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!
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.
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 badgerβ¦.ahh memories β¦.when the internet was simply for nerds π
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
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.
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.
To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage
I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol
Hampsterdance is one of my earliest memories of using the internet at the age of 4. I remember it being used in random videos a lot like Paralyzer and Dreamscape were.
I have a soft spot for music from tv show intros from the 70s and early 80s. The compositions and memorable melodies were something else.
I think maybe it was a legacy from the 70s movie soundtracks, where Ennio Morricone really showed how important soundtracks were to movies, but then TV shows had to do it in 30 seconds. I love the craftsmanship of it.
Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.
I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao
A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.
I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.
Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.
Yore, pfft, not sure on the exact year but predates badgers by some I'm sure. From rathergood.com/b3ta.com. My zimmerframe is parked in the corner btw!
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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/
Flash? I remember shockwave.
I remember Macromedia.
Oh shockwave games. The Internet peaked at the turn off the millennium
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
Fuck... me... I forgot how terrible that was.
I always thought shockwave was part of flash? I never understood the difference
Adobe jumbled them up after acquiring Macromedia, which itself had previously acquired both (shockwave from Macromind, flash from Futurewave).
I seem to remember a competitor, I think it was called 3DO or something?
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 badgerβ¦.ahh memories β¦.when the internet was simply for nerds π
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
And homestarrunner was the granddaddy of it all.
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.
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.
"Kenya believe it!?"
Badger badger badger predates YouTube
We shared the albinoblacksheep link on msn. Youtube existed, it was part of the rise of shockwave flash technology websites.
https://archive.org/details/flash_badger
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Thank you. I must have been late to the badger party in 2006 Β―_(γ)_/Β―
Memes traveled a bit slower in those days.
Ah, spent so many hours of my youth on albinoblacksheep. My first introduction to Lemon Demon among many other things.
Here for the senior discount?
Practically dead π
doot doot
That baby is 29 now
Why is there only one badger and not three? Why is there no snake ?
Where is the music? I only see the one mushroom too, we're missing like 3/4 of the picture mate
but this meme predates youtube, though...
To jump on the bandwagon, OP's showing their age. I can't remember where I first saw Badger Badger, but it was definitely pre-Youtube (or at least mainstream Youtube) when Flash was all the rage
Newgrounds maybe? Or ebaumsworld?
Possibly Newgrounds, I used to lurk around there a lot when I was younger
I remember seeing flash video like "End of the World" and "Bunny Kill" series on Miniclip and then later ArmorGames. I didn't even consider how far they predated YouTube until now lol
That's Newgrounds, OP, from the times before YT.
A proper Youtube of yore is Tony vs Paul
Alternatively: THIS IS THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN. ^(of ultimate destiny)!^
GOOD GUYS BAD GUYS AND EX-PLO-SIONS ^(as far as the eye can see)!^
AND ONLY ONE WILL SURVIVE ^(I wonder who it will be)!^
Hamster dance.
The Hampster Dance by Hampton and the Hampsters.
Hampsterdance is one of my earliest memories of using the internet at the age of 4. I remember it being used in random videos a lot like Paralyzer and Dreamscape were.
Me: 2008 wasn't that long ago. It was like a decade ago.
Also me: wait... That's 16 years π°
It's for sure older than that unfortunately.
September 1st 2003 apparently
Even older than I thought. I was thinking 2005
Thanks. Now I feel even older. I should have remembered it predating YouTube.
Honey Badgers don't care! Honey Badgers don't give a shit!
Come Charlie let's go to candy mouuunnntaaain
But, how big is your spoon?
Anyone remember Joe Cartoon? Superfly, Lump the no legged dog, Gerbil, and so on.
Frog in a blender
Remember penguin toss?
Showing age, the first thing that came to my mind was the old show The Wind in the Willows.
You mean the book?
The 1984 TV show based on the book is what I thought of when looking at this meme
Fantastic theme song, that show has
I have a soft spot for music from tv show intros from the 70s and early 80s. The compositions and memorable melodies were something else.
I think maybe it was a legacy from the 70s movie soundtracks, where Ennio Morricone really showed how important soundtracks were to movies, but then TV shows had to do it in 30 seconds. I love the craftsmanship of it.
Some of my favorites:
Benson
Taxi
Soap
Airwolf
Dallas
Airwolf's opening I've seen before; and the Dallas one is pretty great. Here are a couple I'll throw in to the mix:
Rupert note the interesting time signatures
Gormenghast the first and second books are excellent. The third is... different....
The Prisoner possibly the greatest (and surely the longest!) opening
"The prisoner" is quite wild from a music perspective and way ahead of it's time. Looks more like a 60s/70s series. Never saw it myself.
I guess it's not so decade dependent, but more about someone caring enough to make a good intro song.
Here are more TV themes that you didn't know you already knew:
Hill Street Blues
Round the Twist (this is the Epitome of early 1990s)
I watched Tim Burtons Batman in our local cinema.
Also my first contact with silly internet movies was the llama song.
π
Did carmeldansen become a thing before or after badgerbadger mushroom?
Anybody remember dafthands, and daftbodies?
Oh yes, I remember them. Every few years I remember the Badger song and play it for a while + some other catchy old Weebl's stuff like Amazing Horse, Where can you see lions (only in Kenya)... Oh god, the more I think about them the more I remember.
Apparently Badger Badger is from 2003.
Caramelldansen (gif + music) is from 2005.
Daft Hands from 2007.
Dancing Baby is even older, from 96 / 97.
I still want to somehow make Clippy real and murder him.
I found basgerbadger a long time after caramelldansen. Helicopter parents of the 90s/early thous with all the time limits and website blockers a parent could easily get their hands on lmao
A large part of my journey of becoming a nerd was figuring out how to disable those haha.
I had time limits, until my dad became too much of a drunk to care, and my mom was too disabled and incorrectly medicated to do anything.
Anyway, I was not introduced to carameldansen until dating an extreme weaboo girl who insisted on dressing me up as L from Death Note... whereas I found badgerbadger years earlier.
20s? 30s? A teenager? I'm assuming not 40s or older. anyway that picture is fucking adorable.
Yore, pfft, not sure on the exact year but predates badgers by some I'm sure. From rathergood.com/b3ta.com. My zimmerframe is parked in the corner btw!
https://youtu.be/zSQDR1yF3uQ?si=oiAgQXySjBbP-aaB
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Like a siren song, we all go back to the classics
you anteater ??
Anteater? That's clearly an aardvark.