Zombo.com

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Zombo.com
Flash animation
languages English
operator http://www.O-ZoneInc.com
On-line 1999
http://www.zombo.com/

Zombo.com (also Zombocom , ZomboCom or just Zombo ) is a single-serving website that was launched in 1998 when Flash animation was a new technology. Originally developed as a fun website for the faculty and student body at the George Washington University Center for Professional Development , it parodies Flash introductory web pages that were displayed while the rest of the page content was loading, which was widespread at the time.

Zombo.com takes this concept to the (humorous) extreme, because the website consists only of a long start page that shows the logo and a flashing flash-animated loading circle and then to the text "Sign Up For The NewZLetter" (German: Trag dich in introduces the NewZLetter ). Meanwhile, music is playing in the background and a male voice speaks the familiar Zombo.com welcome message. The website has not changed since it was made public in 1999.

content

Zombo.com consists of a white page, on which you only see the colorful lettering and a flash animation of seven colored, pulsating circles. The audio clip lasts 105 seconds, in which the speaker welcomes the visitor twelve times to Zombocom with increasing enthusiasm. Then there is the option to register for a "NewZLetter". This can be seen as a continuation of the joke, because a click will lead you to http://www.zombo.com/join1.htmwhere the visitor will be told that this option does not work and will be thanked for their patience. This is done in the same humorous spelling as "NewZLetter" ( ThankZ for your patience ). The HTML markup of the site also includes the comment: "Please Visit http://www.15footstick.comour other website Thankz" ( "Please visit http://www.15footstick.comour other website, thank you" ) that leads to an old parody page.

Transcript

"Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome. This is ZomboCom; welcome ... to ZomboCom. You can do anything at ZomboCom. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This is ... ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom! This is ZomboCom, welcome! Yes ... this ... is ZomboCom. This is ZomboCom! And welcome to you, who have come to ZomboCom. Anything ... is possible ... at ZomboCom. You can do ... anything at ZomboCom. The infinite is possible at ZomboCom. The unattainable is unknown at ZomboCom. Welcome to ZomboCom. This ... is ZomboCom. Welcome to ZomboCom. Welcome. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom! Welcome ... to ZomboCom. "

"Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome. This is ZomboCom; welcome ... to ZomboCom. You can do anything at ZomboCom. Everything you want. The only limit is you. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. This is ZomboCom, welcome! Yes ... this ... is ZomboCom. This is ZomboCom! And welcome to you who have come to ZomboCom. Everything ... is possible ... at ZomboCom. You can ... do anything at ZomboCom. The infinite is possible at ZomboCom. The unattainable is unknown here at ZomboCom. Welcome to ZomboCom. This ... is ZomboCom. Welcome to ZomboCom. Welcome. This ... is ... ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. Welcome ... to ZomboCom. "

popularity

Video game producer Bill Roper , Matthew Inman (founder of The Oatmeal ) and drummer Dave Rowntree each named Zombo.com as their favorite website, Rowntree said: "I think zombo.com rewrites the net. It promises you the whole world and delivers a little Animation with a scratchy soundtrack. " Web animator Joel Veitch chose Zombo.com as the most useless website in 2003 because "it doesn't do anything but tell you how wonderful it is." Ian McClelland, currently Managing Director of the Australian Guardian , did the same in the same column two years earlier, saying "completely useless, absolutely brilliant". Mark Sullivan of PC-Welt listed Zombo.com as one of the ten most useless websites, saying "Well, actually nothing happens at zombo.com." Samela Harris from advertisers Zombo.com calls "the most inviting Web site on the Internet" and Daryl Lim of Digital Life calls Zombo.com "the ultimate time waster." The Australian writes, "Zombo.com only has one joke, but it's a good one." In 2016, Zombo.com was outshot for US radio host Jesse Thorn. Randall Munroe covers Zombocom in xkcd no. 855 , in which he compares the history and the first few hours of the website with those of Facebook from the film The Social Network .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Green, Tom; Dias, Tiago (2010), Foundation Flash CS5 for Designers, Apress, p. 758, ISBN 978-1-4302-2994-0
  2. ↑ Hamish Mackintosh: WORKING IT OUT - WAR GAMES . In: The Guardian . August 22, 2002. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  3. ↑ Mark Remy: An Interview With The Oatmeal . Rodale Incorporated. 4th September 2013.
  4. ^ Hamish Mackintosh: INTERVIEW - Dave Rowntree . In: The Guardian . April 5, 2001. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  5. ^ Joel Veitch: My New Media . In: The Guardian . January 20, 2003. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
  6. ^ Ian McClelland appointed Managing Director, Guardian Australia . Guardian News and Media Limited.
  7. ^ Ian Maclelland, Laura Barton: My new media . Guardian News and Media Limited. October 21, 2001.
  8. ↑ Mark Sullivan: The Bottom 10: The Web's Most Useless Sites . In: PC world . October 2, 2008. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  9. ↑ Harris, Samela (20 October 2004), "Internut", The Advertiser , p. L14, Factiva ADVTSR0020041019e0ak0009d
  10. ↑ Lim, Daryl (February 13, 2007), "Nothing to do? Check out these five weird websites", Digital Life, Factiva COMPTI0020070212e32d0000d
  11. ^ Staff (April 22, 2003), "Surf IT", The Australian , Factiva austln0020030421dz4m000ms
  12. ^ Jesse Thorn: Bullseye with Jesse Thorn . Maximum fun. May 3, 2016.
  13. ↑ xkcd No. 855: 1999 , in: xkcd , February 2, 2011