People getting their ass beat, movie quote compilation videos, unwilling participants in pranks, homemade stunts gone wrong, people getting hit by cars, and celebs gone wild was just some of the content featured on this site. If you wanted to see the best and worst the real world had to offer on the web, it was on Ebaum’s even if it was on YTMND, Youtube, or World Star first. They were sick, unedited, unfiltered, and usually a mess. Homemade gross out videos were another popular upload onto Ebaum’s World. It worked if you stumbled upon enough gullible people, a quite frequent occurrence in the 2000’s. You could use a variety of soundboards to mess around with people at work, get a laugh out of it, or my personal pre- teen/teen favorite, prank calling. You gotta respect the effort that these “contributors” put into “The Farting Machine” soundboard so that 1.4 million people (and counting) could use it. Imagine how much time it took in 2007 to lift all that audio and make it into a soundboard. Evil, and Michael Jackson soundboards on this site. There are multiple Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dr. Popular celebrities like AL Pacino had soundboards full of movie quotes and more all over Ebaum’s. It gave all of us a place to see shit we should not have seen but wanted to see along with the most random stuff you could think of. Kids, teens, and adults could care less and loved it though. It was so hated that there was a song made to shit on it called ebaumsworldsucks. Not the best way to get on the good side of other popular websites at the time. Ebaum’s watermarked all those previously posted videos and all videos that made it onto the site in general. Other blogs hated it because Ebaum’s “contributors” lifted content for their own content posted on the site. Did I mention most of it was “stolen”? Corporations like Viacom hated it and threatened to sue it for copyright infringement a million times. It featured pure chaos and (mostly “stolen”) audio and videos from other sites, tv, home videos, music, movies, etc. A site made by a father and son, Neil and Eric Bauman, this site was its own Florida on the 2000’s internet. Some of these sites are still around, ones that you might remember, and both might give you a little nostalgia.Įbaum’s World is a perfect example of a site that was a precursor to many happenings on the internet today. Below, we are going to dive into a couple sites that shaped the Internet as we know it today. Go to the 2nd page and it took what you were looking for to another level. Type in the craziest thing into Ask Jeeves (remember that?), AOL, and even Google and the first couple results were usually exactly what you were looking for. It was a censorship free anything goes attitude where you could find whatever you wanted with ease. The late 90’s and 2000’s was the wild west for the internet. For better or for worse, the internet is where we go to get a lot of our information, ideas, and more. You got to experience the world before the world wide web, smart phones, and social media came crashing into our lives. All jokes aside, if you are under the age of 40, the internet has probably been a part of your daily life for most of your life. If you cannot find what you are looking somewhere on the internet, then what is going on here? We have had since the early 1990’s to learn how to use this thing. A place where you experience information (or misinformation), chaos, and can find almost anything you are looking for. With almost 5 billion users, a little over 198 million active websites, and 1.86 billion websites overall, the internet is huge.
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