[HN Gopher] Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]
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       Survey of Rickrolling in Academic Literature [pdf]
        
       Author : davikr
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2024-06-15 13:54 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | sroussey wrote:
       | Half expected this link to go elsewhere...
        
         | tsumnia wrote:
         | They were cheeky enough to include it in a footnote on
         | "academic pranks"
        
       | blobcode wrote:
       | A mildly interesting note that this paper was submitted as part
       | of SIGBOVIK (http://www.sigbovik.org/), a collection of similarly
       | funny papers.
        
       | xrd wrote:
       | Never forget how Oregon legislators did it. Epic.
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       | https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/04/13/135385998...
        
       | m0llusk wrote:
       | This could be a great target for machine learning driven
       | automation.
        
       | pmags wrote:
       | One 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 wrote:
       | Rickrolling 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 wrote:
         | [citation needed]
        
           | kleiba wrote:
           | A simple web search would have gotten you there:
           | https://tinyurl.com/arlington-multimedia
        
         | tekla wrote:
         | I'm calling BS, I was there for the Duckroll.
        
       | kleiba wrote:
       | Back in the 2000s:
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       | - 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:
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       | - Trick your friend into clicking on that interesting link
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       | - Phew, saved by two minutes of pre-video ads!
        
       | pfdietz wrote:
       | If you ask Rick Astley for a copy of the movie "Up" you will have
       | presented him with an impossible dilemma.
        
       | ashton314 wrote:
       | I 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.
        
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