Early Meme Site YTMND Has Been Resurrected With the Help of Fans (vice.com) 22
The popular early internet meme machine YTMND.com is back online after shutting down last May due to declining ad revenue and the site creator's ill health. Motherboard reports: Launched in 2001, YTMND was one of the early internet's first sources of viral content. Users could attach a gif, often animated but not always, to a piece of looping sound. Users could vote on these animations, share, or remix them. Its death was sad, a piece of early internet, gone forever. But over the last year, [the site's creator Max Goldberg] said fans helped him test the new site, find bugs, and pushed him for regular updates.
Goldberg said he rebuilt the site from the ground up, which is why it took the better part of a year. One of the biggest challenges was converting everything away from Flash, which Adobe is finally retiring this year. "That means YTMNDs play more reliably (and work on mobile phones!) and will also be future-compatible," Goldberg said. "The new player was written in a way that makes archiving a YTMND significantly easier, which opens up a lot of possibilities. I've also removed all social media and advertising from the site." He also replaced all the hardware that was running the site.
Goldberg said he rebuilt the site from the ground up, which is why it took the better part of a year. One of the biggest challenges was converting everything away from Flash, which Adobe is finally retiring this year. "That means YTMNDs play more reliably (and work on mobile phones!) and will also be future-compatible," Goldberg said. "The new player was written in a way that makes archiving a YTMND significantly easier, which opens up a lot of possibilities. I've also removed all social media and advertising from the site." He also replaced all the hardware that was running the site.
I thought "early" means late 90-ies (Score:2)
I struggle with my age
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This obviously isn't an April Fool's joke because there is no mention about PTKFGS being back up.
Glad that you're back, Captain Picard! [ytmnd.com]
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Jeff Goldblum Retriever [ytmnd.com]
PowerPoinTMND: Death Star Attack [ytmnd.com]
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Oh we're dropping YTMND links?
http://bedsidesurprise.ytmnd.c... [ytmnd.com]
https://nobodybeatshismeat.ytm... [ytmnd.com]
https://geticecream.ytmnd.com/ [ytmnd.com]
https://weareonline.ytmnd.com/ [ytmnd.com] -- we salute you
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R.I.P. Dr. Cacklefanny! Link it link it!
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Re: I thought "early" means late 90-ies (Score:2)
There was a gif period too and it was always fun to try to sync audio with the page load. Best you could do was hope for a refresh from cache.
Thankfully one of my handful of ytmnd creations is alive!
https://harryisthejoker.ytmnd.... [ytmnd.com]
For those wondering. (Score:4, Informative)
The acronym is for "You're the Man Now, Dog", referencing an odd line from Finding Forrester (clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Shorter version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Ryan Fenton
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All these years and I had no idea what this was referencing.
Thank you.
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I always wondered why. Was it the original meme on that site?
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It took me ages to watch finally watch that movie and it’s not bad.
2004 is back! (Score:2)
https://picard.ytmnd.com/ [ytmnd.com]
I feel so much better now knowing this will live on a bit longer.
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https://picard.ytmnd.com/ [ytmnd.com]
I feel so much better now knowing this will live on a bit longer.
Unlike his named series that survived on nostalgia and not much else. Still, not as bad as Discovery.
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> Still, not as bad as Discovery.
Isn't debating if Star Trek: Retard is worse then STD akin to arguing which cancer is worse: Pancreatic or Lung? It is just a matter of time before you are dead. /s
And Zombo! (Score:2)
And we also have Zombo.com back now via html5zombo.com [html5zombo.com]!
2001? (Score:2)
This is great news (Score:2)
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Any other /.ers have phrases they picked up from YTMND that are absolutely incomprehensible to others? My personal favorite and most impenetrable has to be:
"The thirty nations of the Poland empire stand against you! 599 US dollars will blot out the sun!"