I loved HSR. I still quote it occasionally at work, just to remind myself how old I am. We'd keep hitting tab all through the second watch trying to find the easter eggs that were within the videos.
You're not alone... I work with one of my old friends who I used to watch it with... The phrase "ooh ooh the email" is said more frequently that is healthy. I have a HSR sweatshirt somewhere...
I remember when I first started watching Homestar Runner. I was working at a consulting company just starting to build web site applications. So much fun.
Dude, great ending scene! I think you also captured the feeling of exploring that was present in those early internet days. I don't think that'll ever return.
Love it, this is going to be a great series. For Homestar Runner, I think I was a sophomore in college. We'd watch it in the morning in the computer lab on HP 9000 UNIX systems while we worked on circuit layout!
Home Star Runner was every day for me after school c 2001-2002 I was 15 and my friends and I would all go to my one friends house and watch these, and strongbad emails. We even downloaded a cracked copy of macromedia flash of line wire and tried to make our own little videos but they all sucked. Such good memories.
Honestly, I was always excited to see what new homepage there was, 'cause I know there were a bunch of them like when I discovered HSR in 2004, but it wasfun, after that, to see what they'd come up with next. But yeah, the Strongbad emails were my favorite part of the experience.
I remember watching loads of flash toons back in my early college days. Looking back I don't think it was so much that HSR was doing anything others weren't doing from like a technical or business approach, rather it was just they found something that had staying power creatively. I don't know that Happy Tree Friends or stuff like Salad Fingers aged quite so well. At least they didn't remain relevant in pop culture as long. Especially considering HSR is still making new content from time to time. Even Ill Will Press, which is still going, seems to have slid off to the side in the online pop culture sphere.
Tab. much how like we use Tab to type into fields on a webpage you could do it in the flash player and it would highlight objects you could press. the "cheat code" to finding the easter eggs
I loved HSR. I still quote it occasionally at work, just to remind myself how old I am. We'd keep hitting tab all through the second watch trying to find the easter eggs that were within the videos.
You're not alone... I work with one of my old friends who I used to watch it with...
The phrase "ooh ooh the email" is said more frequently that is healthy.
I have a HSR sweatshirt somewhere...
I remember when I first started watching Homestar Runner. I was working at a consulting company just starting to build web site applications. So much fun.
Dude, great ending scene! I think you also captured the feeling of exploring that was present in those early internet days. I don't think that'll ever return.
Love it, this is going to be a great series. For Homestar Runner, I think I was a sophomore in college. We'd watch it in the morning in the computer lab on HP 9000 UNIX systems while we worked on circuit layout!
I still remember getting my best friend the Strongbad Sings CD for his birthday as a kid. Must have been about 12 or 13. Good memories.
Home Star Runner was every day for me after school c 2001-2002 I was 15 and my friends and I would all go to my one friends house and watch these, and strongbad emails. We even downloaded a cracked copy of macromedia flash of line wire and tried to make our own little videos but they all sucked. Such good memories.
Homestar was my inspiration to try flash animation too.....it went poorly lol
Honestly, I was always excited to see what new homepage there was, 'cause I know there were a bunch of them like when I discovered HSR in 2004, but it wasfun, after that, to see what they'd come up with next. But yeah, the Strongbad emails were my favorite part of the experience.
You should add Fark and Slashdot to your list.
I remember watching loads of flash toons back in my early college days. Looking back I don't think it was so much that HSR was doing anything others weren't doing from like a technical or business approach, rather it was just they found something that had staying power creatively. I don't know that Happy Tree Friends or stuff like Salad Fingers aged quite so well. At least they didn't remain relevant in pop culture as long. Especially considering HSR is still making new content from time to time. Even Ill Will Press, which is still going, seems to have slid off to the side in the online pop culture sphere.
Come on, I'm still wrapping my head around the 90s being retro. I don't know if I can handle the 2000s being retro too!
...none of my young programmers know homestar...
There was a key you could hold down and when an Easter egg would pop up it would be highlighted with a yellow box. I think it was shift?
ohhhh.. I remember doing something....maybe shift...
Tab. much how like we use Tab to type into fields on a webpage you could do it in the flash player and it would highlight objects you could press. the "cheat code" to finding the easter eggs
K*llFrog. That was classic, with the Tone-Deaf Dumba*s Bass, a parody of the then popular (or infamous) Big Mouth Billy Bass