hooooooooooooooo...

February 16, 2016 8:10 AM

endless.horse
posted by nebulawindphone (34 comments total)

Ends unceremoniously at line 2^74,207,281 − 1.
posted by Wolfdog at 8:14 AM on February 16, 2016 [4 favorites]

that's not funny. I have other work to do, so, just quit it.
posted by mule98J at 8:14 AM on February 16, 2016

Deaddove.gif
posted by saturday_morning at 8:15 AM on February 16, 2016 [4 favorites]

I mean, what else did you expect to find at the url "endless.horse"?
posted by Dysk at 8:16 AM on February 16, 2016

rse.

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posted by phunniemee at 8:20 AM on February 16, 2016 [58 favorites]

We're going to run out of bits and bytes one day ya'know.

Future generations will look back at our wanton wastage with disgust.
posted by RolandOfEld at 8:20 AM on February 16, 2016 [5 favorites]

Endlessthis.horse
posted by klausman at 8:21 AM on February 16, 2016 [7 favorites]

Somebody needs to get off their high horse.
posted by taz at 8:21 AM on February 16, 2016 [4 favorites]

This is just another viral ad for "Mane N Tail" conditioner.
posted by mittens at 8:22 AM on February 16, 2016

traceroute bad.horse
posted by cjorgensen at 8:27 AM on February 16, 2016 [3 favorites]

well, fuck you and fuck the horse you rode in on ... uh ... just fuck you, ok?
posted by pyramid termite at 8:29 AM on February 16, 2016 [2 favorites]

An Interrupting cow will fix this.
posted by Kabanos at 8:29 AM on February 16, 2016 [12 favorites]

<!--
endless.horse
Colleen Josephson and Kyle Miller, 2015
Created during the West Coast Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon
-->

http://www.stupidhackathon.com/
posted by stobor at 8:30 AM on February 16, 2016 [15 favorites]

I find myself wishing for an endless giraffe. But not for an endless snake, because side scrolling is just the worst.
posted by cubby at 8:46 AM on February 16, 2016 [6 favorites]

Look at that horse. That horse is amazing.

It tastes just like raisins.
posted by Joey Michaels at 8:50 AM on February 16, 2016 [5 favorites]

So this bit of information amused me more than it should have:

I looked up the IP address of endless.horse and then did a reverse lookup on the IP. The reverse lookup was endless.horse. So it would seem someone may have actually dedicated an entire IP address - a scarce resource these days - to just this.
posted by NormieP at 9:01 AM on February 16, 2016 [3 favorites]

I was all agog, and looked at the source code.

So elegant.
So Short.*


[!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"]
[html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"]
[!--
endless.horse
Colleen Josephson and Kyle Miller, 2015
Created during the West Coast Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon
--]
[head]
[meta name="hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorse"
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8;
Author: Colleen Josephson" /]
[title]hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorse[/title]
[link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.png" /]
[script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"][/script]
[script src="/jquery.jscroll.js"][/script]
[style type="text/css"]
pre { margin: 0; }
.centered { width: 380px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; }
h1 { text-align: center; }
[/style]
[script type="text/javascript"]
$(function () {
$('#horse').jscroll({
padding: 2000,
loadingHtml: ''
});
});
[/script]
[/head]
[body]
[div id="horse" class="centered" style="padding-top: 222px"]
[pre] ,
_,,)\.~,,._
(()` ``)\))),,_
| \ ''((\)))),,_ ____
|6` | ''((\())) "-.____.-" `-.-,
| .'\ ''))))' \)))
| | `. '' ((((
\, _) \/ |))))
`' | (((((
\ | ))))))
`| | ,\ /((((((
| / `-.______.< \ | )))))
| | / `. \ \ ((((
| / \ | `.\ | (((
\ | | | )| | ))
| | | | || | '[/pre]
[a href="legs.html"][/a]
[/div]
[/body]
[/html]


*All HTML <> Replaced with [ ]
posted by Faintdreams at 9:04 AM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

Does jscroll automatically load the link at the end of the div? How is that specified? I've been trying to find decent documentation for jscroll, and I'm not having very much luck.
posted by NormieP at 9:05 AM on February 16, 2016

Q: How do you keep a horse hoof fetishist busy all day?
posted by Wolfdog at 9:17 AM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sadly, there is nothing to be found at my.endless.horse.
posted by me3dia at 9:58 AM on February 16, 2016

I looked up the IP address of endless.horse and then did a reverse lookup on the IP. The reverse lookup was endless.horse. So it would seem someone may have actually dedicated an entire IP address - a scarce resource these days - to just this.

