#ebaumsworld

[blondebrainpowered]

48 cars in an elevator parking garage in Downtown Chicago’s business district. Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1936.

[hashtag-swag]

dandy's world dot com

i dont usually post my animations on tumblr but i am really proud of this one so

[hissynixxietelsm]

Correcting People on a Watermark for an Old, Yet Infamous Website

Lots of people are getting the position of the old Ebaum's World watermark wrong just by basing it off the Ebaumsworld.com music video (That famous cartoon featuring the Lemon Demon song), like Whang's "YTMND Vs. Ebaumsworld" thumbnail.

In reality, if you look at some old images just by searching hard enough, the watermark was on the bottom right and not on the bottom left, like this image I found on Flickr that contains a pixel perfect iteration of the watermark.

Other examples would be the beginning of Arfenhouse the Movie 6 and the "/V/ WARS IMPACT" comic that most people know as the birthplace of the "Idort" meme.

And lemme remind ya, I know better on some things but I don't know better on others, so I'm not really a good polymath of the old internet.

[rawrdotzip]

https://xuv8r.neocities.org

[xxloveyoutooxx]

web homes

which one would you choose?

[violent-j]

Gathering of the Juggalos, circa 2014.

[waybackwanderer]

skatedog.wmv "סקטמן" by "פספוסים" Nov 2003 Archived Media File 📀 🔊

[blazehedgehog]

Ever seen Dorkly.

I never really got in to sites like Dorkly, or CollegeHumor, or Funny or Die.

That was right around the era where "internet humor" started ramping up in full force. Outside of the limitations of what could be done on television, people went hog wild exploring the limits of taste with sloppy, cheap jokes that I didn't really care much for.

It was also the era of, like, Ebaumsworld, and the precursor to the modern internet, where everybody started to think it was okay to just steal whatever they saw because nobody on the internet owns anything. The commodification (and commercialization) of in-jokes. The birth of the modern interpretation of "meme."

I can't help but think those kinds of sites did a lot of long-term damage to us as a society. A lot of really nasty people pushed their agendas in the margins of "it's just a joke, bro." And some get very, very protective of their entertainment in a way that makes it hard to have a conversation about that stuff. They refuse to believe that something that made them laugh could ultimately be harmful.

So generally, I stayed far, far away.