[HN Gopher] Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)
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Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)
Author : hdk
Score : 126 points
Date : 2022-01-22 10:35 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| Trasmatta wrote:
| I literally just went to Zombocom last night (you can do anything
| there, after all). I can't help but stay for the full audio loop
| every time. It makes me so happy that the site is still up and
| functional after all this time. To me it's like a small link back
| to the past when the internet felt more fun.
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| I periodically visit http://www.31337.com/ just to make sure
| it's still content-free for a similar reason.
| infotropy wrote:
| I'm just sad that humanskullwarehouse.com appears to be
| defunct.
| whatshisface wrote:
| Zombocom has stayed active for longer than many actual,
| revenue-having businesses. Zombocom is more reliable _than the
| average Google product._ I will gladly accept Zombocom platform
| lock-in, because it is a name I can trust.
| Trasmatta wrote:
| I was convinced the death of flash would mean the death of
| Zombocom, but the fact that somebody took the time to migrate
| it to HTML5 makes me so, so happy.
|
| I should never have doubted it. After all, the unattainable
| is unknown at ZomboCom.
| endorphine wrote:
| I remember zombocom from back in the day. This was a meme before
| memes were cool.
|
| Fun fact: one of the first websites I made as a kid, in 2001,
| hosted in Geocities, is still around but I'm embarrassed to share
| it.
|
| Edit: maybe not so fun for people other than me and my friends
| from that time
| pcwalton wrote:
| Zombo.com stopped Firefox development for a day back in, oh, 2011
| or so. Somebody noticed that new tests were failing and the tree
| ended up being closed for new commits while the problem was
| investigated. Turns out that a month or so prior someone added a
| test that loaded zombo.com, and the site had gone down. This may
| not have been a coincidence, as all the racks of test machines
| had been running that test nonstop and effectively DDoSing
| zombo.com for a month.
|
| Anyway, that's why the test servers are now firewalled.
| f38zf5vdt wrote:
| > The site's creator, Josh Levine, did not respond to an
| interview request.
|
| I'm guessing maybe he's a little sad or fatigued that his lasting
| public legacy is a meme website from the dot-com era.
| staplung wrote:
| Surprised that no one has mentioned https://theuselessweb.com.
|
| That's how I was first introduced to Zombocom, among many, many
| others.
| dane-pgp wrote:
| > Queen Elizabeth ... has never granted an interview.
|
| I or II?
| mantis_shrimp wrote:
| The piece was fine. I'm just not a fan of the characterization
| that this is an old thing that gen x people don't appreciate it
| because it doesn't sell ads?
|
| This is the most gen x thing I've seen all day, and don't worry
| the new generation is just as sick of this ad-infested internet
| as everyone else, we just didn't know there was another way.
|
| It's... Naive, imagining that this kind of content doesn't exist
| anymore. It exists, peruse reddit for 5 mins and you will find a
| similar site. But now we have so many apps that bring real value
| to our lives, I think what people really miss is the feeling of
| the internet being a toy, rather than a mature system that has
| both value and consequences.
| [deleted]
| bee_rider wrote:
| And anyway, Zombocom was the kind of dumb humor that we
| (millenial teenagers, at the time) loved. Next they'll try to
| tell us that Badger Badger Mushroom embodied the fact that GenX
| was over lyrics, or something.
| Natsu wrote:
| Wouldn't one use Leekspin for that?
|
| Ah tsi tsup ari dik ari dil ...
| dumbfounder wrote:
| I like to open about 7-8 zombocom tabs about 1-3 seconds apart.
| Give it a try. You can do much more of anything.
| iratewizard wrote:
| Did they really try to write a "deep" think piece on a homestar
| runner-era joke website?
| whoomp12342 wrote:
| I agree, articles like this is what's wrong with the internet
| today. While I absolutely love zombo com, it does not merit a
| writeup and 2 minutes of my time to read said article
| machinerychorus wrote:
| > this is what's wrong with the internet today.
|
| This is what's RIGHT about the internet today! Anyone can
| create a website and put whatever they want on it. You may
| have a specific vision for what makes a "good" website, but
| you don't get to control what other people post. If you don't
| like it, ignore it! The internet isn't meant to be a
| homogenous bulletin board, it's meant to be a way for
| everyone to share whatever information they want to.
| mcphage wrote:
| Maybe an article that takes 1:43 to read?
| alexb_ wrote:
| Not everything that is created on the internet is made
| special for you. Nobody is forcing you to read this, and
| clearly other people here enjoy the write up, so calling it
| "what's wrong with the internet today" seems... extreme
| _jal wrote:
| Totally. This took the place of clickbait that could have
| made me feel insecure while generating a fraction of a penny
| for some private equity group.
|
| Where's the civic mindedness today?
| Rinum wrote:
| Why not? Look at all the upvotes it's getting.
| mhb wrote:
| Look at all the anti-vaxxers.
| iratewizard wrote:
| The upvotes are explained by the reddit tourists who
| destroyed their own site and have nowhere else to go.
| bitexploder wrote:
| It's an anchor point to be philosophical about the current
| state of affairs. It isn't really about Zombocom.
| ta988 wrote:
| There is also perdu.com (lost in French)
|
| Don't worry, we are going to help you. You are here.
|
| It has been here for decades.
| mrweasel wrote:
| The where a Danish site that I absolutely love, it was a bit of
| a meme in it's own right. For 10 year or so, it was just a
| centered text say: "Det skal nu nok ikke regne med" (Danish
| for: Don't count on it).
|
| That's it, that was the entire site.
| kingcharles wrote:
| Off-topic, but seeing Zombocom again reminded me of a video and I
| can't find it anywhere. It was a popular funny video about 15
| years ago.
|
| Basically there is a brand new startup and they are waiting for
| their CEO to arrive. Bicycle messenger turns up and gets mistaken
| for the CEO. Startup doesn't even know what they actually do
| (Beanie Babies?). CEO finally turns up, fires everyone.
|
| Anyone remember this video? Know where I can find it?
| 7thaccount wrote:
| I spent a long time on it trying to solve the puzzle once.
| prewett wrote:
| It seems like the site has changed since 2001 or whenever I first
| saw it. My memory of it was that it was a lot more subtle: just a
| white screen with lavendar circles that faded in and out on the
| screen. I also don't remember the audio having background music,
| but I could have misremembered that.
| birdyrooster wrote:
| The music was definitely there back in the day
| spikej wrote:
| It used to all be flash based. One update is definitely the
| change to using CSS, etc.
| avisser wrote:
| It def always had that light elevator music.
| jey wrote:
| I think it's just that our standards have changed since 1999.
| Back then, the fact that it wasn't covered completely head-to-
| toe in Dancing Baby[1] and Hampsterdance[2] gifs made it seem
| "subtle" and restrained.
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| 1. https://techcrunch.com/wp-
| content/uploads/2014/06/babygif.gi...
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| 2. https://www.deviantart.com/jefftheironic/art/Hampster-
| Dance-...
| hrydgard wrote:
| The animation speed isn't the same for some reason but
| otherwise it's exactly like back in the day.
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