April 30, 2010

Ancient Wambooli Humor

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

Way back in the 1990s, when Wambooli and the web were still young, I concocted a series of bogus advertisements. For a while they appeared on the Wambooli site, and they looked typical of the web advertising back in the day.

Looking back, I’m surprised at how small they are, typically 350-by-50 pixels. But keep in mind that monitors had lower resolution back then as well, with 800-by-600 a typical resolution for a Windows user. So they probably looked bigger back in the day.

The ads were once manually updated by myself. Then I had an automated script, written in Perl, that would rotate them. Eventually the web host stopped supporting Perl, so I’d rotate them manually again.

A few revisions ago, I dropped them from the Wambooli page. They still exist on my computer, though. So here they are for your browsing enjoyment:

4 Comments

  1. That ad for Mao Mix has been one of my favorites. I always wanted to see the full color version of it after seeing it in PCs for Dummies, 5th edition 😛

    Comment by linuxlove — April 30, 2010 @ 6:08 am

  2. I found the MEGA gallery to be inspiring. I’d just flip it’s pages and find an image and instantly something crazy would pop into my head. I believe that’s how I did the Mao Mix ad. Thanks for liking it!

    Comment by admin — April 30, 2010 @ 6:47 am

  3. Just out of curiosity, why did you stop putting them on the site?

    Comment by gamerguy473 — April 30, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

  4. No place to put them. Also, they’re a bit dated. I’d have to make new ads to parody what’s out there now. That could be kind of fun . . . if I had the time…

    Comment by admin — April 30, 2010 @ 6:19 pm

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