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Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]
- sroussey 2y agoHalf expected this link to go elsewhere…
- tsumnia 2y agoThey were cheeky enough to include it in a footnote on "academic pranks"
- blobcode 2y agoA mildly interesting note that this paper was submitted as part of SIGBOVIK (http://www.sigbovik.org/ http://www.sigbovik.org/), a collection of similarly funny papers.
- xrd 2y agoNever forget how Oregon legislators did it. Epic. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998/rickrolled-or-how-one-politician-overcame-partisan-divide-to-pull-a-prank https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998...
- m0llusk 2y agoThis could be a great target for machine learning driven automation.
- pmags 2y agoOne of the early assignments for an introduction to scientific computing course I teach has a Rickroll link -- I added it as a light-hearted way to see who's actually working through the materials in a detailed way.
- RecycledEle 2y agoRickrolling was not born in the early-2000's as the author says. It was alive and well in the late 1990's, at least at U.T. Arlington.
- frontalier 2y ago[citation needed]
- kleiba 2y agoA simple web search would have gotten you there: https://tinyurl.com/arlington-multimedia https://tinyurl.com/arlington-multimedia
- RecycledEle 2y ago> [citation needed] I'm sorry. I didn't save screen-shots in 1997. I do remember that there were Rick Astley videos uploaded to YouTube under throwaway accounts for years before Rick Astley started uploading his own videos to YouTube.
- tekla 2y agoI'm calling BS, I was there for the Duckroll.
- kleiba 2y agoBack in the 2000s: - Trick your friend into clicking on that interesting link - They get to enjoy good ole Rick Astley's baritone voice and shoulder padded jacket on youtube In 2024: - Trick your friend into clicking on that interesting link - Phew, saved by two minutes of pre-video ads!
- pfdietz 2y agoIf you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie "Up" you will have presented him with an impossible dilemma.
- ashton314 2y agoI love all the little Easter eggs that make their way into academic papers. 42 is now firmly entrenched of course as the “default number“ in virtually all examples. And paper that I have under review, I tried sneaking in a few references to Zork.