Zombo.com??

aussie rocket · Jan 13, 2008

the weirdest thing just happened to me.

I typed pearljam.net into my URL looking for the bands home website.

(I should of put pearljam.com, but i got it confused)

when i pressed enter it re-directed me to this page that looked like it was trying to hypnotise the viewer...

there was this swirling rainbow coloured image in the centre of the screen, ZOMBO.COM written in massive letters at the top that were shaking around, and a freaky male voice repeatedly saying "welcome to zombo, we knew you could make it" or something to that effect ...just creepy

i clicked out of it pretty quickly for fear of spyware and stuff.

anyone seen this kinda thing pop up when you've misspelled a URL or something?

Uprising · Jan 13, 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/05/21/136702.aspx

http://digg.com/design/This_is_Zombo_com

Uprising · Jan 13, 2008

The unattainable is unknown at zombo.com

Mr. Brightside · Jan 13, 2008

zombo com is my hero.

Poloshirtbandit · Jan 13, 2008

You can do anything... anything at all.

professorjay · Jan 13, 2008

Can somebody pass me the Kool-Aid?

rodrick_98 · Jan 13, 2008

badgerbadgerbadger.com is still the best.

aussie rocket · Jan 14, 2008

thanks for letting me know

i just find it weird. not my sense of humor at all.

Mr. Brightside · Jan 14, 2008

aussie rocket said:

thanks for letting me know

i just find it weird. not my sense of humor at all.
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you must trust in Zombo. it will let you free.

Oski2005 · Jan 14, 2008

aussie rocket said:

thanks for letting me know

i just find it weird. not my sense of humor at all.
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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 colours. 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.
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