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Aquillion: /* Explanation */ zombo.com was lost to a cybersquatter and no longer reflects the version that the comic refers to; updating link to a mirror.

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‎Explanation: zombo.com was lost to a cybersquatter and no longer reflects the version that the comic refers to; updating link to a mirror.

Firestar233 at 04:31, 13 February 2025

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Aaron Liu: /* Explanation */

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 The humor of the parody comes in substituting Facebook, a site that, at the time this comic was made, was a useful and popular website; for Zombo.com, a novelty site which gained attention for its complete uselessness.
-You can visit the site at [https://zombo.com zombo.com].
+The original site was lost to a domain squatter, but an HTML5 version of the historical site (as it existed at the time the comic came out) is archived at [https://html5zombo.com/ html5zombo.com].
 The last four panels are all direct parodies of specific scenes from ''The Social Network''. The second panel is a takeoff of the scene where Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg comes up with the idea for the site, saying that people like checking up on their friends and acquaintances, so why not build a site that lets them do that? Because Zombo.com has no actual function, in this version the founder can't specify what he wants the site to do.

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-<noinclude>:''This page refers to the comic named "1999". For comic #1999, see [[1999: Selection Effect]].''</noinclude>
+<noinclude>{{distinguish|1999: Selection Effect}}</noinclude>
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 ==Transcript==
 :It's easy to forget, as we heap awards on ''The Social Network'',
 :That before there was Facebook, MySpace, or even Friendster...

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic is a parody of the movie ''{{w|The Social Network}}'', a movie about the founding of the popular social network site Facebook. Here, scenes from the movie are reimagined to feature {{w|Zombo.com}} instead. Zombo.com, also known as Zombocom, is a website that was created in 1999 and using only {{w|Flash animations}}. The animation consists of a circle of quickly pulsating dots and a friendly deep male voice repeatedly welcoming the visitor to "Zombocom" and explaining that there was no limit to what could be done at the site, or rather, no limit except yourself. The message repeats while, ironically, there is absolutely nothing that can be done at the site until the message completes, at which point a link saying "Sign up for our newZletter" appears, linking to a page saying that the selected option is not available yet. If the link is not clicked, the Flash player will reset. Thus, you can still do nothing on the site.
+This comic is a parody of the movie ''{{w|The Social Network}}'', a movie about the founding of the popular social network site Facebook. Here, scenes from the movie are reimagined to feature {{w|Zombo.com}} instead. Zombo.com, also known as Zombocom, is a website that was created in 1999 and using only {{w|Flash animations}}. The animation consists of a circle of quickly pulsating dots and a friendly deep male voice repeatedly welcoming the visitor to "Zombocom" and explaining that there was no limit to what could be done at the site, or rather, no limit except yourself. The message, a parody of how sites of the time used a flash introduction while the rest of the site loaded, repeats while, ironically, there is absolutely nothing that can be done at the site until the message completes, at which point a link saying "Sign up for our newZletter" appears, linking to a page saying that the selected option is not available yet. If the link is not clicked, the Flash player will reset. Thus, you can still do nothing on the site.
 The humor of the parody comes in substituting Facebook, a site that, at the time this comic was made, was a useful and popular website; for Zombo.com, a novelty site which gained attention for its complete uselessness.