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It's All About the Pentiums
A computer-obsessed brag rap makes an ancient Pentium sound crucial.
Archive score94
Internet archive / 1999
Internet moments from 1999
Backdrop
The Internet in 1999
Year reference
Joe Cartoon’s Frog in a BlenderA 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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Archive picks
02
The God & Devil Show
God and the Devil got an animated web show, and every episode treated divine administration like a terrible office meeting.
Archive score90
03
Frog in a Blender
A cartoon frog in a blender invited viewers to control the speed of the joke.
Archive score88
04
The Bad Touch
Monkey-suited nuisances turn Paris sightseeing into a cartoonish music-video prank.
Archive score88
05
Mahir’s “I Kiss You” Homepage
A cheerful Turkish man’s earnest homepage and exuberant “I kiss you” greeting became one of the web’s first accidental celebrities.
Archive score82
06
Cat and Girl versus the Abandoned House
Dorothy Gambrell’s strip takes an abandoned house as the starting point for a concise absurdist exchange.
Archive score81
07
Zombo.com
An endless Flash introduction promised anything and delivered no actual site.
Archive score80
08
Something Awful
A deliberately ugly comedy site turned a recurring pile-on of jokes into an influential community.
Archive score80
09
Whassup?
Friends yelling a single greeting down the phone made a tiny bit of hangout chatter impossible to stop repeating.
Archive score79