Do you remember the viral phenomenon that was the CGI dancing baby? Last Saturday Jonathon Ross played Blue Swede’s Hooked on a Feeling, complete with the “oogashakas”, which I have to admit I liked at the time, and remembered THAT dancing baby.
It was huge; we’d never seen anything like it on the Internet and the cgi file “went viral” as fast as our 33.6k modems (if we were lucky!) would allow (it’s true – read the New Scientist’s article on the promised boost to speed at the time!)
One aspect of my job at the time was to monitor the emails being sent around the world within Coopers & Lybrand, as it was then, and admonishing anyone sending anything unnecessary – boy, would it clog up the modems, especially to more remote countries who might enjoy a daily 10-minute connection at extortionate cost. Mondays mornings would be spent on deleting emails with what were then considered huge files (some of which not for a lady’s eyes – I did rather enjoy telling off those senders).
Anyway – watching this small animation was exciting to us then, back in the old days. I wonder what we’ll be able to do in another 13 years…
My 2 yr old reminded me of the ooga chaka baby today with his dancing, it was a hoot to see it again after all these years. Scarey when you consider what changes have happened in such a short time.
Bless! I’ve since downloaded the song – the kids seems to like it – and reminded some friend of the “baby” – I’d forgotten that some found it spooky, and still do!
And yes, it’s wonderful how far we’ve come and that this was so “cutting edge” – my kids find that hard to understand – for them this is stone age stuff.
we are doing website in my technology class and my teacher told me bout the dancing baby so i looked it up and he was really excited to see it again after 20 years so i got like 50 extra credit points for having it on there.
I’m so pleased about that, Heather. Good luck with the website – let me know when it’s live, if you like.