Internet Fads

November 16, 2003

“A fad, for pur­poses of this arti­cle, is an idea or tech­nol­ogy which is briefly pop­u­lar, but can’t out­last its own nov­elty value. Once peo­ple get over the new­ness of it all, there isn’t really any­thing spe­cial left.”

I can remem­ber Point­cast, the screen­saver tech­nol­ogy as men­tioned in the fol­low­ing arti­cle and eLOL.com, both pro­grams that fea­tured “push” tech­nol­ogy. While Point­cast brought to your desk­top news and stock quotes, e-LOL (e-laughing out loud) pre­sented var­i­ous jokes, comics and quotes to brighten your day.

With that in mind, Frozen North via kuro5hin.org presents the Top 10 Inter­net Fads. 

2 comments

Interesting…oh, the good old days of Point­cast… :-)

by Dad on November 17, 2003 at 4:46 pm. Reply #

… and eLOL. (The Jokes Machine)

Remem­ber that?

http://5star.freeserve.com/Homehob/General/elol-screenshot.html

by kartooner on November 17, 2003 at 5:48 pm. Reply #

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