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| Zombo.com was started in 1999 and is one of the oldest Web sites on the Internet today. It has remained unchanged since it was created and continues to puzzle and delight visitors to this day. | |||
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| == The Unattainable is Possible == | |||
| '''Zombo.com''' is a website that was created during the early days of ] on the ]. While many websites had a Flash intro that would play while the site loaded, Zombo took the concept to a humorous extreme, consisting of one long intro that never leads to any content.<ref>{{Citation |last=Green |first=Tom |last2=Dias |first2=Tiago |year=2010 |title=Foundation Flash CS5 for Designers |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-4302-2994-0 |page=758}}</ref> | |||
| Zombo.com consists of a "blank" page, a colorful title, and a Flash animation of seven colorful discs that pulsate, hinting at rotation. An audio file in which a man welcomes the visitor to "Zombocom" loops indefinitely. | |||
| Video game producer ]<ref>{{Citation |last=Mackintosh |first=Hamish |date=22 August 2002 |title=WORKING IT OUT - WAR GAMES |work=] |page=4 |id={{Factiva|grdn000020020821dy8m001nj}} |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/aug/22/onlinesupplement |accessdate=26 July 2011}}</ref> and artist ] have each listed Zombo as their favorite website; Rowntree explains, "I think that paraphrases the net. Promises you the earth but delivers a bit of animation with a scratchy soundtrack!"<ref>{{Citation |last=Mackintosh |first=Hamish |date=5 April 2001 |title=INTERVIEW - Dave Rowntree |work=] |page=4 |id={{Factiva|grdn000020010712dx4500kap}} |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/apr/05/onlinesupplement1 |accessdate=26 July 2011}}</ref> Web animator ] chose Zombo.com as the least useful website, since "it doesn't do anything except tell you how wonderful it is."<ref>{{Citation |last=Veitch |first=Joel |date=20 January 2003 |title=My New Media |work=] |page=51 |id={{Factiva|grdn000020030121dz1k000ce}} |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/jan/20/mondaymediasection8 |accessdate=26 July 2011}}</ref> Mark Sullivan of '']'' listed Zombo among the Internet's ten most useless websites, concluding: "Well, in fact, nothing happens at zombo.com."<ref>{{Citation |last=Sullivan |first=Mark |date=2 October 2008 |title=The Bottom 10: The Web's Most Useless Sites |work=] |url=http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=5934184 |accessdate=25 July 2011}}</ref> Samela Harris of '']'' calls Zombo.com "the most welcoming website on the Internet",<ref>{{Citation |last=Harris |first=Samela |date=20 October 2004 |title=Internut |work=] |page=L14 |id={{Factiva|ADVTSR0020041019e0ak0009d}}}}</ref> while Daryl Lim of '']'' calls Zombo.com "the ultimate time-waster".<ref>{{Citation |last=Lim |first=Daryl |date=13 February 2007 |title=Nothing to do? Check out these five weird websites |work=] |id={{Factiva|COMPTI0020070212e32d0000d}}}}</ref> A listing in '']'' writes, "Zombo.com has just one joke, but it's a good one."<ref>{{Citation |author=Staff |date=22 April 2003 |title=Surf IT |work=] |id={{Factiva|austln0020030421dz4m000ms}}}}</ref> | |||
| After evaluation of the cycle results in both time and color, it was found that the frequency is 3.14159 -- otherwise known as ]. Additionally, the outer discs appear to revolve both clockwise and counterclockwise depending on how you look at them -- implying that the creator understood how to fabricate bistable optical illusions like ]. These illusions are typically tuned and are not likely to occur by chance. The combination of the frequency and the illusion add to the mystery of the Web site. | |||
| In 2004, political ]s caused Conservitives.com to redirect to Zombo.com.<ref>{{Citation |last=Auty |first=Caroline |year=2004 |title=Political hacktivism: tool of the underdog or scourge of cyberspace? |journal=Aslib Proceedings |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=212–221 |doi=10.1108/00012530410549240}}</ref> | |||
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| After some time the option to buy Zombo.com T-shirts (or to sign up for the "newZletter") appears. If nothing is selected, the loop resumes. | |||
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Revision as of 06:46, 3 August 2011
Zombo.com was started in 1999 and is one of the oldest Web sites on the Internet today. It has remained unchanged since it was created and continues to puzzle and delight visitors to this day.
The Unattainable is Possible
Zombo.com consists of a "blank" page, a colorful title, and a Flash animation of seven colorful discs that pulsate, hinting at rotation. An audio file in which a man welcomes the visitor to "Zombocom" loops indefinitely.
After evaluation of the cycle results in both time and color, it was found that the frequency is 3.14159 -- otherwise known as pi. Additionally, the outer discs appear to revolve both clockwise and counterclockwise depending on how you look at them -- implying that the creator understood how to fabricate bistable optical illusions like The Spinning Dancer. These illusions are typically tuned and are not likely to occur by chance. The combination of the frequency and the illusion add to the mystery of the Web site.
Changes
After some time the option to buy Zombo.com T-shirts (or to sign up for the "newZletter") appears. If nothing is selected, the loop resumes.