Cnet’s Top 10 Web fads
Friday, July 22nd, 2005Take a trip down memory lane, with this Top 10 of Web Fads, All Your Base Belong To Us, Mahir and more… OK listen up, I once partied with Mahir himself!! 
he was a really nice guy, and also mighty famous because of his cult website.
Internet phenomena. Memes. Grist for the e-mail forwarding mill. Whatever you call them, Web fads are entertaining, unintended consequences of life on the World Wide Web. Once the masses could put anything online easily, they turned up weird fetishes, hilarious parody, jaw-dropping narcissism, and moments of brilliance. And over the past 10 years, some of these ideas broke through to the mainstream. Whether it was dancing hamsters, a kid enjoying his day as a Jedi Knight, or the sudden ability to publish your thoughts online with just a few simple clicks, the following 10 Web fads still make us laugh, make us wonder, or make us feel guilty enough to update our blogs.
