Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Twenty years ago, we didn’t even have a term for “viral” or even “meme.” But hampsterdance was both, and more than that. You couldn’t go online without encountering the pixelated hamsters dancing to Roger Miller singing in double time. The story of how hampsterdance was born, soared higher and higher, and then went down in history is more dramatic and complicated than you ever knew.
It started when Deidre LaCarte felt the temptation to draw as many people as possible to her Geocities website. She was in competition with her sister and Hazel Steenman. Then things got out of hand.Deidre LaCarte: Not everybody had access to the…
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