It's a Wonderful Internet

December 18, 2005 2:52 PM

It's a Wonderful Internet. A re-telling of a charming Christmas tale that modern day geeks can now relate to! [flash]
posted by panoptican (29 comments total)

Via Perfect Duluth Day.
posted by panoptican at 2:55 PM on December 18, 2005

yoda mugg at the end is priceless
posted by Hands of Manos at 3:10 PM on December 18, 2005

Told u I was hardcore.

That was awesome, I almost don't want to spoil it by mentioning how good the appearance of that politician was. And I wish that genre of mysterious music had a name so I could download lots of it.
posted by fire&wings at 3:24 PM on December 18, 2005

Is he reading metafilter at the end?
posted by Hildegarde at 3:28 PM on December 18, 2005

It sure looks like it.
posted by interrobang at 3:34 PM on December 18, 2005

He is totally reading mefi on the last page.
posted by arcticwoman at 3:35 PM on December 18, 2005

That was great. I loved the narration (sounded like someone famous even). The Al Gore joke, as always, was kinda lame though.
posted by mathowie at 3:39 PM on December 18, 2005

The last page is the ant farm site, which also has a bit of blue on it.
posted by mathowie at 3:40 PM on December 18, 2005

ten minutes well spent...thanks.......!

Puts this whole holiday thing in perspective...from now on it's gonna be "Happy OnLine Day!"...
posted by HuronBob at 3:44 PM on December 18, 2005

Yeah, it's definitely the ant farm site. Zoom in a little and that becomes fairly obvious.
posted by panoptican at 3:46 PM on December 18, 2005

pdd represent!
heh, when I say the fpp the first thing I thought, was "hey, pan is from this neck of the woods and that link is on pdd." Sure enough
posted by edgeways at 3:49 PM on December 18, 2005

the voiceover kinda sounded like Jean Shepherd.

"There's a girl who's got a fiiiiine/round beeeehiiiiind. Boot-boot-booty-O!" slays.
posted by carsonb at 3:49 PM on December 18, 2005

Just awful.
posted by zerolives at 3:50 PM on December 18, 2005

No doubt edgeways.

*pdd gang signs*

Sadly, we're the only active ones on MeFi from this neck of the woods.
posted by panoptican at 3:57 PM on December 18, 2005

You should hover over everything -- before and after any page change controls -- to get every little easter egg.

Boo-boo-boodio!
posted by dhartung at 4:00 PM on December 18, 2005

Firstly, the author deserves to be visited by the Ghosts of Bad Writing for trying to rhyme "kicked in" and "evicted."

Secondly, was this just a viral ad for some internet company? I thought he was going to start yelling "Come back zinc!!!" at the end.
posted by evilcolonel at 4:04 PM on December 18, 2005

great! and for some internet company, Ant Farm is pretty cool.
posted by FeldBum at 4:44 PM on December 18, 2005

What was with that "My name is Al Gore, and I invented the internet" part?
posted by Anamith at 5:00 PM on December 18, 2005

Anamith: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

He didn't claim to have invented the internet, just promoted it through political action.
posted by Kickstart70 at 6:04 PM on December 18, 2005

that was really boring and not very funny or clever at all.
posted by nickerbocker at 8:39 PM on December 18, 2005

So the moral is savour the internet or you will lose your Radiohead and Bjork CDs and kill yourself, right?
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 8:46 PM on December 18, 2005

The voiceover when you float your mouse cursor over the coffee cup is semi-random... it has a couple of "common" sounds, and then some less common ones... I heard at least three that didn't happen often. I won't spoil them.... but some of them are pretty funny. :)
posted by Malor at 8:54 PM on December 18, 2005

So the moral is savour the internet or you will lose your Radiohead and Bjork CDs and kill yourself, right?

Pretty much, yeah.
posted by jokeefe at 9:04 PM on December 18, 2005

I already loved this, but then I realized (after reading the other comments) that I totally missed all the easter eggs. It was even BETTER than I thought!
posted by easternblot at 10:30 PM on December 18, 2005

Nifty...but I was bad and failed to mouseover anything...so I'm going back for more!
posted by davidmsc at 10:47 PM on December 18, 2005

I wish the audio easter eggs only played when you clicked on objects instead of when you hovered over them. There were a few spots where I accidentally hovered over something and the noise drowned out the narration and the resulting mix was a bit annoying. It was cute though.
posted by LeeJay at 10:59 PM on December 18, 2005

I'm quite impressed with how well this feels like a pop-up book.
posted by Peter H at 9:05 AM on December 19, 2005

"I wish I could bitch about this in my Blog"
posted by lenny70 at 3:51 PM on December 19, 2005

I'm quite impressed with how well this feels like a pop-up book.

Agreed.

that was really boring and not very funny or clever at all.

Agreed.
posted by nobody at 4:10 PM on December 20, 2005