Well, of course it did--otherwise the address wouldn't resolve to a knowable point in 3-space. And that would be putting Descartes before the .horse.
posted by Mayor West at 10:13 AM on February 16, 2016 [15 favorites]

Boo!
posted by Ipsifendus at 10:16 AM on February 16, 2016

Doesn't somebody have to pay money to host that page?
posted by SLC Mom at 10:43 AM on February 16, 2016

We're going to run out of bits and bytes one day ya'know.

Future generations will look back at our wanton wastage with disgust.

This reminds me of my brother's concern that I was taking pointless pictures and throwing away the limited read/write lifespan of some digital media (maybe on compact flash, back when I had less than a GB on a card, and used a 3GB "pocket drive" to back up those photos when on a trip). Now flash memory is dirt cheap, and I have a sizable collection of old flash memory cards in varying sizes.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:44 AM on February 16, 2016

phunniemee: rse.

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And now the internet has come to an end.





Oh wait, it hasn't? There's more?
posted by filthy light thief at 10:46 AM on February 16, 2016

my.lovely.horse
posted by Wolfdog at 10:56 AM on February 16, 2016

A horse is a horse, of course, of course...
yes, the closing credits on that clip includes an actor named Howard Wendell whom I did not know existed until now but apparently was the 10th listed cast member of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
posted by oneswellfoop at 11:48 AM on February 16, 2016 [2 favorites]

.horse domains are my favorite. sadly many of the ones that came out when it was released just over a year ago are expired. goodbye horse.horse. farewell horsehorse.horse. goodnight horsehorsehorse.horse. even whatis.horse is gone. I mourn thee all. iirc most of them were sort of ytmd style one-stop pages but they were all fun. glad to see bad.horse is still trucking though, and happy to see this site carrying on the torch

sadly nobody ever put party.horse to good use. and I may have snatched one up for my own nefarious uses, now also sadly expired
posted by suddenly, and without warning, at 11:58 AM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

I really feel we have Jeph Jacques to thank for popularizing .horse domains.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:03 PM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

I really feel we have Jeph Jacques to thank for popularizing .horse domains.

there were tons of .horse domains taken right out of the gate (har har). maybe he popularized it on a larger level, but i had multiple friends literally waiting for it to be released and those sites i mentioned previously were all up almost immediately. of course, maybe i just have weird friends, and too much time to type in [randomword].horse

still, I think a ".horse" domain just sort of lends itself to immediate tomfoolery
posted by suddenly, and without warning, at 12:09 PM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

chatroom.horse is dead too. wah.
posted by joeyh at 12:42 PM on February 16, 2016

NormieP: "Does jscroll automatically load the link at the end of the div? How is that specified? I've been trying to find decent documentation for jscroll, and I'm not having very much luck."

Looking at the source what it does is when a certain scrolling event takes place to look for the very last "a" element in the div, fetch the value of the href attribute, and append it to the containing div. So normally the data that's fetched would end with its own "a" element pointing to a different place, thus enabling the scroll. I expect (but I'm not testing this now) that you would need to send an "a" with no "href" to get the scrolling to end.

The hooooorse thing abuses this simple mechanism by hardcoding a static legs page with no "a" tag inside it. So every time you hit the "fetch more data" scroll event, it looks for the last "a" element in the div, which never changes. Cute.
posted by rouftop at 9:24 PM on February 16, 2016 [1 favorite]

would be a sight to see if using that shaky app on the hackathon site would become a standard requirement for all selfies.
posted by speakeasy at 10:56 PM on February 16, 2016

This isn't very clever. More funny would be an infinite web page, followed by a traceroute adventure, followed by some whois nonsense, ...
posted by iffthen at 3:03 AM on February 18, 2016