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besson3c · Mar 15, 2009, 07:03 PM

A friend of mine just introduced me to this inspirational new website. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Don't worry, it's not a Rick Roll site!

Spheric Harlot · Mar 15, 2009, 07:07 PM

It's also ten years old.

besson3c · Mar 15, 2009, 07:11 PM

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it's new...

lyanma · Mar 15, 2009, 09:00 PM

I can do anything at..ZOMBO COM

besson3c · Mar 15, 2009, 09:03 PM

You can do anything you want there. Anything.

Hg2491 · Mar 15, 2009, 09:04 PM

Am I missing something? I know for sure Zombo was hitting on me.. =/.

Spheric Harlot · Mar 16, 2009, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure it's new...

The domain was registered AT LEAST in 1999, and I'm pretty sure I heard about it then, or thereabouts.

besson3c · Mar 16, 2009, 08:57 AM

Well, maybe the owner was just sitting on it until the last month or two when he put up this site?

Eug · Mar 16, 2009, 09:04 AM

Not sure if you're being serious or not, but if you're being serious, I visited that site many years ago too.

Dakar V · Mar 16, 2009, 09:11 AM

I've been here too long. I knew the site posted before I even clicked the thread...

osiris · Mar 16, 2009, 10:18 AM

I knew that you knew about the site before you even clicked the thread.

besson3c · Mar 16, 2009, 10:45 AM

It's a nice site, huh?

Dakar V · Mar 16, 2009, 10:51 AM

I wouldn't know. I've mastered the art of the mouseover.

osiris · Mar 16, 2009, 12:31 PM

Well, I just spent a half hour gazing at Zombo.
While I was there I sensed a major disturbance in the force, but all is well now.
But now I have a strange craving for gherkins - and I hate gherkins. I suspect subliminal mind trickery.

LegendaryPinkOx · Mar 16, 2009, 12:35 PM

The voice stops after a while.

residentEvil · Mar 16, 2009, 06:28 PM

Zombo.com is a humorous website created on October 10, 1999. The site consists solely of a single Flash animation of the website's title and seven circles of alternating colors. The animation's voice-over, which has a vague Caribbean accent, repeatedly welcomes the viewer to the web site and claims that the viewer can do anything they want without any limitations at Zombo.com. However, when the introduction is finished, instead of a link to the main Zombo.com website, it simply provides a link to the defunct Zombo.com newsletter for a few seconds and then goes back to the start. The dot (".") in the URL is not pronounced in the animation; instead the site is referred to as "Zombocom". The site has become well known as an Internet phenomenon.

The site is believed by some to be a parody of much of the advertising of the dot-com boom, as it seems to hype up an interesting service but does not offer one. However, its creator, Josh Levine of 15footstick.com, intended it to be nothing more than a piece of absurdist comedy.

As for the site's name, Levine has explained it thusly in an email from 2001:

well as it turns out zombo is an african word, a region in angola and an african surname amongst other things. i chose the name based on a different definition however. a friend of mine used the word, "zombo" to refer to a male zombie (a zombie being female) which is what she learned in her english class. she also learned from this same teacher that bartender is used for the male gender and bartendee the female.

i thought that this little apparent misconception was so cool that i decided to make a song about zombo:

everyone knows he is zombo /no no he's not zoro /zoro leaves a mark that's a z /but zombo doesn't leave anything /zoro needs a mask just to see /but zombo doesn't need anything...

and when it came time to name the web site the name zombo just sort of popped up.

In the same email Levine mentioned that he does not intend to change the site from its current form.

besson3c · Mar 16, 2009, 07:36 PM

residentEvil: it really doesn't make the site sound very fun and inspirational when it is described like that

lyanma · Mar 16, 2009, 07:41 PM

besson, it doesn't matter...remember that we can do ANYTHING at Zombocom.

besson3c · Mar 16, 2009, 07:58 PM

I did three somersaults this morning after going to Zombocom!

lyanma · Mar 16, 2009, 09:13 PM

I went to the future after going to Zombocom!

besson3c · Mar 17, 2009, 01:12 PM

The voice does eventually change after 4 hours and 21 minutes Try it!

besson3c · Mar 17, 2009, 01:20 PM

Have you guys seen http://www.obmoz.com ?

calverson · Mar 18, 2009, 05:52 PM

Besson, apparently, the guy that owns it wants five figure digits for it.

