I’m sharing the classic viral videos with a younger person now. Going through the classics like: -double rainbow “look at that rainbow!”, -GI joe PSA “hey kids I’m a computer, stop all the downloading”, and, -End of the world “hoookay here’s is ze world, ROUNDDD,…” and now am remembering more by reading comments here. Many of these videos aged just fine in the era of polished-to-attract-advertising influencer “viral videos.” Reading the quotes below, I’ll have to go back and catch H*R , seems like something I didn’t know to appreciate at the time.
- Solvency 3y agoLittle compudah
- saurik 3y agoI was at UCSB when Don did Rejected and the idea of it having much of anything to do with the Internet is mind-contorting... he didn't use any computers to film it and I see it premiered in person at ComicCon. But like, AFAIK, we had all gotten to see it in the theatre, as part of some campus-level film showing; though I think he later got to be on our Arts and Lectures circuit, and I feel like it was shown at the cartoon festival he co-ran soon thereafter (just to get people hyped up). How did you watch it online, before it was (much later) put on YouTube? I feel like he didn't have a website at the time, but maybe it was that obvious? Were people sharing a video of it on file-sharing networks? (Honestly, I do feel like we knew it too well to not be watching it on loop, but I simply don't remember how we did it... all of my memories of Don's work--and honestly some of the short interstitials he did for the film festival are some of my favorites! "the illuuuussion of mooovement" ;P--are in a theatre.)
- RankingMember 3y agoIt was super popular on web forums like SomethingAwful's and was shared as big ol' hosted video files, probably in xvid format and usually direct-linked off someone's web provider's meager hosting space.
- pram 3y agoYep I got it from somewhere on SA in like 2002. Wasn’t that obscure, a ton of it was quoted all the time. I am a consumer whore! And how!
- redhale 3y agoRejected is definitely the OG "weird" internet video for me. I must have seen it a thousand times. There are a few phrases from it that have a permanent place in my vocabulary. My spoon is too big.
- mastersummoner 3y ago"I'm the Queeeeeeen of France!" for me.
- Graziano_M 3y agoTo me it's a crime to not mention Group X / Mario Twins in this sort of article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeOULX79VA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIeOULX79VA
- kridsdale3 3y agoThey look the same!
- epiccoleman 3y ago"They look the same" is so burned into my brain that it's part of my basic vocabulary. I cannot count the number of times I've said "they look the same" in that goofy voice while looking at a diff, PR, or comparing two config files or something. In a similar vein, the famous "Miss Teen South Carolina" stuck in my craw, and I often throw out a "like such as" when demonstrating something for humorous effect. I guess these pop culture references really date me, but among my age group they get a laugh, for whatever that's worth.
- colanderman 3y agoSome other early pre-YouTube "weird web", all of which predate Salad Fingers (July 2004): September 2003, Badger Badger Badger: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/badger-badger-badger https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/badger-badger-badger March 2002, Peanut Butter Jelly Time: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peanut-butter-jelly-time https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/peanut-butter-jelly-time August 1998, Hampster Dance: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hampster-dance https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hampster-dance