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Totally Random Website, Viral Marketing, or Something More Sinister?
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Nick
in Merrie Olde Englande
Apr 09, 2005
 http://www.zombo.com

what do we think?
Category: Website-Hoax; Replies: 16

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Winona
in USA
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 06:33 AM
There is a note in the source that directs you to 15footstick.com which seems to be a pretty useless little used page. smile I'm not entirely sure what they do, if anything.

You can contact them at:
"For General Questions:
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
or to contact our staff
Westside: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Eastside: Scott Gornick .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Southside: Elisa Faires .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)"

but I couldn't be bothered. smile
Hairy Houdini
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 06:39 AM
I have a first cousin named Tombo, so when I saw Zombo, I thought there might be some Tombo/Zombo connection, but no such luck, Tombo rules, Zombo sux
LaMa
in Europe
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 06:44 AM
I think I've seen this appear on the Newgrounds Flash portal one or two weeks ago.
Hairy Houdini
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 06:52 AM
I suppose this is as good a location to nominate my cousin Tombo to be Pope, as any other spot. Let the world rejoice: Pope Tombo likes to Mambo, so I select him, let them elect him, (mama loves Bombo)
Winona
in USA
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 07:00 AM
smile

Zombocom
1079
Occidental, CA 95465
US
Phone: 707-865-0449
Fax: 999-999-9999

Domain Name: 15FOOTSTICK.COM

Administrative Contact , Technical Contact :
Zombocom
ooaahh@YAHOO.COM
1079
Occidental, CA 95465
US
Phone: 707-865-0449
Fax: 999-999-9999
Rod
in the land of smarties.
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 07:27 AM
It's just a little site to drive someone nuts. You send them the link, and tell them "You've gotta see this. Wait for it to load, it takes a while."

...and hope that they don't shoot you when it's been five minutes of "Welcome to Zombocom. This is Zombocom."

It didn't bother my sister, she just said that it wouldn't load, so she went to another site.

I ran across it aboot a week ago, I'm not sure where the link I found was. Maybe BoredAtWork.com?
Silent Fish
in an endless forest of wooden chairs
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 10:16 AM
sounds a lot like worlds most annoying page 1, 2, and 3
Rochelle
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 10:56 AM
Have any of you waited for it to completely load? When it does the annoying voice stops and you have the option of buying zombo.com t-shirts or joining a newsletter. And then you're on the 15footstick website which, while it has more content, is not even as entertaining as zombo.com.
Rochelle
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 10:58 AM
Oh, and thanks for the links, Silent Fish. I actually clicked on 1 and 2 before I got smart enough to know that you don't have to click on a link called "annoying link" to know it's going to be an annoying link.
Silent Fish
in an endless forest of wooden chairs
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:09 AM
yes from 150 to 200 to 250 will drive you insane to tangle with another page more grueling than the one before
Rod
in the land of smarties.
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 11:34 AM
I made the mistake of opening all three links in Firefox tabs before I looked at any of them.

I also didn't want to shut down my browser, because I had other interesting links open, so I had to suffer through the whole damned three of them.

Silent Fish, you are EVIL.

LOL

I'm just glad that it didn't require input for every question. 250 question to which the matters don't answer WOULD drive me completely batshit.

(There, I said batshit to an eleven year old, Stephen, spank me!)

Maybe I should use one of these as my url...
grin
Silent Fish
in an endless forest of wooden chairs
 Member
Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 | 12:00 PM
it's ok I had to suffer them too in order to get the url, and the last I had to do twice since I accidently closed it
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
 Member
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 | 07:28 AM
...I created a page like that once. I stopped after 300. I didn't want to drive away the friends I had...

P.S. I didn't click, b/c I knew it would not be a helluva lot of fun.
Jen kibby
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 | 10:45 AM
I have seen some pretty random sites out there too. people have very creative imaginations
oyunlar
in istanbul
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 | 12:31 PM
I'm just glad that it didn't require input for every question. 250 question to which the matters don't answer WOULD drive me completely batshit.
Mr. Cat
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 | 07:30 PM
This site has been around since the dawn of the internet. I <3 zombo.com <3
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