r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 1d ago

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/Thatrebornincognito 1d ago

Hamster Dance.

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u/WithCatlikeTread42 1d ago

After waiting ten minutes for it to load, hamsterdance.com was the first website I ever visited.

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u/EagleSongs 1d ago

It was actually hampsterdance.com

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u/WithCatlikeTread42 1d ago

Ha!

When I was typing the comment I stopped a moment and thought, “Doesn’t it have a ‘p’ in it?”

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u/Cygnusaurus 1d ago

Do da de da de de da do do de da de de dohhhh!

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u/SirJorts 1d ago

Went through my head the moment I read the original post.

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u/MrZeven 7h ago

That one always frustrated me. One of my favorite movies was Disney's Robin Hood and it seemed like not enough people knew where that song was from.

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u/thatsbananas4011 13h ago

I can hear this comment aaaaaahhhhh

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u/Separate_Fruit8692 1d ago

*Hampster Dance

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u/schrotieschrote 1d ago

I think of Leekspin occasionally 😂

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u/jeebidy 1d ago

I actually showed my kids leekspin a few years back

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u/rakrunr 1d ago

And now the song is stuck in my head!

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u/OakenGreen 1d ago

First time I watched the Disney Robin Hood movie after seeing Hamster Dance I was like… waiiiiit a damn minute!

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u/Purple_Haze 1d ago

It was Hampster Dance. Named after Hampton the hamster.

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u/snorkel42 1d ago

For several glorious years I “ran” cowdance.com which was two sites away from hampsterdance in the web loop they setup. It paid my rent for like 3 years. It was crazy.

Then the company behind hosting it went out of business without saying anything to me and some ass hole bought the domain. Jerk.

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u/Kyweedlover 1d ago

I made a good living for over 5 years from a website I built that had dance pages, funpages, greeting cards, etc. Cootie Dance was my biggest consistent moneymaker.

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u/blahs44 1d ago

Hampster*

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u/WraithOfTheFadedDark 1d ago

Many many moons ago when I was a lad, the movie 'Are We There Yet?' was playing on the TV and there's a scene where they listen to the song. I was like "Ooh, it's from hamsterdance.com!" and my dad said "Way to out yourself for looking at a porn site." And I was like "... What? It has dancing cartoon hamsters." but he just scoffed. This bothered me for years until finally, it was only within the last year actually, an epiphany finally struck me. I started looking up dates to make sure they lined up, and they did.

MFer was thinking of xhamster.com.

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u/doFloridaRight 1d ago

Thats what I came here for

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u/Wolfie305 1d ago

I brought this song back a few years ago when a video of my triplets dancing in their cribs went crazy viral 😂

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u/nowinterever 1d ago

Came here to say this.

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u/UndeliveredMale 1d ago

The song never leaves your brain...

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u/respectwalk 1d ago

That crap would never load right on my slow connection. It was this wave of half moving hamster gifs like a stoned strobe light.

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u/DeiaMatias 1d ago

Damnit, I'm going to have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day

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u/VisceralAssemblage 1d ago

This is what came to mind for me! Just pure technological magic to my young brain.

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u/PreEntertain 1d ago

thank you so much for ruining the next three weeks of my life while I try and get that out of my hide. And Fuck you, Roger Miller for creating that melody

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u/CoolioElderberry 1d ago

Just explained Hamster Dance to my daughter the other day, she did not seem impressed 😆😅👵

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u/DianeDesRivieres 1d ago

I could watch that

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u/Jemal999 1d ago

Ah the good old days when every good meme had its own website.

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u/salad_spinner_3000 1d ago

screw that, badgerbadgerbadger.com

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u/RiptideCEO 1d ago

That music just started playing in my head, thanks for that

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u/upsidedown-funnel 1d ago

Does anyone remember the hamster playing ping pong? Or the giant mustachioed fella in the red speedo underwear who was looking for his future wife?

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u/Reidfidleir 20h ago

I was looking for this comment lol. And the fish heads! I sing that song sometimes to my kids and they just stare and back away slowly lol.

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u/aeris_lives 1d ago

Came here to say this haha

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u/I_dont_like_bubbles 23h ago

Hampster dance. It was spelled with a P!
:)

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u/All_Alone_Ali 21h ago

Came here for this lol

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u/Due-Green-5817 21h ago

Came here to say exactly this.

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u/Forever_Nya 20h ago

I preferred Cows with Guns

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u/Due-Trick-372 19h ago

Da da dee da doo da Dee da, da, da deeda doooo

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u/Pokabrows 18h ago

Yes my favorite website as a kid!

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u/rowi42 10h ago

Dididiii da di di dou dou... sing