Hg2491 · Mar 18, 2009, 06:43 PM

Oh it's on between Zombo and Obmoz!

lyanma · Mar 18, 2009, 10:00 PM

I really just wonder, why have I spent like an hour listening to Zombo.

besson3c · Mar 18, 2009, 10:18 PM

You need to listen to it for at least that long for things to start to happen.

lyanma · Mar 18, 2009, 10:23 PM

Yeah, really?
Things like what?

Hg2491 · Mar 18, 2009, 10:32 PM

Things lyanma, just things. Are you questioning the power of the Zombocom?

lyanma · Mar 18, 2009, 10:49 PM

No, never!
I'm actually questioning your knowledge.

besson3c · Mar 21, 2009, 10:26 AM

Well, I was able to lift a car, which I did to save a baby that was playing under a car.

Hg2491 · Mar 21, 2009, 11:42 AM

Was the car about to explode?

lyanma · Mar 21, 2009, 08:40 PM

You managed to take the baby out alive?
...or did you smash the baby with your uncontrolable super-strength causing his death while you were trying to save him?

besson3c · Mar 22, 2009, 01:07 AM

Well, I didn't lift the car with my arms, I jacked it up with my penis. It was about to explode, but after jacking up the car I did a dive roll under the car, pulled the baby out, did a back flip, and then did another dive, shielding the baby from the explosion.

Then I got so excited that I dropped the baby. He was okay though. I also gave some crackers to a homeless person.

Hg2491 · Mar 22, 2009, 01:56 AM

Wait, you have a penis?!

Tiresias · Mar 22, 2009, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot

It's also ten years old.

Why is it that things on the Internet have to be either new or not worth talking about? No one takes this line with those other products of culture, books and movies.

"Have you read War and Peace?"

"Er, excuse me, that book is 150 years old. Hello"

Spheric Harlot · Mar 22, 2009, 06:21 AM

True.

I guess it's just that it's, well, been there for ten years, and is something of a classic since before most people even *got* on the internet.

My reaction came from the sort of response you might have when somebody writes about having just heard about the Rolling Stones. You know, "they've been around longer than pretty much anything else out there." And from the fact that besson is a computer freak, and it's rather surprising that he's never run across zombo.

No meanness intended.

Laminar · Mar 22, 2009, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot

And from the fact that besson is a computer freak, and it's rather surprising that he's never run across zombo.

Well, you're taking his post seriously, which is often a mistake. Also, I'm glad besson and the 15-year-olds are having a blast in this thread.

lyanma · Mar 22, 2009, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Also, I'm glad besson and the 15-year-olds are having a blast in this thread.

Wow, now I'm 15! Seems to be that I'm getting older.

Hg2491 · Mar 23, 2009, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Also, I'm glad besson and the 15-year-olds are having a blast in this thread.

I'm offended. I'm 15 years and 4 months old.

You can join us

.

calverson · Mar 23, 2009, 05:08 AM

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot

And from the fact that besson is a computer phreak.

analogika · Mar 23, 2009, 06:26 AM

No.

lyanma · Mar 23, 2009, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

no.

ok?

Hg2491 · Mar 23, 2009, 11:48 AM

Are Laminar and Analogika the same person?

Laminar · Mar 23, 2009, 12:19 PM

Yes.

Hg2491 · Mar 23, 2009, 01:15 PM

Ugh. The very first time I posted in the forums with another user you basically ate me up. I hated Analogika for months.

You choice of words or the lack of them is recognizable.

Laminar · Mar 23, 2009, 02:01 PM

I also go by Dakar on occasion.

Hg2491 · Mar 23, 2009, 11:18 PM

Wait. You are also Dakar?

Dakar V · Mar 23, 2009, 11:26 PM

Yes.

besson3c · Mar 23, 2009, 11:28 PM

No, I'm besson3c, and I'm superior to Laminar who is immature, and also Dakar and all of the other Dakars.

Hg2491 · Mar 23, 2009, 11:28 PM

All the meanness in the forums come back to YOU. If only we could take you out of the equation... Just kidding, you are a nice addition to the forums.