What's the name of single page joke sites?
March 10, 2005 9:09 AM Subscribe
Is there an official name for the new crop of gag sites like khaaan.com, sinkingship.com, dontforgetpoland.com and uweboll.com? With really low domain and hosting prices these days, they seem to be everywhere.
Do we just call them "gag sites"?
Do we just call them "gag sites"?
Best answer: Uweboll.com is my favorite of this trend, simply because it's so minimalist. I'd like to see it stay that way, but I bet it won't for too long.
As for your question, I don't think there's a name for this kind of joke domains. You can call them JokeDomains (TM), but you'll owe me royalties. "Gag sites" works, too.
posted by Plutor at 9:18 AM on March 10, 2005
As for your question, I don't think there's a name for this kind of joke domains. You can call them JokeDomains (TM), but you'll owe me royalties. "Gag sites" works, too.
posted by Plutor at 9:18 AM on March 10, 2005
How about "Ponies" or "pony sites"? As in "one trick..."?
posted by indiebass at 9:23 AM on March 10, 2005
posted by indiebass at 9:23 AM on March 10, 2005
I don't know what you call these sites, but here's my favorite... still classic. (link contains sound: heads up for those of you pretending to be working)
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 9:40 AM on March 10, 2005
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 9:40 AM on March 10, 2005
Fuzzy, thanks. That brought up my all-time favorite Websense blocking message at work:
Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Tasteless" is filtered.
URL: http://yourethemannowdog.com/
posted by sachinag at 9:51 AM on March 10, 2005
Access to this web page is restricted at this time.
Reason: The Websense category "Tasteless" is filtered.
URL: http://yourethemannowdog.com/
posted by sachinag at 9:51 AM on March 10, 2005
For a while you could make your own Yourethemannowdog style pages at ytmnd.com. They called those [loop+uglytext+repeating gif] pages "ytmnd's". Ytmnd just goes to the classic start-of-it-all [^] page now.
The best one ever http://getyourasstomars.com/ . You'll need to dust off IE to look at it.
posted by 31d1 at 11:10 AM on March 10, 2005
The best one ever http://getyourasstomars.com/ . You'll need to dust off IE to look at it.
posted by 31d1 at 11:10 AM on March 10, 2005
Damn. http://markie.biz doesn't work anymore. All it said on it was "you say he's just a friend".
posted by bitpart at 12:07 PM on March 10, 2005
posted by bitpart at 12:07 PM on March 10, 2005
Response by poster: Ok, I guess JokeDomains™ is it! :-) Now the next question is: What are your favourite JokeDomains™?
posted by timyang at 4:10 PM on March 10, 2005
posted by timyang at 4:10 PM on March 10, 2005
Nevermind, should have googled before posting... Never heard of Uwe Boll...
posted by amro at 4:53 PM on March 10, 2005
posted by amro at 4:53 PM on March 10, 2005
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posted by timyang at 9:11 AM on March 10, 2005