Internet time machine / 1999

1999, kept in the archive.

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The Internet in 1999

Joe Cartoon’s green cartoon frog sitting inside a blue blender.

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Joe Cartoon’s Frog in a Blender

A tiny Flash cartoon could become a shared office dare.

Source: Joe Cartoon
  • Flash, animated sites, and e-mailed links made the browser feel like a strange little stage rather than a static document.
  • The dot-com boom was at full volume, while a few viral jokes were already proving that a tiny home page could overwhelm its own server.
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Joe Cartoon’s green cartoon frog sitting inside a blue blender

Video · Interactive Flash gross-out comedy

Frog in a Blender

A cartoon frog talked trash from a blender; dial-up users were invited to find out how many speeds the joke had.

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