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ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
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YouTube?! Surely you mean Flash! This came from the creator Weebl who had a ton of great Flash animations on his website. Actually I can’t believe it, but the website is still up in 2024!

http://weebls-stuff.com/

Here’s the badgers one specifically: http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/badgers-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

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fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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Flash? I remember shockwave.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
21 points

I remember Macromedia.

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PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium

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elephantium@lemmy.world
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Speak for yourself. I, for one, do not miss needing to suffer through intro animations before the real site would load, “designed for Internet Explorer 4”, or the endless ad popups of the era.

Points for nostalgia though

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RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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Fuck… me… I forgot how terrible that was.

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I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).

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z500@startrek.website
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I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?

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Pirky@lemmy.world
22 points

I remember watching this pre-youtube as well, but it was in ebaumsworld.com
It looked very different back in the day.
Another classic song is the llama song. I remember a friend showing that to me in '04.

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peanutyam@lemmy.world
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Also used to muck around with Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave Flash games all around the same time as badger badger badger….ahh memories ….when the internet was simply for nerds 😂

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Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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Joe Cartoon was an old internet staple. The website still exists but everything has been converted to movies, isn’t quite the same without the interaction

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nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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And homestarrunner was the granddaddy of it all.

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ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
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I’m not sure if I’ve seen that one, I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

Is it this one? http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/alpaca-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

Or maybe you were referring to the Llamas In Hats series? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE8C175E9FAAA34A

I was always partial to the Amazing Horse one for some reason. http://weebls-stuff.com/toons/amazing-horse-animated-music-video-mrweebl/

I used to listen to it for hours and a weird quirk of Flash animations was that often the audio track and the video were milliseconds off so over time it would get very out of sync.

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Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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Ebaumsworld is where 14- to 17-year-old me spent most of my time in those days. The forum was my introduction to internet message boards. Will always have a spot spot there.

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Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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“Kenya believe it!?”

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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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Badger badger badger predates YouTube

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eldain@feddit.nl
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We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.

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Venator@lemmy.nz
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Badger by AlbinoBlackSheep (John Picking)

Publication date: 2003-09-01

https://archive.org/details/flash_badger

Youtube Founded: February 14, 2005

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

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eldain@feddit.nl
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Thank you. I must have been late to the badger party in 2006 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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TheHarpyEagle@lemmy.world
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Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.

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Thteven@lemmy.world
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JackbyDev@programming.dev
6 points

Here for the senior discount?

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JoeKis@lemmy.world
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Practically dead 💀

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capital@lemmy.world
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doot doot

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MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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That baby is 29 now

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vrek@programming.dev
35 points

Why is there only one badger and not three? Why is there no snake ?

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Zoot@reddthat.com
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Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we’re missing like 3/4 of the picture mate

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eerongal@ttrpg.network
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but this meme predates youtube, though…

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