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Blue Ball Machine

by pubby on 3/28/24, 9:07 PM with 126 comments

• by Jordan-117 on 4/2/24, 5:03 AM

  https://freecow.ytmnd.com/

  https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/

  https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/

  https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/

  https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/

  https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/

  https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/

  https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/

  My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/

• by metadat on 4/2/24, 5:59 AM

  Reminds me of https://floor796.com/

  Though floor796 is way more rich and interesting, and still receiving additions every few days.

• by PedroBatista on 4/2/24, 12:54 PM

  This is the visualization of my employer's Kubernetes deployment.

  How did they got access to it? Concerning..

• by speff on 4/2/24, 5:13 AM

  Went down a rabbithole of old ytmnds I used to keep in the background. It's nuts how ones I thought were super popular at the time had less than 100k total views to this day. Mid-00s internet was still such a small place.

• by smokinjoe on 4/2/24, 12:02 PM

  https://momspaghetti.ytmnd.com/

  One of the greatest contributions to humanity was the conversion of ytmnd from flash to html5

• by pixelatedindex on 4/2/24, 6:47 AM

  http://eeuauaughhhuauaahh.ytmnd.com/ https://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ https://picarddoesthetruffle.ytmnd.com/ (Epilepsy warning)

• by robohydrate on 4/2/24, 12:34 PM

  I think I remember seeing calls for pieces of this on the SomethingAwful forums back in the day, it was a collaborative art piece. There was a template with specific frames where the ball enters and leaves each square and it was up to forum members to fill in the rest and then it was all stitched together.

• by 2four2 on 4/2/24, 4:23 AM

  https://drecosby.ytmnd.com/

• by qingcharles on 4/2/24, 4:16 PM

  The only one that matters. The original that started it all:

  https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/

  And my favorite, which was probably the most popular one of all time:

  https://animated.ytmnd.com/

• by johnzim on 4/2/24, 4:54 AM

  https://epicgeordi.ytmnd.com

• by dorkwood on 4/2/24, 10:19 AM

  This started out on the Something Awful forums back in the early 2000s. They made a few more after this one was such a hit. I joined in one year, probably at about age 18, using a bootleg copy of Photoshop that I got at a LAN party. My contribution is floating around somewhere.

• by modeless on 4/2/24, 5:54 AM

  https://ualuealuealeuale.ytmnd.com/

• by neonroku on 4/2/24, 10:09 AM

  https://rockthetaskbar.ytmnd.com/

• by doctorpangloss on 4/2/24, 4:04 AM

  https://rainbowstalin5.ytmnd.com/

• by kirse on 4/2/24, 4:39 AM

  https://timetraveler.ytmnd.com/

• by binarymax on 4/2/24, 4:17 PM

  Congrats people we did it https://ytmnd.com/sites/top_viewed/today

• by meowface on 4/2/24, 7:50 AM

  https://cosbyclassic.ytmnd.com https://cosbybebop.ytmnd.com http://chococosby.ytmnd.com

• by geocrasher on 4/2/24, 4:31 AM

  Volume warning...

• by windows2020 on 4/2/24, 1:16 PM

  There exists an old game called "The Incredible Machine" where you create these.

• by elpool2 on 4/2/24, 4:19 PM

  I was responsible for drawing 1/25th of this gif back in the day. There was actually way more tiles created but this is one version that went viral. Crazy to see it still pop up like this every couple of years.

• by CarRamrod on 4/2/24, 4:47 AM

  https://brucecampbellstomatosoup.ytmnd.com/

• by donatj on 4/2/24, 1:45 PM

  I thought YTMND was shutting down?

  Also still my favorite:

  https://dumbworf.ytmnd.com/

• by taspeotis on 4/2/24, 7:11 AM

  https://mybrotherisadumbass.ytmnd.com/

• by autoexec-bat on 4/2/24, 3:09 PM

  https://putintheritzon.ytmnd.com/

• by wanderingjew on 4/2/24, 4:28 AM

  https://bmsir.ytmnd.com/

• by keketi on 4/2/24, 9:43 AM

  YTMND was the TikTok of its time.

• by yuters on 4/2/24, 1:57 PM

  Check out ROY4L's sites: https://ytmnd.com/users/ROY4L/sites

  My favorite creator on YTMND

• by ClosedPistachio on 4/4/24, 7:05 PM

  https://cslincoln.ytmnd.com/

• by higgins on 4/2/24, 4:11 AM

  YTMND, instant upvote

• by mehlvin on 4/2/24, 7:00 AM

  https://omgsecretnaziforest.ytmnd.com/

• by WatchDog on 4/2/24, 6:37 AM

  https://brownpaperbag.ytmnd.com/

• by post_break on 4/2/24, 3:44 PM

  https://iceskatinguphill.ytmnd.com

• by agos on 4/2/24, 7:26 AM

  https://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com

• by higgins on 4/2/24, 4:12 AM

  https://theocean.ytmnd.com/

• by nxobject on 4/2/24, 6:56 AM

  URLs you can hear...

• by dapf on 4/2/24, 10:14 AM

  I thought it was goin to be this: https://youtu.be/orBH_Qnw3eY

• by AndrewKemendo on 4/2/24, 2:07 PM

  I had no idea ytmnd still existed

  Another point for old web longevity

• by resource_waste on 4/2/24, 9:07 AM

  Part of me likes all the insanity with the internet back then, with mixed feelings.

  I probably got computer skills wasting time on YTMND for one reason or another.

  I 100% attribute 4chan's b for inspiring me to program. Their raids inspired me to learn programming when I was a teenager.

  But... I see that the alt-right came out of 4chan and the previously funny memes were no longer funny memes but serious accusations.

  Maybe its basic phenomenology, but I wish I could see these websites as I once did, funny and edgy. Today I feel like there was something a bit darker that corrupted many users.